Bummer, it looks like the space shuttle Endeavour’s Friday afternoon launch has been called off, last minute, due to technical issues.
Shuttle Launch Director Mike Leinbach has scrubbed today’s STS-134 launch attempt because of an issue associated with Auxiliary Power Unit 1 heaters. There will be at least a
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Uh-oh, did hackers make off with your financial data in Sony’s PlayStation Network fiasco after all?
Sony recently claimed it was pretty sure–though not hermetically certain–that whoever poked around its PlayStation Network between April 17th and 19th didn’t make off with credit card data. Personal info like names, addresses, and …
We’re now a full week and two days into the PlayStation Network outage, and Sony’s stepping up its public relations campaign, posting the second in a new question and answer series.
The good news first, because there isn’t any bad news (or at least none Sony’s ready to share): your download history, friends lists, and PSN settings …
From Amazon’s cloud collapse to Sony’s PlayStation Network catastrophe, it’s been one of those weeks, and it just got measurably worse: Imagine the personal info of over 21,000 New York Yankees ticket holders–names, account numbers, addresses and more–suddenly splashed around the Internet.
Or don’t, because that’s just …
So it’s come down to this: Two space shuttle launches until the entire fleet’s mothballed. Tomorrow’s launch of space shuttle Endeavour counts as second-to-last, before space shuttle Atlantis takes the stage in late June for the fleet’s swan song voyage.
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How did they know? What did they know? When did they know? You won’t get satisfactory answers to those questions, but you may gain insight into others with a new question and answer blog series about the PlayStation Network fiasco, launched last night by Sony spokesperson Patrick Seybold.
While Sony has yet to apologize to …
It’s YouTube co-founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley to the rescue, snapping up social bookmarking website Delicious.com from Yahoo and underwriting its future. The site had been marked for “sunsetting” by Yahoo per a leaked slide last December, prompting much indignation from Delicious buffs. Yahoo reacted by releasing a FAQ denying the …
Well we can’t say we didn’t see this coming: the first (of presumably many) class action lawsuits was just filed by a California law firm seeking “remedy for over 70 millon consumers arising out of one of the largest data breaches in the history of the Internet.”
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You have to sympathize with Sony. Rebuilding the PlayStation Network ground up with a gun to the head was never in the cards. And like any company suffering a sudden, mammoth, shocking customer data breach, it couldn’t have imagined events playing out quite like this.
That’s what caused this mess in the first place, of course. …
Your worldwide network hacked, your online service in shambles, over 75 million user accounts compromised, US Senators writing letters scolding you for keeping mum longer than you should’ve–if Sony’s had worse weeks, I couldn’t name one.
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Apple gives us plenty to complain about, but one thing I wouldn’t is the graceful design of my 13-inch mid-2010 MacBook Pro. It aces both form and function, a rare (well, not so rare if you’re Apple) technology coup. A year on, it’s still ultra-quick, reasonably light and portable, and a joy to work on (it better be when you’re …
You’re cruising round the moon, all engines go, having the time of your life, and then you notice your fuel needle’s jittering dangerously close to “E.” Tap-tap-tap, but no, it’s not stuck, and you’re about to discover how far past “E” the needle goes. What do you do?
Trade up for a spacecraft that uses a glass cockpit, for …
