Google and Slooh have partnered up to bring everyone live coverage of today’s 100-minute long lunar eclipse. The eclipse itself is expected to start at around 2:20PM Eastern, 11:20AM Pacific. Check out the video above.
If you’re looking for a little extra interaction, you can also check out Slooh’s mission interface website “with …
With Amazon and Google recently launching their own daily deals sites to compete with Groupon and LivingSocial, you might be forgiven for thinking that we’re living in a golden age of savings and reasonably priced offerings. A new study had a message for those who might feel that way: Enjoy it while you can, because it’s not likely to …
This big asteroid, called Vesta, doesn’t look THAT scary. Then again, it’s 300,000 miles away from the camera. I’m sure it’d look a whole lot scarier from, say, 30,000 miles away. And 3,000 miles away? No thanks.
As a tech guy that doesn’t normally cover space stuff, though, I’d say Vista was a hell of a lot scarier than Vesta, but …
Just a week after passing a law that made it illegal to share passwords to subscription entertainment sites, the state of Tennessee has taken the lead in addressing pressing legal matters again by outlawing the transmission of any image that may upset… well, anyone, really.
The law, passed on Friday, makes it an offense to …
NATO has poked the bear of the internet (which responded by announcing that it’s actually a hydra).
Anthropomorphic confusion aside, a NATO security report about “Anonymous”—the mysterious “hacktivist” group responsible for attacks on MasterCard, Visa, PayPal, Amazon and, most recently, Sony—has led the underground group to …
You may trust Comcast to provide you with your television, phone and internet, but would you trust the company to keep your house safe? After a trial in Houston last year, Comcast will announce today that it plans to expand its Xfinity Home Security service to six additional cities throughout the U.S., offering customers not only piece …
If you’re worried about being attacked by computer hackers, here’s a curious piece of information that might put your mind at ease: 25% of them are working for the FBI.
The Guardian newspaper has discovered that one in four hackers is an FBI informer as part of a recent investigation, with many forums where hackers sell illegally …
History, they say, is written by the winners. Luckily for fans of former Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin, the same can’t be said about Wikipedia.
After famously mangling the story of Paul Revere when she visited Boston last week – instead of riding to warn the colonists that the British were coming, Palin said that he warned the …
Earlier this week, it was Google that was launching a local daily deals program, and now Amazon is getting in on the discounted action with the announcement of AmazonLocal’s launch in Boise, Idaho.
Like Google Offers and other similar sites, AmazonLocal will offer discounts on local products, services and experiences through a daily …
Not a fan of being asked to support various causes on Facebook? Statistically, that suggests that you’re a white male, according to a new study carried out by Georgetown University’s Center for Social Impact Communication and Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide. Two thousand Americans above the age of 18 took part in the survey towards the …
Despite Apple, Mozilla and Microsoft all signing onto Do Not Track, Google remains curiously quiet on plans to add the ability for users to tell advertisers and publishers that they’d rather information on their browsing not be stored. The reason why, according to the man in charge of the company’s legal privacy matters? Because Google …
Once again, leave it to hackers to turn something trivial and fun into something useful. A group of French hackers have repurposed a Kinect to become, as they call it, “a gesture recognition system” – in other words, something that can potentially read and translate sign language.
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