Topic: food - on September 29, 2013 at 3:06:00 PM CEST
Pasta-maker in hot water as rival posts pro-gay imagery on social media
Spaghetti wars have broken out in Italy as rivals of the world's leading pasta-maker were this weekend taking full advantage of a row over homophobia to promote their own pro-gay credentials.
Bertolli Germany has been posting pro-gay imagery on its social media feeds, pushing the slogan "Love and pasta for all" and encouraging the re-emergence of a 2009 advert that featured a male customer in a pasta restaurant falling for a handsome waiter.
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Topic: SECURITY - on September 29, 2013 at 3:04:00 PM CEST
N.S.A. Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. Citizens
Since 2010, the National Security Agency has been exploiting its huge collections of data to create sophisticated graphs of some Americans’ social connections that can identify their associates, their locations at certain times, their traveling companions and other personal information, according to newly disclosed documents and interviews with officials.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on September 27, 2013 at 3:39:00 PM CEST
15 Jahre Google – 15 Google Meilensteine
Happy Birthday, Google – 15 Jahre wirst Du heute alt und hast in diesen eineinhalb Dekaden unser aller Welt verändert, egal ob man Dich nun mag oder nicht. Wir gratulieren und schauen anlässlich des Jubiläums auf 15 Meilensteine des Unternehmens.
Wenn man sich durch die Geschichte des Unternehmens ackert, wird einem – mir erging es zumindest so – erst einmal klar, was die Jungs seid ihrer Gründung auf die Beine gestellt haben und wie viele Dienste und Angebote man an den Start gebracht hat, von denen nicht wenige auch heute noch elementar wichtig für Milliarden Menschen sind. So mag es auch sein, dass bei der Auswahl von 15 Meilensteinen jeder vielleicht andere 15 ausgewählt hätte – hier ist unsere Wahl:
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Topic: NEWS english - on September 27, 2013 at 2:59:00 PM CEST
Paul Karason, Real-life 'Blue Man,' Dies at 62
Paul Karason, who was known for having skin that was blue, passed away after suffering a heart attack at the age of 62. He became famous when coming forward to discuss his unique condition, the result of taking medication no longer approved for treatment.
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Topic: SECURITY - on September 27, 2013 at 2:58:00 PM CEST
Research detects dangerous malware hiding in peripherals
A Berlin researcher has demonstrated the capability to detect previously undetectable stealthy malware that resides in graphics and network cards.
Patrick Stewin's proof of concept demonstrated that a detector could be built to find the sophisticated malware that ran on dedicated devices and attacked direct memory access (DMA).
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Topic: SECURITY - on September 27, 2013 at 2:57:00 PM CEST
Cyberstalker: So schnüffelten NSA-Überwacher Geliebten hinterher
Eifersucht, Kontrollwahn, Voyeurismus: Die NSA veröffentlicht nun Details zu Fällen, in denen Mitarbeiter die Überwachungssysteme missbrauchten. Die Hemmschwelle war gering. Die meisten, die Geliebte oder Wildfremde ausspionierten, kamen mit milden Strafen davon.
Fünf Jahre lang spioniert ein Mitarbeiter der National Security Agency (NSA) eine Frau aus, mit der er Sex hat. Mit einer Spähsoftware überwacht der NSA-Agent alle ihre Anrufe. Die Frau arbeitet für die US-Regierung im Ausland. Sie schöpft Verdacht und erzählt einem Kollegen, dass sie glaube, überwacht zu werden. Eine Untersuchung ergibt, dass der NSA-Mitarbeiter nicht nur ihre, sondern insgesamt neun Rufnummern von Frauen überwacht und deren Gespräche belauscht hat.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on September 26, 2013 at 5:38:00 PM CEST
Street View arrives at CERN
At CERN, the European particle physics laboratory based in the suburbs of Geneva, some of the world’s best physicists and engineers are using advanced particle accelerators to help solve age old questions about the universe — What is is made of? How did it start?
We’re delighted that CERN opened its doors to Google Maps Street View allowing anyone, anywhere in the world to take a peek into its laboratories, control centers and its myriad underground tunnels housing cutting-edge experiments. Street View also lets scientists working on the experiments, who may be on the other side of the world, explore the equipment they're using.
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Topic: SPORT - on September 26, 2013 at 5:36:00 PM CEST
Verwirrspiel am 16er: Der Freistoß-Trick des Jahrhunderts
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 26, 2013 at 3:24:00 PM CEST
Man Tried Floating to U.S. on Bag of Pot
A man was arrested off the coast of San Diego trying to swim into the U.S. while floating on a duffle bag full of pot, officials said.
U.S. Border Patrol Agents arrested the unidentified man Sept. 19 after spotting him approximately 600 yards from shore just north of the U.S./Mexico border.
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Topic: health - on September 26, 2013 at 3:21:00 PM CEST
Chinese Man Needs New Nose, Gets A Head Start
It's as plain as the nose on your... forehead? Doctors treating a young Chinese man whose nose suffered irreversible damage following an auto accident are growing him a replacement. Since it seems a mouse wasn't available, they're growing Xiaolian's new honker just above his left eye.
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Topic: NEWS english - on September 26, 2013 at 3:19:00 PM CEST
Somebody Stole 7 Milliseconds From the Federal Reserve
Three to seven milliseconds before the fed moved interest rates, billions of dollars of trades were input that took advantage of the changed rates, reaping huge profits. According to a report at Mother Jones, 'Last Wednesday, the Fed announced that it would not be tapering its bond buying program. This news was released at precisely 2 pm in Washington 'as measured by the national atomic clock.' It takes 7 milliseconds for this information to get to Chicago. However, several huge orders that were based on the Fed's decision were placed on Chicago exchanges 2-3 milliseconds after 2 pm. How did this happen?'
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Topic: WEB - on September 25, 2013 at 5:20:00 PM CEST
Emulator of the first "readily accessible" web browser
The line-mode browser, launched in 1993, was the first readily accessible browser for what we now know as the world wide web. It was not, however, the world's first web browser. The very first web browser was called WorldWideWeb and was created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990.
But WorldWideWeb only worked on the NeXT operating system. WorldWideWeb was a great piece of software, but it was important that the web should be accessible to many kinds of computers, not just NeXT machines.
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