Wired’s Threat Level blog attended this year’s DefCon in Vegas and they managed to get the first ever photo tour of the Defcon Network Operations Center. Pretty awesome stuffs..check out more photos on Wired…
An interview with Sir Clive Sinclair by the BBC, where he talks about everything from from flying electric cars to Eee PC’s, his view of the internet, and the development of the computer.
Firefox 3 now officially hold a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours. 8,002,530 people downloaded Firefox 3 from 8:16 UTC on June 17, 2008 to 18:16 UTC on June 18.
There are now over 180 million Firefox users in more than 230 countries.
As a software developer i would always brain storming ideas first on papers, nothing fancy, just plain old papers. It’s fantastic to see Deeplinking has collected sketches that were to become Twitter, Flickr, Vimeo, Abiword, and mySociety.
New technology has allowed scientists from the Condom Consultancy in Germany to invent a new spray on condom that is tailor made to a man’s most treasured asset in seconds, 20-25 seconds to be exact.
European airlines are prototyping a ‘Big Brother’ type system, where spy cams are placed in every passenger’s seat, together with some sort of “terrorism detection” software, they are able to detect developing terrorist activity in-flight.
San Francisco based entrepreneur and blogger Loic Le Meur wrote an interesting post on his personal blog about social media and the decentralized way in which personal information was being spread.
Singgih Kartino has created wooden radios for a company called Areaware; this new version is much smaller than his previous medium sized radio. Not only can the radio tune to your favorite country and western station, it can also plug into your Mp3 player.