A woman who sent spoof photographs taken at the edge of the Grand Canyon to tease her anxious mother has found the images have gone viral on social networks. Samantha Busch, a 22-year-old from Illinois, asked her boyfriend to take the shot, which suggests she is about to tumble from a cliff-edge into the chasm […]
Australian government tops list of internet domain name complaints
Australia’s government is lodging more warnings than any other government in the world against top level domain name applications, reinforcing its reputation as an over-regulator of the internet. Out of 243 “early warnings” against domain applications, the Australian government lodged 129 — more than half. The period of evaluation for applications for top-level domains began […]
Software version number no guarantee of security
The message is simple: don’t trust Android version numbers in vulnerability assessments. Enterprises that rely on Android version numbers to determine if bring-your-own mobile devices are patched and secure for enterprise use should think again, according to new research. Usually, when a new version of Android or any software is released, it is expected that […]
Paris banishes motoring’s ancien regime
Old cars, motorcycles and trucks are to be banned from Paris under a plan to cut pollution that opponents claim is “anti-social, anti-suburban and anti-motorist”. Under proposals presented to the city council on Monday, Bertrand Delanoe, the Socialist mayor, intends to outlaw by September 2014 the use of cars and utility vehicles more than 17 […]
Toyota tests cars that communicate with each other
Toyota Motor Corp is testing car safety systems that allow vehicles to communicate with each other and with the roads they are on in a just completed facility in Japan the size of three baseball stadiums. The cars at the Intelligent Transport System site receive information from sensors and transmitters installed on the streets to […]
Immigrants get stuck trying to drive over border fence
Hapless immigrants who tried a novel way of entering the United States – by driving a car over the US-Mexico border fence on makeshift ramps – failed when the vehicle got stuck on top. Two people fled back into Mexico after US border guards spotted the bold attempt to scale the four-metre-high fence in the […]
Teenager uses pigtail power to defeat her school bullies
One of Maisie Kate Miller’s classmates always had something belittling to say – about her body, her boyfriend, her fashion choices. But that last little dig, no big deal in itself, brought the 15-year-old at Marblehead High, north of Boston, to tears a couple of weeks ago. On the stairs behind her, the other girl, […]
New Yorkers write resiliency in capital letters
Resilient New Yorkers would more than bounce back from Hurricane Sandy, the mayor who steered the city through the aftermath of September 11 terrorist attacks has said in Sydney. Rudy Giuliani, in Sydney for a Property Council event on Wednesday, admitted to being “somewhat distracted” by the emergency at home. “The property damage, loss of […]
The kiss that photobombed a president
It’s possibly the most memorable first kiss in history. Most of the young students at Daughter of Zion Junior Academy in Florida understandably thought US President Barack Obama was the most interesting thing in the room as he sat down to pose for a surprise group photo yesterday. But for a boy in the back […]
Cassette to iPod converter
Vinyl will always be considered classic, but VHS and audio cassettes have sadly gone the way of the dinosaurs, with MiniDiscs (remember them?), and maybe one day CDs, soon to follow. While CD quality sound is universally recognized as being superior to MP3 music, and despite MiniDiscs still hanging on in Japan years after the […]