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Stewart David Nozette, 52, a prominent scientist from the United States, has recently been arrested and charged with espionage. During his career, he worked at the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Pentagon and NASA, and regularly had access to documen... |
20 October 2009
05:34 GMT |
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The Pentagon has lately taken a very active interest in telepathy research, and has started pumping millions of dollars in funding of “silent communication techniques.” The goal is to create soldiers that are able to better coordinate their actions, without having to go through the inconveniences of telec... |
15 May 2009
09:46 GMT |
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A group of hackers has yet again managed to infiltrate the firmware inside the Pentagon and to get away with an undisclosed number of terabytes of sensitive data. It's not yet clear who has been behind the infiltration, but the US government and publications such as the Wall Street Journal have already begun to ... |
21 April 2009
09:38 GMT |
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The Internet environment, as far as hacker attacks go, has come a long way since the early days, when a single individual would try to hack into a secure network just for the fun of the experience. Over the past few years, cyberattacks have become a very effective way of targeting an enemy nation, without actually ha... |
16 March 2009
11:52 GMT |
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Basically, a gravitational wave is a “ripple” in the universal space-time continuum, which occurs when an establish magnetic field, let's say somewhere far away in space, is disturbed by a wandering giant star, which makes the field “wobble” and sends the ripples in all directions. Theore... |
19 December 2008
09:38 GMT |
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You would think that if you looked really hard, some science book would eventually provide the answer to any question you might have. But this is not the case, and we're not talking about life-long mysteries like whether God exists or the precedence of the chicken and the egg. The simple questions such as why we... |
3 December 2008
10:39 GMT |
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Usually, destroying nuclear weaponry facilities or biochemical weapon laboratories poses even more threat to a hefty amount of the surrounding regions because it would spread their content around, provoking exactly what it is trying to avoid – large scale damage. But Pentagon seems to be deeply interested in em... |
21 November 2008
14:31 GMT |
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The citizens of Maryland are discontented by the US Army's constant failure to respect the timetable imposed last year by the Environmental Protection Agency for cleaning up the polluting mess. Although army officials claim they take care of it, they say they're doing it at their own pace. The Pentagon reso... |
17 October 2008
10:10 GMT |
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Supporters of Gary McKinnon, the English hacker who is to be extradited to the US for trial, have arranged for a protest to take place today at 4 P.M. at the Home Office in London. The governmental division responsible for the prevention of “terrorism, crime and anti-social behavior” is, apparently, the l... |
2 September 2008
10:29 GMT |
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Intel's Pat Gelsinger stated in a recent interview with the German tech site heise.de that the original Pentium core design had been used as the base of the processor cores featured by Intel's forthcoming Larrabee GPU. Larrabee proves to be a bunch of P54C Pentium cores, pre-MMX, which make the foundation o... |
9 July 2008
04:22 GMT |
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Chip manufacturer Sun Microsystems has just received a $44 million contract from the Pentagon to research on viable light replacements for the standard copper interconnects between chips. According to the chip manufacturer, the Sun researchers have found a method to reconnect the chips in such a manner that would all... |
24 March 2008
12:18 GMT |
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Every year, the annual report on China's military power that the Pentagon presents before the U.S. Congress is met with criticism by the Asian country, and every year the US say that they are worried by the advancement level the rival power has achieved. That's the backbone of what has been going on, the me... |
10 March 2008
12:46 GMT |
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A Google team entered the Fort Sam Houston army base in Texas and mapped everything, but the Mountain View-based company spokesman, Larry Yu, said that it was only a mistake. Naturally, the army had to take measures towards this possible security threat in the future, so it banned Google map-makers from filming and c... |
7 March 2008
20:06 GMT |
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This was clearly the week of the cyberwar as there were so many news about it and so many people panicking and agitating on this matter. It all started with a piece of news that appeared in the Financial Times - the Pentagon had been hacked in June and some parts of its computer system had been taken down. Hacker tra... |
9 September 2007
09:46 GMT |
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Yes, it's true - they were hit by hackers and damaged. The Pentagon had to shut down part of a computer system serving the defense secretary, because of the cyber-attack. The thing is that it all leads to hackers based in China. But is this really true? Black-hatters often use several programs to cover their tr... |
4 September 2007
04:29 GMT |
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Oh my God! They chopped AT-AT! Hold your Aibo's puppies and run! In case you're wondering who AT-AT is, this means you're not real Star Wars fans. Anyway, I am talking about the All Terrain Armored Transport, a four legged transport and combat vehicle used by the imperial ground forces. They stand 15 m... |
19 July 2007
08:17 GMT |
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Google Earth is an interesting tool for looking at various places in the world that you haven't visited yet. It's true that some pictures are clearer than others, depending on the country and frankly, nobody would expect to see a picture of a village in Somalia as clear as the one of the Eiffel Tower.But n... |
6 July 2007
03:23 GMT |
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The spy panties may sound like something out of a bad spy movie, but it's actually as real as they come. You can now track your girlfriend/wife wherever she goes and even know if she's cheating on you, without her knowing about it.If you're the jealous type, or just paranoid, you can keep track of you... |
3 July 2007
10:39 GMT |
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Google's representatives offered a funny reply to the recently imposed ban for the US soldiers looking for entertainment content on YouTube. Earlier this week, the Pentagon blocked YouTube on all the computers connected to the Defense Department network because they regarded the website as a loss of bandwidth. H... |
18 May 2007
15:56 GMT |
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The Pentagon recently opened a new YouTube channel to help the local authorities fight against virtual war that shows the Americans as the Iraq's bad guys. Because the cyberspace is now hosting the war between the users from all around the world, The Pentagon decided to make a clever move and open a YouTube chan... |
10 May 2007
16:16 GMT |
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