Showing posts with label UK Tech News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UK Tech News. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Friday, January 18, 2013

NASA sends the Mona Lisa to the Moon



NASA has turned the Mona Lisa into the first digital image to be transmitted via laser beam from Earth to a spacecraft in lunar orbit, nearly 240,000 miles away, thanks to a technology that may soon become routine.

The experiment took advantage of the laser-tracking system that's in operation aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been circling the moon for the past three and a half years. NASA sends regular laser pulses from the Next Generation Satellite Ranging station at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland to the space probe's Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter, or LOLA, to measure its precise position in lunar orbit.

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Program developer OUTSOURCED his JOB to China to goof off at work

"Bob's" frequent video choice

A security audit of a US critical infrastructure company last year revealed that its star developer had outsourced his own job to a Chinese subcontractor and was spending all his work time playing around on the internet.

The firm's telecommunications supplier Verizon was called in after the company set up a basic VPN system with two-factor authentication so staff could work at home. The VPN traffic logs showed a regular series of logins to the company's main server from Shenyang, China, using the credentials of the firm's top programmer, "Bob".

Friday, January 11, 2013

Human Settlement on Mars in 2023



Humans might not have landed on Mars yet - but you can already apply to be one of the first to colonize its surface.

Only problem? You'll never come back.

Mars One, a Netherlands-based non-profit, has the lofty aim of reaching our nearest neighbouring planet in 2023.