There was much speculation whether this would be the first million dollar Rolex, and yes indeed the record setting Rolex wristwatch sold for $1,163,340 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Christchurch man Glenn Martin says he has realised a 30-year dream, with his company setting a new record for a jetpack flight.
The Martin Aircraft Company says it sent a crash-test dummy a kilometre into the air over the South Island and successfully completed a parachute landing — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Draw shapes, modify spacing, adjust kerning, compare font weights and glyph variations all in the same view mode. See your letterforms as live text before exporting the font — via Glyphs
Google made headlines when it went public with the fact that Chinese hackers had penetrated some of its services, such as Gmail, in a politically motivated attempt at intelligence gathering. The news here isn’t that Chinese hackers engage in these activities or that their attempts are technically sophisticated — we knew that already — it’s that the US government inadvertently aided the hackers.
In order to comply with government search warrants on user data, Google created a backdoor access system into Gmail accounts. This feature is what the Chinese hackers exploited to gain access — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The network of defense contractor Lockheed-Martin was attacked using counterfeit electronic keys. Since the RSA Security network was hacked and the keys to its SecurID tokens were compromised a few months ago, the world has been waiting for the proverbial other shoe to drop. Well, it dropped — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Are you looking for the perfect plush toy for your favorite little monster? You need the My First Cthulhu from the NeatoShop. Abject terror has never looked so cute and cuddly. This is destined to be your budding science fiction lover’s favorite toy — via Neatorama
The Marshfield man who told authorities he came to town with a gun, bullets and plans to kill an abortion doctor was charged Friday with attempted first-degree intentional homicide in Dane County Circuit Court — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A woman’s attempt to sell a purported $1.7 million moon rock was thwarted last week when the buyer she met with turned out to be an undercover agent working for NASA — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Internet powerhouse Google has launched an ambitious project to collect panoramic images across India’s chaotic jumble of traffic jams and shanty towns to add to its Street View service — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Researchers from the CSIRO have used laser technology to discover how much methane gas cows in northern Australia expel each day — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Scientists have discovered that the Northern Territory’s great desert skink is the only one of the world’s 5,000 species of lizard that builds a home for its family — via redwolf.newsvine.com
US actor Jeff Conaway, known for his roles in the television series Taxi and the movie Grease, has died after being in a coma for several days due to a suspected overdose — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Some of the recent scams that used bogus security alerts in a bid to frighten Mac users into purchasing worthless security software appear to have been the brainchild of ChronoPay, Russia’s largest online payment processor and something of a pioneer in the rogue anti-virus business.
Since the beginning of May, security firms have been warning Apple users to be aware of new scareware threats like MacDefender and Mac Security. The attacks began on May 2, spreading through poisoned Google Image Search results. Initially, these attacks required users to provide their passwords to install the rogue programs, but recent variants do not, according to Mac security vendor Intego — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australian banks have cancelled thousands of credit cards following a security breach involving the credit card facilities of a local merchant.
The Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, St George, and National Australia Bank have all either blocked or cancelled credit cards following the breach — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Consumer group Choice is challenging retailers’ claims that internet sales are cutting into profits.
It says some companies use technological barriers to stop customers buying cheaper goods online.
Choice says the technological barriers include region coding, bans on international IP addresses, and pushing consumers to local
websites where it says prices are higher than overseas — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Dogs can help reduce stress in parents of children with lifelong developmental disability autism, a study suggests.
The University of Lincoln compared 20 families with dogs with 20 without.
Daniel Mills told a Royal Society of Medicine conference early results suggested any breed could improve communication and relationships — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The brains of people with autism are chemically different to those without autism, according to researchers.
A study, published in the journal Nature, showed the unique characters of the frontal and temporal lobes had disappeared.
Different genes should be active in each region, but autistic brains had the same pattern of gene expression.
The National Autistic Society said the results could be important for future treatments — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Californian team say they have managed to convert human skin cells directly into functioning brain cells.
The scientists manipulated the process by which DNA is transcribed within foetal skin cells to create cells which behaved like neurons.
The technique had previously been demonstrated in mice, says the report in Nature.
It could be used for neurological research, and might conceivably be used to create brain cells for transplant — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Imagine for a moment that you are going through divorce or separation and you fear that your ex-partner is harming your children.
You seek help from community services who advise you to remove your children from harm’s way, but you are prevented from doing so because your ex-partner has shared custody ordered by the Family Court. You go back to court to review shared parenting, but a lack of evidence results in your ex-partner retaining unsupervised access. Your children remain at risk of ongoing harm. Unfortunately, this scenario is not an isolated case.
That’s why three major inquiries into the ability of the family law system to respond to family violence were conducted by the Australian Institute of Family Studies, Family Law Council and Family Law Reform Professor Richard Chisholm. They concluded that the Family Law Act and its principle of equal shared parenting were unintentionally undermining the legislation’s clear aim to protect children from child abuse, neglect and exposure to domestic violence — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Melbourne student has discovered a part of the universe that astrophysicists have spent decades trying to find.
Undergraduate student Amelia Fraser-McKelvie, 22, was on a summer scholarship at Monash University when she managed to crack a mystery that until now had baffled scientists — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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