Yahoo has spent 2 years and over $2 billion buying search companies Overture and Inktomi, and has now replaced the back-end of the Yahoo search to use its own technology, instead of those of rival Google. Yahoo is not disclosing its search algorithm, but in a statement the company says its anti-spam technology will help Read More
On January 13, Astronomers around the world believed that a newly discovered asteroid, 30m in diameter, had a 1 in 4 chance of hitting the Earth within the following 36 hours, somewhere in the northern hemisphere. An object that size would not be a “planet killer” but it would explode in the atmosphere, causing considerable Read More
Pepsi’s now infamous Superbowl commercial featuring 16 children that had been sued by the RIAA for file sharing has been pushing people to get free iTunes download codes from the cap of Pepsi bottles. Someone didn’t QA these bottles though. You can pick up a Pepsi bottle at the convenience store, tilt it, and see Read More
Have you ever Googled yourself? Egosurfing to find out what people are saying about you is quite common these days. A 17-year old boy in California came across his own photo, taken when he was 3, on the childfind.ca website, saying that he had been missing. It turns out that his mother had taken him Read More
Some assembly required. You can buy your own Navy F/A-18A Blue Angel Hornet fighter jet… on eBay, where else? Mike Landa has listed the jet, and claims the jet came out of military service in 1994, and that it has been decommisioned in parts. The jet can fly at 1,400 mph and can climb 30,000 Read More
Just weeks after U.S. President George W. Bush announced plans for NASA to send a person to Mars, the European Space Agency has followed suit. The ESA’s program – codenamed “Aurora” – is much more detailed. The first step is the development and construction of a high-speed re-entry vehicle by 2007. Following that, the ESA Read More