5th August 2012 Archive
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Pasadena to party hardy as Martian landing looms
Curiosity Mars mission Planetary Society, SpaceX, and Mars Society hit town
Pasadena is a fairly geeky place at the best of times, given it's the home to the California Institute of Technology and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, but the city is going Mars crazy as Curiosity approaches its rendezvous. On Saturday night a party is taking place in the city's downtown zone where the great and the geeky …
Space 5 Aug 03:21
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Size does matter: Outlook.com punters want meatier passwords
16 characters not enough, say security experts
Microsoft has come in for a bit of stick in security circles for only allowing a 16-character password for sign-ups to Outlook.com, Redmond's newly launched Gmail rival. The service – which has already attracted more than a million sign-ups – has a maximum password length of 16 characters, the same as Hotmail.com and Windows …
Applications 5 Aug 10:12
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Australia prepares for Martian first contact
Curiosity's first signals will land down under
As NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission descends on Mars today, Australia’s facilities in Canberra and the legendary telescopic space mecca, Parkes will be yet again playing a significant role in space exploration history. The Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (CDSCC), which the CSIRO manages on NASA's behalf, will …
Science 5 Aug 21:40
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Reuters suffers double hack
Breakingbroken newsCall it a “psy-ops” attack, if you like: Reuters has suffered the embarrassment of having two platforms infiltrated and used to spread propaganda messages supporting the Syrian regime. The newswire’s woes began on Friday, August 3, when attackers gained access to its blogging platform and posted false stories claiming …
Security 5 Aug 21:56
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DARPA chips in on Terahertz research
Solid-state receiver hits 850 GHz
The next frontier for solid-state electronics, the Terahertz boundary, has come a little closer with DARPA announcing a receiver operating at 850 GHz. Currently, receiving and decoding THz signals requires a frequency down-conversion on the way, because nobody’s produced chips that can operate at such high frequencies. Down- …
Science 5 Aug 23:39
