|
|
Advertisement:
|
|
OCAU News |
Wednesday Midday
(9 Comments)
(link)
Wednesday, 17-October-2012 12:48:32 (GMT +10) - by Agg
|
UK "hacker" Gary McKinnon has won his battle to avoid being extradited to the USA. Mr McKinnon was arrested in London in 2002 for hacking into dozens of Pentagon and NASA computers, leaving 300 machines at a naval air station immobilised just after the September 11, 2001 attacks. He has never denied the hacking, claiming he was looking for classified US documents on UFOs. He could have faced up to 60 years in a US jail for the breaches, which the US says caused $800,000 worth of damage.
There's a new PC benchmark called (and featuring) Catzilla. The benchmark will be both OpenGL and directX, will run on XP, Vista, Win7 and Win8. The minimum requirement is A D3D10 compatible GPU with minimum of 512 VRAM.
We think of Photoshopping as a new phenomenon, but The Verge report it's been around nearly as long as photography. “It was probably less than ten minutes that went by from the invention of photography to the point where people realized they could lie with photographs,” said film director Errol Morris in an interview with Motherboard last year.
ExtremeTech report on the tech behind Baumgartner's jump. The Red Bull Stratos team backing Baumgartner describes their feat as a “mission to the edge of space.” Years in the planning, the team has gone through many iterations of equipment and practice jumps before finally being ready to make the record-setting attempt from Roswell, New Mexico.
Check out this cool RC ball thing. Sphero is the world's first robotic ball gaming system that you control from your smartphone or tablet. You can even use Sphero as a controller for on-screen and multi-player games.
When you cross two bored Batman fans and an enormous pile of LEGO, you get the LEGO Batcave.
Return to OCAU's News Page
|
|
Advertisement:
All original content copyright James Rolfe.
All rights reserved. No reproduction allowed without written permission.
|
Advertisement:
|
|
|
