New Mexico's Spaceport America will offer space trips for ordinary people by 2013 for just $200,000 dollars per trip. The announcement was made by Virgin Galactic vice president Will Pomerantz during a Commercial Real Estate Development Association luncheon before 300 people. Pomerantz offered...
Facebook's privacy is "fundamentally flawed" per results from a Columbia University study. Steven M. Bellovin, an ingenious computer scientist who assisted in the development of USENET Internet discussion board systems, conducted the first Facebook study highlighting sprouting privacy issues on...
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange held his first public appearance since his December arrest following rape charges and declared claims of "more accountability" than governments. Assange led a debate held in London, England, on Saturday, April 9, 2011. The event was sponsored by the New...
New York area hookers have slowly stopped using Craigslist and instead use Facebook to attract potential business per a recent Columbia University study. Sudhir Venkatesh of Columbia published the results of the study involving 290 sex workers in the February issue of Wired Magazine. Venkatesh...
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle refuse to let their daughters use Facebook. In an interview on NBC's Today Show on Wednesday, Mrs. Obama declared that she's "not a big fan of young kids having Facebook." Which means the Obama's daughters, Malia, age 12, and Sasha, age 9, do not...
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has filed a restraining order against FB stalker Pradeep Manukonda. TMZ was first to report that Zuckerberg has received a restraining order against a 31 year old man who has attempted to "follow, surveil, and contact Mr. Zuckerberg using language threatening his...
Apple's presale of the Verizon iPhone 4 began at 3:00 a.m. on February 3, 2011 and only increases the anticipation regarding the general public sales beginning February 10, 2011. The presale began at the Verizon Wireless website and at Apple's website and allowed existing customers to preorder new...
The latest Wikileaks cables states that Al Qaeda can build atomic bombs. The whistleblowing organization has released thousands of American diplomatic cables and security briefs to the UK's Daily Telegraph. The Wikileaks cables suggest the world's most menacing terrorist organization has complied...
U.S. prosecutors have launched an investigation and have begun building a case against Apple Inc's iPad email theft. Investigators will announce criminal charges regarding over 120,000 iPad users who were victim of a AT&T's 3G server hack. The hack breeched thousands of email addresses and...
Apple CEO Steven Jobs has been given a medical leave of absence. The CEO will continue to perform all major decisions for the company during his absence but has enlisted Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook to handle Apple's daily operations. Jobs made the announcement of his leave via an email sent...
