Parallel Worlds

Approximately 10 years ago, children began to disappear from an amusement park of the British town of Kent. The kids would enter the hall of mirrors and never came out.

The local police r an of f their legs. Recently, a psychic lady announced that she knew where the kids were. According to her, there was a door to the other world behind one of the mirrors in the amusement park.

We live in a 3-D space where everything is measured by height, width and length, and we are only capable of thinking within these limits. We know that one dimension is an endless straight line. We can easily imagine two dimensions – a subspace, or plain surface, and we can see three usual dimensions around. Yet, even academic science acknowledges that there are more dimensions out there.
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iPhones and new virus

Hackers have built a virus that attacks Apple Inc’s iPhone by secretly taking control of the devices via their Internet connections, security experts said.

The virus has been detected in the Netherlands and can only attack iPhones whose users have disabled some pre-installed security features, according to analysts monitoring the progress of the virus.

The hackers are trying to use the virus to obtain passwords to banking sites, according to Graham Cluley, a researcher with anti-virus software maker Sophos. When an iPhone user tries to access a bank website, the Duh Worm directs the browser to a look-a-like site controlled by the hackers, Cluley said.

A spokeswoman for ING Group said the Dutch banking giant discovered a criminal network that attempted to steal banking credentials via hacked iPhones. Dutch clients of ING have been targeted, but there was no indication that clients outside the Netherlands have to worry, she said. Read more

The Wikipedia, Napster, the iPhone, Facebook - By the Webby Awards

The birth of Wikipedia, the death of Napster, the iPhone, Facebook, and Twitter were named by the Webby Awards on Wednesday as among the top 10 Internet moments of the decade.

Other events singled out by the New York-based International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences which bestows the annual Webby Awards were Iran’s election protests, Craigslist’s expansion and the launch of Google AdWords.

“The Internet is the story of the decade because it was the catalyst for change in not just every Read more

YouTube say news…

YouTube says starting next week it will support the same high-resolution video that can now be seen on flat screen TVs.

The online video unit of Google Inc. said Thursday it will support video playback in the full high-definition format known as 1080p, upgrading from the current 720p.

After engineers tested its system, YouTube spokesman Chris Dale said the company is not worried about infrastructure problems or higher costs associated with supporting bulkier files. Read more

Free Wi-Fi service …

Google is providing free Wi-Fi service as a holiday gift now through Jan. 15 next year in dozens of airports across the United States.

Currently, there are 47 airports participating in the project, including Las Vegas, San Jose, Boston, Baltimore, Burbank, Houston, Indianapolis, Seattle, Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Orlando, St. Louis and Charlotte.

As a result of the project, Burbank and Seattle airports will begin offering airport-wide free Wi-Fi access indefinitely, Read more

Ocean to Africa.

Researchers say faults and fissures, which normally occur deep down on the ocean floor, are the main processes by which continents gradually break off from each other. They cite Africa, which underwent a similar phase when it split from America millions of years ago.

Researchers hypothesize that a miles-long crack in the Ethiopian desert may eventually become an ocean. A new study from the journal Geophysical Research Letters reports that a 20-foot wide crack in the center of the Ethiopian desert will eventually become a new ocean. In a recently released study, scientists revealed how a rift from a volcanic eruption tore open a 35-mile crack in just days, reports MNN.

A new study from the journal Geophysical Research Letters reports that a 20-foot wide crack in the center of the Ethiopian desert will eventually become a new ocean.

In a recently released study, scientists revealed how a rift from a volcanic eruption tore open a 35-mile crack in just days, reports MNN. Read more

MSN, adds Twitter, Facebook

Microsoft is giving its MSN Web portal a long-overdue makeover and says it hopes the new site will funnel more people to Bing, the software maker’s search engine.

Microsoft is ditching the heavy blue background and stack of tiny text and menus across the top of the page that have defined msn.com for a decade.

The new site is cleaner, with a white background and simple, colorful links for “news,” “entertainment,” “sports,” “money,” “lifestyle” and “more” lined up across the top.

But it’s still clearly a portal, filled with blocks of headlines. The most prominent real estate on the page is dominated by a slide show of the top five stories with big headlines and photos.

Some of what appears on the MSN home page will be picked by editors looking for top stories. They’ll get an assist from new software that uses Bing to find hot topics just as they begin to simmer. Read more

ICANN - new domain name process.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved a new domain name process — the Fast Track Process — to allow for non-Latin characters, media reported Monday.

The ICANN, an organization responsible for managing the assignment of domain names and IP addresses, will allow countries and territories to apply for domain names in their native language, according to the Fast Track Process that will launch on Nov. 16.

Web addresses will now be able to be expressed in about 16 other alphabets or scripts, including simplified and traditional Chinese characters, Russian Cyrillic, Korean Hangul and Hebrew. Dozens of other alphabets are likely to be added in coming years. Read more

LED TVs take advantage over their predecessors.

Entertainment remains one of the driving forces of scientific progress. Electronic makers invest a lot in the development of new state-of-the-art technologies. LED TVs are one of the recent achievements of the modern-day electronic industry. Will LED eventually replace LCD and plasma TV sets?

There is a whole range of new devices that contain ‘LED’ abbreviation in their titles. There are several types of displays which are based on light-emitted diodes – LED. However, sources of light play different roles in each of those types.

In OLED, AMOLED and OEL displays, every pixel corresponds to a tiny diode. Electric current is delivered to each and every element of the display to create the full spectrum of colors in a picture. Read more

Windows 7 pirate version.

Software vendors in Beijing are already selling pirated versions of the Windows 7 operating system after its official China release on Oct 23.

Roughly 30 percent of the 20 vendors METRO interviewed yesterday at Hailong Plaza, the largest market selling electronic products in Zhongguancun, offered a pirated version of Windows 7.

Piracy software vendors have kept a low profile when selling the pirated operating system due to a tough government attitude and Microsoft’s aggressive marketing campaigns.

“I am taking a high risk to sell the pirated version. The government has launched a very harsh campaign recently. We will be fined over 10,000 yuan and probably also sent to prison if they catch us,” a woman surname Zhao, who works for a video store in Hailong, told METRO.

The demand for Windows 7 is high. A vendor in Hailong, surnamed Huo, said she could sell 20 genuine copies a day. It went out of stock on Monday. Read more

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