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Archive for December, 2005

The search for smaller Earth-threatening asteroids

Friday, December 23rd, 2005

As part of the re-authorization bill passed by the congress and awaiting Bush’s signature NASA will lead a search for asteroids that could be threatening Earth. The scope of objects that NASA will be looking for are asteroids larger than 140m in diameter. Currently NASA has only been searching for asteroids larger than [...]

Apple ’s Black iBooks

Saturday, December 17th, 2005

The rumour mill is working at full speed these days with regards to what will be the next move made by Apple Computers. In advance of the Macworld Expo in January 2006 there has been a lot of speculation about what might be unveiled. We at The Brig believe that the ‘soon to [...]

Virgin Galactic Announces Space port in New Mexico

Tuesday, December 13th, 2005

Richard Branson made the announcement today that the launch site for the Virgin Galactic Space program would be built in New Mexico 25 miles south of the town of Truth or Consequences. It will be 90 percent underground with only the runway and support facilities above ground.
Construction is expected to begin early [...]

TIME: 50 Coolest websites

Monday, December 12th, 2005

From the people who are known for their pick of the “Person of the Year”, TIME Magazine has now unveiled its list of the 50 Coolest websites.
Some of these Are no brainers for the list like sec.gov and bbc.co.uk, but others are pretty surprising (but totally cool nonetheless).
Click here to Check it out at TIME [...]

Halo Zero: A 2-D Adventure

Monday, December 12th, 2005

This game is absolutely worth a check. Halo Zero is a classic style 2-D adventure featuring the Master chief battling the god forsaken covenant in Contra Styled interface. The final version has just been released, version 1.8.3 of Halo Zero.
It’s all there, the battle rifle, the pistol, the Rocket Launcher, your friendly marine backup [...]

China Tops Tech World

Monday, December 12th, 2005

Perhaps in a sign of things to come, China has officially usurped the United States as the world’s #1 exporter of Technology goods. The numbers are pretty astounding. In 2004 China shipped $180 Billion in Laptops, cell phones and various other technology devices. This massive amount compares with the US figure of $149 billion. Both [...]

Subaru: From the Outback to Minefields

Monday, December 12th, 2005

While other automotive companies have focused on the development of crowd pleasing, dancing, humanoid, soccer playing robots the Japanese car company Subaru has focused its efforts in a more down to earth application. Subaru’s (a division of Fuji Heavy Industries) cutting edge robotics development team has moved their “mine-clearing” robot into testing. The tests are [...]

EA enters Mobile Gaming

Monday, December 12th, 2005

Electronic Arts, widely viewed as the largest developer of video games has opted to enter the Mobile Gaming Market. BusinessWeek on line reports that EA has opted to purchase mobile phone game developer jamdat. This purchase gives EA not only the expertise but also the market base to immediately move its games onto the mobile [...]

NASA outsourcing space travel

Sunday, December 11th, 2005

Over the next 4 years NASA plans on spending $500 million on developing the capability in the private sector to be able to deliver payloads and possibly people into space. The hope is that by 2010 (or sooner) private companies will be able to support the International Space Station by bringing supplies up. [...]

Microsft IE exposes Google Desktop to Hackers

Monday, December 5th, 2005

Once again, a critical flaw in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Browser has put our privacy at the hands of Hackers. Techworld.com Reports that this time it’s not all of us who are in danger, just the millions of us who use Google’s popular Desktop Search Application.
According to Israeli hacker, Matan Gillon a flaw in the [...]