Alien technology achieves record broadband speed

A joint French and British project has achieved broadband speeds of 1.4 terabytes per second over a 255 mile distance, which the companies are claiming as a record. The speeds are apparently the result of an “alien super channel.” The project is the work of French firm Alcatel-Lucent and British Telecom. They carried out the […]

Password no longer most popular password

The tech media is once again reporting on a list of the world’s “worst” passwords. And once again, the list has some serious inherent limitations. This particular list comes from SplashData, which not so coincidentally develops password management software. It’s put together a list of the 25 worst passwords, the criteria being how frequently they […]

Australia + Star Wars + Beer + VFX = Star Wars Downunder [Fan Film]

Directed by Michael Cox, Star Wars Downunder tells the epic tale of the good, the bad and the thirsty. 10 years in the making, Star Wars Downunder is shot on 35mm film and features motion captured CGI characters, and an array of other VFX techniques. It’s also a bit of fun. This project started as […]