By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] Whenever people hear of cyberattacks and hackers, they automatically assume that these attacks come from China, Russia or another country in that area of the world. But a study by security firm SecureWorks has shown that the vast majority of cyberattacks come from the United States with China coming […]
Each September, Montreal, Quebec closes Ste-Catherine street, one of the busiest streets in the city, to hold the “a day without my car” event. As the name implies, no motorized circulation is allowed on the street during this day, and a bunch of vendors present green-transport alternatives to cars. This year, “L’école Polytechnique de Montréal,” […]
by Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] What do United Airlines, War of the Worlds, and the upcoming “massively-multiplayer forecasting game” Superstruct have in common? According to one of the game’s designers at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, more than you might think. When I was in high school in the nineties, a friend […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) has always been one of my favourite websites. It has never failed me when I’ve had an obscure movie query and has saved me a lot of money in potential cinema tickets by warning me in advance about terrible movies (although I still went […]
By Jimmy Rogers Contributing Writer, [GAS] Contrary to popular belief, Google is a large, rich, mysterious company. Oh wait, that’s extremely obvious in everything they do. In fact, they recently demonstrated their mysteriousness by releasing Google Chrome with about one day’s notice to the internet at large. Instead of stirring up hype or even accidentally […]
Since the LHC has been successfully powered up yesterday and a lot of confusion remains on what CERN’S Big Bang machine truly does, I thought that some of you might like getting some extra information on the subject. Created by CERN employee Chris Mann, the following presentation explains in relatively simple terms the inner working […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] They won’t be able to poke one another or post photos of their drunken one night stands. Or install widgets that plays games or sends virtual Winnie The Poohs. But the US Intelligence community’s “A-Space”, the ‘Facebook and YouTube for Spies’ which is about to begin, will be hopefully […]
If you’ve been searching for a good domain name for a new site, but are getting depressed because you think all the best ones are already taken, listen to the following video. The fact is, there are still plenty of great domain names laying around, you just have to be a little imaginative. [Via Self […]
By Jimmy Rogers Contributing Writer, [GAS] Our own Mark O’Neill clued me in to this little gem. The Register is reporting that the iPhone may not be as secure as once thought. While the new “enterprise” features are supposedly state of the art, there is an easy hack available to bypass one of the security […]
Shortly after 12:00 PM PDT today, Google released the beta version of its new web browser, Google Chrome. Currently it’s only available for Windows Vista and XP, and only in 32-bit. I downloaded it and took it for a test drive. Whenever I install software on Windows, I always customize the installation to eliminate the […]