Monthly Archives: January 2010

A 13-year-old Saudi schoolgirl is to be given 90 lashes in front of her classmates after she was caught with a mobile camera phone. The girl, who has not been named, was also sentenced to two months in jail by a court in the eastern city of Jubail. She had assaulted her headmistress after beingContinue reading “Saudi girl, 13, sentenced to 90 lashes after she took a mobile phone to school | Mail Online”

Attaching 55 helium balloons to his trusty office chair, adrenaline junkie Jonathan Trappe managed to soar to nearly 15,000 feet. After spending two years in training and upwards of £45,000 on the adventure, this was the technical project manager's first ever cluster balloon flight. In scenes reminiscent of the film Up – in which anContinue reading “Adventurer attaches 55 helium balloons to an office chair to soar to 15,000 feet | Mail Online”

Stopping a speeding car without killing its driver and passengers with traditional means–bullets–can prove tricky, even if skilled snipers can put a disabling shot in a car's engine block. But a Canadian company could soon demo an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) cannon capable of effectively scrambling a car's chips and other electronics, according to Flight International.Continue reading “Electromagnetic Pulse Cannon Could Demo Car-Stopping Power Next Month | Popular Science”

AT&T would need to spend about US$5 billion on its wireless network to catch up with the coverage offered by Verizon Wireless, a financial research firm said Tuesday. The public's perception of AT&T's network is poor and declining, apparently because of real shortcomings when compared with Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel, said Gerard Hallaren, directorContinue reading “Analyst: AT&T Needs to Spend US$5B to Catch up – PC World”

Oh god damn it, we’re all gonna have to buy new phones. A day after Verizon forces its Blackberry owners to use Microsoft Bing (which crashed some phones overnight, making at least one guy late to work), BusinessWeek reports that Apple is thinking of doing the same to iPhone users. This is, of course insane.Continue reading “Microsoft Making Sure Every Phone Sucks But the Droid | lalawag”