Samsung to release its Tizen phone in 2014

A Samsung executive has warned the company’s first Tizen-powered smartphone won’t be released until 2014, putting the device’s debut several months behind the schedule indicated by Samsung earlier this year. Tizen is a new mobile operating system, jointly produced by Samsung and Intel, which is regarded by the pair as an alternative to Android.
The news of the delay comes from a report published by the Korea Herald, covering a local summit on Smart TVs, another market where Tizen will be used. Quoting the head of Samsung’s visual display division, it’s stated a Tizen TV won’t be out until after the OS makes its smartphone debut, which is now expected in 2014.
Samsung announced Tizen during Mobile World Congress in February, and promises were made the first device using the OS would come before the end of the year. It wasn’t only going to be on affordable hardware either, as these Tizen phones were said to have, “The best specifications,” conjuring up images of a Galaxy S-like Tizen phone.

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'Anonymous' hacks Singapore Prime Minister's website

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's official website has been hacked by people claiming to be members of the hacking group Anonymous.

The attack comes a day after Mr Lee said he would track down the group.
He made the comments after a person claiming to be part of the group posted an online video in which he threatened to hack government websites.
Singapore's internet and phone regulator said part of the website had been "compromised" late on Thursday.
"The PMO main website is still working, and we are working to restore the page that has been compromised," the Infocomm Development Authority said in a statement.
The hackers had posted an image of a Guy Fawkes mask - the symbol of the Anonymous group - on the PM's website with the words: "It's great to be Singaporean today."

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Cosmonauts set for Olympic torch relay spacewalk

In a scene the ancient Greeks could never have imagined, two Russian cosmonauts plan to carry an unlighted Olympic torch outside the International Space Station Saturday, staging a symbolic spacewalk relay as part of the buildup to the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.
Soyuz TMA-10M commander Oleg Kotov and flight engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy plan to open the hatch of the Russian Pirs airlock compartment around 6:30 a.m. PT (5 GMT) Saturday.
"We will take a picture of it with the space station in the background, with the Earth in the background," Kotov said in a NASA interview. "I think these will be very interesting videos and pictures that will be used to promote the Olympic Games."
Said Ryazanskiy: "Unfortunately we cannot light it in space, so we will simply take it to space and take pictures and some video with the station and the Earth in the background. It will be a real Olympic torch...I think it will be the last torch that will be lit during the Sochi Olympics relay."

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Lego has LIFT-OFF! Best friends launch toy figures 90,000ft into space using a £250 homemade probe - and capture it on camera

Ian, 29, said: 'Being geeks, we would love to go into space but it’s a little impractical.
'So, we thought we would use Lego men that are little versions of us - Jon’s even has glasses, and they’re dressed like astronauts.
'At one point it all went a bit crazy and Jon’s strapping came loose, meaning his Lego man did a little space-walk in front of the camera!'
Made from only a high-altitude balloon, a payload and an HD camera, The Manchester Meteor enjoyed the high life for around two-and-a-half-hours.
Primary teacher Jon, and Ian tracked its descent from the ground and collected it some 75 miles away from its launchpad.
The intrepid pair, who met while studying aerospace engineering at Manchester University, built the probe in their spare time after retaining a keen interest in space.

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Nexus 5 vs. Nexus 4

What has changed?
With the Nexus 5, you can finally feel comfortable dropping off the Wi-Fi connection because Google has finally included 4G LTE. An upgrade to the processor also gives the Nexus 5 a jump in power. The Snapdragon 800 runs at 2.26GHz compared to the Nexus 4′s Snapdragon S4 Pro’s 1.5GHz – though the S4 Pro was no slouch. Users can enjoy the new power a little longer with extra battery capacity too – a small upgrade from 2,100mAh to 2,300mAh.
The other big change is in the display. Getting a slight bump in size and a huge upgrade in resolution, the Nexus 5 goes Full HD at 1080 x 1920 pixels, making for an extremely dense 445 pixels per inch. Google has a knack for making devices with crystal clear displays and it seems the Nexus 5 is set to take that tradition to the next level. You’ll use that screen to look at a new version of Android as well, with the introduction of Android 4.4 KitKat. One of the new features of the OS, the burst camera feature HDR+, takesI  advantage of the added optical image stabilization to the phone’s 8-megapixel rear camera.

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Adobe Hack Victim Count Skyrockets to 38M

After initially estimating that a mere 3 million customers had been affected by the security breach it announced at the start of October, Adobe on Wednesday admitted that the actual number now looks to be closer to an eye-popping 38 million. In addition, the breach seems to be more far-reaching than initially thought, extending to the Photoshop family of products as well.

In its original announcement, Adobe said hackers stole 3 million encrypted customer credit card records and login data for Adobe user accounts. This past weekend, however, AnonNews.org posted a file that appears to include more than 150 million username and hashed password pairs taken from Adobe, according to Krebs on Security.

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Lockheed envisions Mach 6 successor to SR-71 Blackbird

The SR-71 Blackbird flew faster than any other production plane ever. Its successor, the SR-72, will go twice as fast.
That's the big, jaw-dropping takeaway from Aviation Week's exclusive look at Lockheed Martin's work on the next-generation aircraft. A demonstrator version of the SR-72 could be ready as early as 2018.
Lockheed told Aviation Week that the goal is for the new aircraft to be seriously hypersonic, blazing across the sky at around Mach 6. The intent, too, is to broaden the mission: The SR-72 would pick up where the Blackbird left off in performing high-altitude intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions, but unlike its weaponless predecessor also would -- hypothetically -- be capable of carrying out strikes on targets.

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