Science & Technology – Week of 12.21.14

Apple Did its First Ever Automatic Security Update on Macs Today
Slate | 23 December 2014
Apple added universal automatic updates…

Coming Data Deluge Means You’ll Know Anything You Want, Anytime, Anywhere
Singularity Hub | 23 December 2014
We are going to be disrupting…

NASA Black Hole Telescope Snaps Dazzling View of the Sun
Space | 22 December 2014
Scientists aren’t sure why…

Key N. Korean Websites Suffer Short Outages after Shutdown
Yahoo | 23 December 2014
Tiny number of North Koreans…

North Korean Web Goes Dark Days After Obama Pledges Response to Sony Hack
Washington Post | 22 December 2014
Researchers began to noticen…

NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope Discovers Alien ‘Super Earth’ 180 Light-Years Away
Huffington Post | 22 December 2014
Kepler has found nearly 1,000 confirmed…

Transparent Aluminum
Make Zine | 17 January 2012
The grainy structure is…

North Korean Internet Access Restored After Hours-Long Outage
Bloomberg | 22 December 2014
While North Korea has four…

Sony Hires Real-Life ‘Scandal’ Manager
Bloomberg | 22 December 2014
President George H.W. Bush before starting her…

Military Reloads with Nanotech
Technology Review | 21 January 2005
Nanoaluminum is more…

Hacking Collective Anonymous Says FBI is Lying, “North Korea is Not Source Of Hack”
Zero Hedge | 21 December 2014
You are an…

Sony Considers YouTube as Possible Distributor for The Interview after Hack
The Guardian | 21 December 2014
But Lynton…

Who really hacked Sony Pictures? It probably wasn’t North Korea (updated)
Extreme Tech | 19 December 2014
North Korea isn’t usually…

Sony Hack: the Plot to Kill The Interview – a Timeline so Far
The Guardian | 18 December 2014
We look back over how…

U.S. Weighs ‘Proportional Response’ to Hack of Sony Pictures
Bloomberg | 18 December 2014
Officials have sufficient…

CIA: US Unsuccessful in ‘Targeted Killings’
Press TV | 19 December 2014
“The Taliban has a high overall…

‘No Borders in Space’: Russian Cosmonaut, US Astronaut Get Ready for Longest ISS Flight
RT | 19 December 2014
Their trip is a test for…