Ron Howard has made a movie about men who drive around in circles accessible for everyone, not just race fans. Good on him…….

Bright lights and butterfly wings – obviously makes sense to someone……

judgecorp writes “Another British bank — Barclays — has been hit by a fraud attempt using a stealthily-planted KVM (keyboard, video, mouse) device. Unlike the previous attempt on Santander, the crooks got away with £1.3 million, but were subsequently apprehended by the Metropolitan Police’s Central e-Crimes Unit.”……

An anonymous reader writes with a story excerpt that may inspire envy in some readers: “Most beer guts are the result of consuming fermented brew, but a new case study describes a rare syndrome that had one man’s gut fermenting brew, not consuming it. It’s called gut fermentation syndrome or auto-brewery syndrome, and it’s ‘a…

Rivalry between the US and China for dominance in the Pacific will determine the structure of any new trans-Pacific cable linking Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands and the United States…….

Taco Cowboy writes “‘NASA is calling off attempts to find its Deep Impact comet probe after a suspected software glitch shut down radio communications in August, officials said on Friday.’ Last month, engineers lost contact with Deep Impact and unsuccessfully tried to regain communications. The cause of the failure was unknown, but NASA suspects the…

Bad news for Intel’s pricey Thunderbolt……

markjhood2003 writes “According to a story published in USA Today, an anonymous source at Google familiar with the plan has revealed that Google is developing an anonymous identifier for advertising tracking, replacing the function of third party cookies currently used by most major advertisers. The new AdID supposedly gives consumers more privacy and control over…

In my final post in a three-part series, I have put together a list of unexpected or hidden features I’ve found in iOS 7…….

Australian scientists 3D-map the interior of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. We meet the cutest Little Robot Friends from Canada, and take a ride on the back of a soaring eagle…….