Swiss Fort Knox

Its not part of any fiction film…ITS REAL!! The ultimate data security…deep under the Swiss Alps

Follow the link for more details: http://www.swissfortknox.ch/swissfortknox-english/infografik.html

For all the die-hard Apple & Steve Jobs fans..

Try Spicy Steve Nachos, iPad Thai and an Apple Cheese Plate and pay homage to the greatest consumer electronics company of all time.

This is not a joke!

This is how its made:

   

 

Follow the link for a detailed recipe!!  http://www.thecooksden.com/steve-jobs-cheese-head/

Robot Guides

A financial center in Madrid, Spain which is so damn big and confusing to navigate that you'll desperately need these multilingual robots to guide you around. Here's how it works.  BTW, keep your eyes on the video for some more interesting things to see..

Credit: Gizmodo

Chilean Quake May Have Shortened Earth Days 03.01.10

The Feb. 27 magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Chile may have shortened the length of each Earth day.

JPL research scientist Richard Gross computed how Earth's rotation should have changed as a result of the Feb. 27 quake. Using a complex model, he and fellow scientists came up with a preliminary calculation that the quake should have shortened the length of an Earth day by about 1.26 microseconds (a microsecond is one millionth of a second).

Perhaps more impressive is how much the quake shifted Earth's axis. Gross calculates the quake should have moved Earth's figure axis (the axis about which Earth's mass is balanced) by 2.7 milliarcseconds (about 8 centimeters, or 3 inches). Earth’s figure axis is not the same as its north-south axis; they are offset by about 10 meters (about 33 feet).

By comparison, Gross said the same model estimated the 2004 magnitude 9.1 Sumatran earthquake should have shortened the length of day by 6.8 microseconds and shifted Earth's axis by 2.32 milliarcseconds (about 7 centimeters, or 2.76 inches).

Gross said that even though the Chilean earthquake is much smaller than the Sumatran quake, it is predicted to have changed the position of the figure axis by a bit more for two reasons. First, unlike the 2004 Sumatran earthquake, which was located near the equator, the 2010 Chilean earthquake was located in Earth's mid-latitudes, which makes it more effective in shifting Earth's figure axis. Second, the fault responsible for the 2010 Chiliean earthquake dips into Earth at a slightly steeper angle than does the fault responsible for the 2004 Sumatran earthquake. This makes the Chile fault more effective in moving Earth's mass vertically and hence more effective in shifting Earth's figure axis.

Gross said the Chile predictions will likely change as data on the quake are further refined.

Surprise Shrimp Under Antarctic Ice

At a depth of 600 feet beneath the West Antarctic ice sheet, a small shrimp-like creature managed to brighten up an otherwise gray polar day in late November 2009. This critter is a three-inch long Lyssianasid amphipod found beneath the Ross Ice Shelf, about 12.5 miles away from open water. NASA scientists were using a borehole camera to look back up towards the ice surface when they spotted this pinkish-orange creature swimming beneath the ice

Scientists trying to catch a glimpse of what the underbelly of an ice sheet in Antarctica looks like got the surprise of a lifetime when they found a shrimp-like amphipod and a jellyfish thriving in the subfreezing dark water.

Six hundred feet below the ice where no light is found, scientists had believed that nothing more than microbes could exist. But when the NASA team lowered a video camera to the depths to look around, they watched as a curious 3-inch-long Lyssianasid amphipod came swimming by and snagged on to the camera cable. Scientists also pulled up a tentacle from what they believe to be a jellyfish.

NASA ice scientist Robert Bindschadler, who will be presenting the findings and a video at an American Geophysical Union meeting Wednesday, told The Associated Press, “We were operating on the presumption that nothing's there.”

The video may inspire experts to reassess what they know about life in harsh environments. It did have scientists reflecting on the possibilities that if shrimp-like creatures can thrive below 600 feet of sea ice, why not in other hostile places like Jupiter’s frozen moon Europa?

“They are looking at the equivalent of a drop of water in a swimming pool that you would expect nothing to be living in and they found not one animal but two,” said biologist Stacy Kim of the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories in California.

“This is a first for the sub-glacial environment with that level of sophistication,” said microbiologist Cynan Ellis-Evans of the British Antarctic Survey, who was intrigued by the finding. He noted that there have been similar findings of complex life retreating in ice shelves, but nothing this deep under the ice before. He did say that it was possible they were just passing through from far away and don’t live there permanently.

But Kim, a co-author of the study, doubts it. The site is at least 12 miles from open seas. It is unlikely that the two creatures swam from a great distance and were randomly filmed in such a small area, she said.

However, what puzzled scientists was what food source could be available there. While some microbes can make their own food out of chemicals in the ocean, the amphipod and the jellyfish cannot, Kim said.

The key question is ‘How do they survive’? “It's pretty amazing when you find a huge puzzle like that on a planet where we thought we know everything,” Kim said. 

PogoPlug Hard Drive Sharing Gadget Now Streams to Xbox and PS3 Across the Cloud

Pogoplug™ Launches Console Media Streaming and Offsite Backup

San Francisco, Calif. – March 16th, 2010 – Pogoplug, the multimedia sharing device that allows users to access their media anywhere on the web, today adds two new features to the award-winning device. Starting today, Pogoplug users can stream content to Xbox 360 and PS3 game consoles. The enhanced Active Copy feature now automatically copies files to a Pogoplug in another location.

With game console support, Pogoplug owners can now easily access, share, and stream their media directly to their Xbox 360 or PS3 from any local or remotely located Pogoplug. Gamers can watch home movies from their Pogoplug connected external hard drive on their Xbox 360 or PS3, share slideshows or listen to their entire music library without ever putting down their game controller. The Xbox 360 or PS3 automatically sees the drives connected to the Pogoplug and the contents of other shared Pogoplugs.

"By adding media streaming capabilities to the Xbox 360 and PS3 through your Pogoplug, we are making it easier than ever to access your media on your television," said Daniel Putterman, Cloud Engines CEO. "The new version of Active Copy is revolutionary. Now anyone can easily keep a safe copy of their files in another location."

Active Copy enables users to backup folders on their computer to a Pogoplug connected drive. Whenever new files are added, or changes are made to an existing file within the Active Copy enabled folder, these files are automatically copied to a chosen destination folder. Now users can also use Active Copy to automatically backup key files from one Pogoplug to another off-site Pogoplug, for additional safety and redundancy.

Both features came from user requests and both update to all Pogoplugs worldwide via an automatic firmware upgrade today. For support or other questions, please visit the support page at www.Pogoplug.com/support and the community website, www.pogoplugged.com.