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Ukrainian Arrested In India For TJX Data Theft 40

Posted by kdawson on Friday May 14, 2010 @01:44PM from the long-long-arm dept.

ComputerWorld reports "A Ukrainian national has been arrested in India in connection with the most notorious hacking incident in US history." "Sergey Valeryevich Storchark was one of 11 men charged in August 2008 with hacking into nine US retailers and selling tens of millions of credit card numbers. He was arrested in India earlier this week, according to a spokesman with India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). In a statement, the CBI said they'd arrested Storchark in New Delhi on the night of May 8, as he deplaned from a flight from Goa, for layover before a flight to Turkey. US authorities had asked for his extradition via diplomatic channels. ... 'His extradition and prosecution would have been very unlikely had he reached his final destination of Ukraine,' the CBI said."

Most Distant Object Yet Detected, Bagged By Galileo Scope 101

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday April 25, 2009 @11:18AM from the long-time-ago-in-a-galaxy-far,-far-away dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It's fitting, in this 400th anniversary of the astronomical telescope, that the Telescopio Nationale Galileo (TNG) in the Canary Islands would be used to uncover the most distant object ever seen by mankind. The gamma-ray burst from April 23, a powerful explosion from a dying star, was detected by the Swift satellite using on-board gamma-ray and X-ray instruments. A flurry of activity led to the remarkable discovery that the event occurred roughly 630 million years after the Big Bang. This makes GRB 090423 the most distant known event!"

Submission + - Death of the cell phone keypad as we know it?

Submitted by on Tuesday November 14, 2006 @09:02AM

An anonymous reader writes: According to a Cnet article, two companies called Mobience and Nuance have created viable and possibly better alternatives to the standard cell phone keypad. "Mobience who is based in South Korea, has redesigned the ABC and Qwerty key layout, and come up with MobileQwerty. It's essentially the same three-letters-per-key system as the standard mobile keypad layout, but the letters have been rearranged in a Qwertyesque way to increase efficiency." The other system developed by Nuance is a mobile speech platform that turns speech into text and replaces the keypad altogether. I was skeptical at first but the video of Nuance's software vs Ben Cook, the ex world texting champion, is undeniably impressive.

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