Talk about your morning weird. Some people studying Google Earth for some reason managed to run across some very weird patterns in the Chinese desert that have a bunch of folks stumped. The patterns look like stripes that were etched or dug over the top of the landscape in the area. Some of the lines appear to be made from a silver/white material.
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Massive networks of stripes appear in Chinese Desert
China’s Long March rocket blasts off shooting Shenzhou 8 into orbit
China was never invited to the ISS party and the government wasn't too happy about that. China decided that it will build its own space station in the coming years and is in the first stages of doing just that. China shot its Shenzhou 8 into space atop its Long March rocket today with a successful launch from the north Gobi desert. The Shenzhou 8 successfully entered orbit.
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Chinese Sunway BlueLight MPP supercomputer hits world’s most powerful list
Supercomputers are insanely powerful machines that have performance that makes your desktop look like a calculator watch from the 80's. These machines can do more calculations in a second that most machines can do in many times that span. China lags behind the world in supercomputer performance but a new supercomputer has come from China called the Sunway BlueLight MPP and it is fast enough to grab a spot on the list of the most powerful in the world.
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PoisonIvy RAT used to hack chemical firms by man in China
The nation of China has been getting a bad rap in these last couple of weeks due to more than one allegation of the country's government hacking sensitive equipment internationally - today it appears that a single man inside the country might extend that press with an unrelated cyber attach of chemical firms in the USA, Bangladesh, and the UK. As China has emphatically denied any hacking on the part of the government in any way at all for the last incident, so too must it made clear here before misinformation is spread: the suspect is a man living in China whose computer system apparently used for the attacks was traced to the United States.
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US Satellites hacked by Chinese Military says Congressional Commission
While it might seem rather terrifying to think about anyone being able to hack into satellites thousands of miles away hanging precariously above our collective heads, it was back in 2007 and 2008 that this reported incident actually took place. It's just today though that the report has surfaced via Bloomberg who state that a congressional commission annual report (to be released next month) has outlined the interference which took place two times, once in 2007, and another inside 2008. China has reportedly denied any involvement.
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Samsung Google Android event set for October 19 in Hong Kong [Official]
Invites have been sent out to those considered worthy of attending what may well be the biggest event in the shared history of Samsung and Google, one taking place LIVE from Hong Kong, China. This event will almost certainly be showing off the newest Android operating system Ice Cream Sandwich working on a Samsung device either called the Nexus Prime or the Galaxy Nexus. One way or another, the 19th of October, Hong Kong (and the 18th of October, USA, for those that understand time zones,) will be the date of the big Samsung Unpacked event that was cancelled last week. Can you even contain your excitement at a time like this?!
RSA claims a nation state had to be behind server hack
Back in March, the security firm RSA announced that its servers had been hacked. The irony of a security firm being hacked wasn't lost on many. The issue the hack raised was that RSA issues the security tokens that are used to protect networks all around the country including some networks that have classified information on them relating to the military. The data stolen eventually helped facilitate and attack on military contractor Lockheed Martin.
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Android Market blocked by Chinese Government
It appears that China and Google are butting horns again, this time with Google on the losing end with a complete block of their mobile OS Android's apps market being completely blocked throughout several major regions in the country. Speculation around the situation points to no less than the virtual visit of the Dalai Lama to South Africa. Seem sort of disparate? Those of you following the life and adventures of the Lama know that he and China have minced words more than once, and for those of us conspiracy theorists in the tech world, here's the skivvy: China may well have simply been looking for an excuse to block Google's mobile OS so that they could dominate in-country with their own.
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Pixel Qi and Shizhu Technology team for tablet project
Pixel Qi Corp and Shanghai Shizhu Technology have teamed up to work together on tablets in China. Pixel Qi makes a line of very nice sunlight readable screens for portable devices. Shizhu is a company that makes tablets and multimedia devices. The two firms will work together on a family of tablets. The family is said to have four products.
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Chinese dude bathes with eels, one swims up his penis
I know how you early morning types like your weird, so here it is. I know that eels and leeches are different, but the last time I was this grossed out at the thought of a slimy thing getting on private parts was in that Stand by Me scene where he finds the leech in a place guys don't even want to think about. Prepare to squirm guys, you have been warned. Apparently, in China a treatment to make your skin look better is to bathe with some sort of slimy eels.
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Asus set to start shipping WAVI Xtion motion sensing device for PC in October
The Microsoft Kinect for the Xbox 360 has found itself being used for all sorts of things outside of gaming on the Xbox 360 console. That has led other firms to try to get in on the motion control action using their own motion control systems and so far no one has managed to be successful. Asus is trying its hand at motion control for the PC with the WAVI Xtion that was first shown off back in January.
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Dell and Baidu are working together on tablet computers and mobile phones
In China, the Baidu search engine is the most popular and widely used. Google operates in China as well, but is second place behind Baidu. China is also one of the fastest growing markets for tablets and has one of the largest mobile phone using populations on the planet. Dell is teaming up with Baidu to make new mobile phones and tablet computers for the Chinese market.
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