The large impact on Jupiter’s south polar region as captured by Nasa’s infrared telescope facility in Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Photograph: Nasa/AP
An amateur Australian astronomer looking through his backyard telescope has discovered that a large comet or asteroid has crashed into Jupiter, creating a hole the size of the Earth in the planet’s atmosphere.
Anthony Wesley, 44, a [...]
US law enforcement officials arrested a former Goldman Sachs employee over the weekend, accusing him of stealing sensitive automated trading codes and uploading them to a server based in Germany.
Sergey Aleynikov, a computer programmer who joined Goldman in May 2007 and resigned last month, was arrested as he disembarked from a flight at Newark airport [...]
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Source: FT.com
We made it. Christmas, new year and the End-of-the-World-Armageddon-Apocalypse.
But 2009 is all about survival. And what better way to prepare than to become a survivalist? Survivalist websites and books were last year’s sleeper hit, no longer the preserve of lone wackos. Barton Biggs, former chief global strategist for Morgan Stanley, rebranded survivalism “sensible”. In [...]