A security flaw in Apple iPhone allows unauthorized users to gain easy access to private contacts and e-mails even when the device is locked, but the company said a fix is on the way, according to Gizmodo. The techi-blog said that it only took them three taps to gain access to locked iPhones, which run the latest 2.02 iPhone software.
“X-Files” and “Californication” star David Duchovny has checked himself into rehab to undergo treatment for sex addiction.
“I have voluntarily entered a facility for the treatment of sex addiction,” Duchovny said in a press statement. “I ask for respect and privacy for my wife and children as we deal with this situation as a family.”
A vast region of the Amazon forest in Brazil was home to a complex of ancient towns in which about 50,000 people lived, according to scientists assisted by satellite images of the region, says a report from Reuters. Scientists looking over the imagery described clusters of towns and smaller villages connected by complex road networks and housing a society doomed by the arrival of Europeans five centuries ago. It is likely the inhabitants were scattered or killed off by the arrival of Europeans and the diseases they carried with them from the Old World. These ancient settlements, consisting of networks of walled towns and smaller villages organized around a central plaza, are now almost entirely overgrown by the forest.
“These are not cities, but this is urbanism, built around towns,” University of Florida anthropologist Mike Heckenberger said in a statement. “If we look at your average medieval town or your average Greek polis, most are about the scale of those we find in this part of the Amazon. Only the ones we find are much more complicated in terms of their planning,” Heckenberger added.
Sony Pictures is auctioning off a Spider-Man 4 VIP experience on eBay to raise money for cancer research. The package includes a visit to the set, a one-hour meet and greet with the cast, a walk-on role in the film, a trip to the New York premiere and designer outfits to wear on the red carpet. The proceeds from the auction will go to benefit “Stand Up to Cancer” with bidding starting at $5,000. All bids will close on September 5 at 7:00PM PT.
Astronomers have captured images of a powerful collision of galaxy clusters and say it may shed light on the behavior of dark matter, according to science reporter Maggie Fox. The scientists used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope to study the cluster, known a MACSJ0025.4-1222. They can see a clear separation between dark and ordinary matter, answering a crucial question about whether dark matter interacts with itself other than via gravitational forces.
Screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, known for such hits as TV’s “Lost” and the big screen success of “Transformers,” recently told an interviewer that when their friend J.J. Abrams commissioned them to write a script for the next big “Star Trek” film, a prequel to the original series and its characters wasn’t what they had in mind so much as a revisiting of familiar characters at a time before they became these iconic characters in the pantheon of sci-fi mythos.
“…it was amazing when we went back to look at ‘Star Trek,’ no one had ever done the story about how the original crew came together,” stated Orci. “[…] there’s five thousand hours of ‘Star Trek’ and no one ever covered how they all met. So in a way that was liberating in that no one had stated how that happened exactly,” Orci continued. “And because we had been fans truly-who knew all those years sitting in front of the TV watching ‘Transformers’ and ‘Star Trek’ that we weren’t wasting our time. It was all tax deductible. It was daunting, but we thought, if we can’t do it, then no one can! No, not exactly. But it was like we had been called to duty and it would have felt cowardly to back away just because ‘it has been forty years, what can we do?'”
Kurtzman added that when approached with this daunting task they were both a bit taken back and frightened, mostly because they didn’t want to screw it up.
“At first, we were scared, not because we didn’t think it was worthy, it was we didn’t think we were worthy of it.” said Kurtzman.
“Star Trek” premieres on May 8, 2009.
Bleyddyn says
Does anyone have a link for the Gizmodo iPhone article? I haven’t been able to find anything about the hack.
Greg says
Bleyddyn,
Here it is.
http://gizmodo.com/5043260/apple-acknowledges-huge-iphone-security-flaw-calls-it-minor-announces-fix