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Pirate Bay defendants found guilty

Pirate Bay defendants found guilty

Saturday, April 18, 2009 0:29

A Swedish court on Friday found the four defendants in the high-profile Pirate Bay case guilty, sentencing each to a year in jail. The defendants were also ordered to pay a total of 30 million Swedish kronor ($3.6 million) in damages to copyright holders, among them a number of American ...

The new Concorde: Supersonic, London to New York in just 3 hours

The new Concorde: Supersonic, London to New York in just 3 hours

Friday, October 24, 2008 8:13

It is five years ago almost to the day that Concorde approached Heathrow airport under much fanfare and nostalgia on its last official flight before heading off into retirement. In a move which for some people signalled a step backwards for technology, the Anglo-French aviation-engineering masterpiece touched down and with it ...

Palin e-mail intruder left digital trail

Palin e-mail intruder left digital trail

Wednesday, September 24, 2008 13:06

By Friday, investigators and amateur sleuths quickly found that the person who illegally accessed the Yahoo e-mail account of vice presidential candidate and Alaskan governor Sarah Palin apparently made at least two errors. First, in the screenshots uploaded to Wikileaks by the intruder, most of the unique address generated by ...