A trans-Atlantic journey of just sixty minutes has been promised since the dawn of supersonic flight, but is it now closer to reality?

The US Air Force has said an attempt to fly its hypersonic jet Waverider at Mach 6 (3,600mph; 5795km/h) failed.  In late September, a secretive experimental vehicle roared into the clear blue skies above a military base deep within the Arctic Circle in Norway. As the sleek, rocket approached its target altitude of 350km (218 miles), it began to arc back to earth, gradually accelerating to so-called hypersonic speeds of up to Mach 8 – about 9,800km/h (6,100 mph).

The latest version of Apple's increasingly universally accepted cellular phone will be available for purchase worldwide starting on September 28, 2012.

In addition to all its suddenly old features, the new model includes updates for live-in computer aide Siri, a new operating system and a wider screen.  The new iPhone is 18% thinner and 20% lighter than the iPhone 4S. However, it does not feature an NFC (near field communication) chip to allow it to make touch-less payments.

When the mobile phone first arrived on the scene in the eighties, most viewed them as expensive gadgets. Then, they became a daily part of how we communicate, entertain ourselves, read the news, track our sleep, health, weight, diabetes and how we listen to music, book a table at our favorite restaurant, find our way when we are lost and order a taxi or metro tickets.

Arbréole, Intelligent Lights That React to Your Movements Controlled by an Android Phone

"Futur en Seine,"  is an annual digital content and services event that took place recently in Paris, brought together more than 80 prototypes and innovative devices that could be part of our lives in the future.  "Futur en Seine" is the brain child of Cap Digital, a unique public/private non profit cluster for digital content and services. They do a lot of things, but in general they connect people, organizations, universities and labs so they can innovate together and do more globally. The event includes lectures, workshops and panel sessions presented by innovators, CEOs, designers and researchers from the digital industry.

Recent Breach Extends Beyond Yahoo to Gmail, Hotmail, AOL and Other Users

Yahoo confirmed that a file containing more than 400,000 user names and passwords to Yahoo and other companies was stolen in early July, 2012. A group of hackers, known as the D33D Company, posted usernames and passwords for what appeared to be 453,492 accounts belonging to Yahoo, but also Gmail, AOL, Hotmail, Comcast, MSN, SBC Global, Verizon, BellSouth and Live.com users.

The hackers wrote a brief footnote to the data dump, which has since been pulled offline: "We hope that the parties responsible for managing the security of this sub-domain will take this as a wake-up call, and not as a threat. There have been many security holes exploited in Web servers belonging to Yahoo Inc. that have caused far greater damage than our disclosure. Please do not take them lightly. The sub-domain and vulnerable parameters have not been posted to avoid further damage."

Flame may be the most powerful computer virus in history, and a nation-state is most likely to blame for unleashing it on the World Wide Web.  Iran appears to be the primary target of the data-snatching virus that has swept through the Middle East, though other countries have also been affected.  Flame was first spotted by the Russians in 2010, though it may have been wrecking havoc on computer s

ystems for many years, although cyber-war has been intensifying recently. Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab believes a state is behind the attack.