The “future of flying” is now here today. All Nippon Airway’s four hour flight 7871 on Wednesday from Tokyo to Hong Kong is the culmination of Boeing’s vision for the next generation of customer air travel. The new 787 Dreamliner made its first commercial flight. The craft are made from composite material – reinforced carbon fibre – which is lighter and therefore considerably more fuel efficient. Airlines are expecting to save around 20% in fuel costs on each flight.
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Gaming internet forums have gone into a frenzy – Grand Theft Auto is back. Rockstar Games yesterday confirmed plans for the new version, Grand Theft Auto V, announcing that a trailer will be released on its website on 2nd November. Currently the headline space on the website is a digital clock counting down the seconds. It is a brilliant marketing ploy that is guaranteed to have maximum impact on the day. The owners of one of the biggest franchises in gaming history have also put up the new logo which features the Roman numeral V, depicted in the style of a US banknote. It is certainly designed to tantalise and it has sent the rumour mill into overdrive. The internet is awash with rumours, citing “unnamed sources” and the like giving “best guestimates” of what the new game will comprise of. They can’t all be right.
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A large study based in Denmark has found no evidence that long term mobile phone users are at an increased risk of developing cancerous brain tumours. The team from the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Copenhagen studied over 358,403 people who took out mobile phone contracts before 1996 over an 18 year period, and comparing brain tumour rates in those people with people who did not subscribe for a mobile phone. In searching for new diagnoses of the very rare occurrences of brain tumours between 1990 and 2007 they concluded that there was no significant link between mobile phone use and brain cancer.
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An ultra-sophisticated computer virus related to the legendary Stuxnet worm has been discovered in Europe leading cyber security professionals to warn that a massive cyber attack may be in the offing. The “Duqu” virus is the second major weaponized virus with the capability to adapt computers to gain devastating destructive power. The new virus which was discovered by researchers at Symantec on Tuesday, uses much of the same code as the 2010 Stuxnet virus leading to the conclusion that the new programme must have been written by programmers with access to the original Stuxnet source code.
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