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Austria’s Foreign Ministry Confirms ‘Serious Cyber-Attack’
It’s pretty well known that there are various organizations (and even countries) that are dedicated to hacking sensitive information from various governments around the work. It seems, however, that Austria may be the latest high-profile victim. In a report via the BBC, Austria’s foreign ministry has confirmed that it has…
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Hotel Ransomed After Hackers Lock Guests’ Rooms
A four-star hotel in Austria was forced to pay ransom worth thousands of Bitcoins after hackers took control of its electronic locking system, preventing guests from either leaving or entering their rooms. The renowned Romantik Seehotel Jaegerwirt, positioned at the foot of the Alps, revealed details of the theft to…
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Amazon Prime Air Opens Research Outpost in Austria
Amazon Prime Air is an idea that has been in the works for a while now, with a simple premise of cutting down on delivery times by employing fleets of drones to carry packages to customers. Of course, such a cutting-edge venture has run into a lot of issues since…
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Hyperloop is Coming to Europe
With Elon Musk’s Hyperloop currently stalled on US soil, a crowdsourced engineering project could bring the ‘mass transit system of the future’ to three European countries. Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) has agreed a deal in Slovakia which aims to connect three European capital cities via Hyperloop tracks: Slovakia’s Bratislava will…
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Migaloo Your Way To a Mobile Private Island
The opportunities for the super wealthy to indulge their exotic tastes seems pretty endless, from purchasing a premier league club to the finest penthouse architecture; anything is possible for your average Mr B Gates. A private mobile island, on the other hand, must be in the mind of an ideological…
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Three Austrian Men Receive First Bionic Hands
Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world’s first bionic man. The well-known quote spoken during the opening sequence of The Six Million Dollar Man is not science fiction anymore. The world’s first bionic reconstructions have been performed on three Austrian…
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21 Countries And Rising Have Joined Anti-NSA UN Resolution Discussions
RT reports that 21 countries have joined in draft discussions at the UN for an anti-NSA resolution to be passed. In the discussions are the following nations: Argentina, Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba, Ecuador, France, Germany, Guyana, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Liechtenstein, Mexico, Norway, Paraguay, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay and Venezuela. The…
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Snowden’s Asylum Options: 1 Withdrawn 10 Rejected 10 Pending
According to reports by RT.com Snowden’s options for political asylum are rapidly evaporating. The NSA whistleblower has withdrawn his application for Asylum to Russia after they told him he could only have asylum if he stopped “damaging” the USA, a condition he was not prepared to agree to. Furthermore Finland,…
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Bolivian Jet Grounded Over Claims Snowden Is Onboard, UN Complaint Ensues
Bolivia’s president Evo Morales was flying back from Russia where he was attending an energy summit when his plane was forced to land in Austria. The reason? Italy, France, Spain and Portugal had all refused to allow his jet to pass through their airspace on the justification that they believed…
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Snowden Releases List Of Countries Contacted For Political Asylum Requests
While it is now relatively common knowledge that the famous internet surveillance NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is stuck in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport, it hasn’t been well documented where he was seeking political asylum up until now. We’ve known he has been in talks with Ecuador, but with that starting to unfold…
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