Innovative farmers in the ailing farm industry have been transforming their working farms into Farm Parks, and there is a difference. The whole raison d’être of farm parks is to welcome visitors, particularly children, to feed, pet, cuddle and generally enjoy baby animals. It’s a matter of out with the Friesians and in with the [...]
The China-based cyber-spy network known as “GhostNet” is a sophisticated group of hackers capable of logging its victims’ keystrokes, stealing their documents, capturing images from their screens—and staring creepily at them through their webcams.
In a report released last month, Canadian researchers concluded that GhostNet has cracked at least 1,295 computers in 103 different countries, specifically [...]
A new webcam mounted on the Blue Fin Building at Bankside allows local residents to get a glimpse behind the hoardings as preparatory works for Tate Modern’s extension get under way. The webcam captures an image of the building site to the south west of the existing Tate Modern gallery every 15 minutes during the [...]
The St Mawes Ferry Company has fitted a live webcam to one of its ferries, the Duchess of Cornwall, which runs all year round between St Mawes and Falmouth. Mounted in the Duchess’ wheelhouse the webcam uses 3G mobile technology to upload an image every 10 seconds on to the ferry’s website. Once online visitors [...]
A tenacious technophile helped Boston police recover his two stolen laptops by remotely activating one notebook’s webcam and spying on the Stoughton family who was using it.
But Waltham entrepreneur Josh Bob, 30, didn’t stop there: He recorded the surveillance videos and posted them on his blog.
“It was frustrating, no question, but to be honest, I [...]
Live webcams have come a long way in the last few years and their uses are as wide as the imagination. Webcams have been used for crime spotting, pet-sitting, baby-minding and more. There is even a webcam focused on Loch Ness just in case “Nessie” makes an appearance. The Nessie webcam has a camera attached [...]
This is a cool site to watch the preparations for Saturday’s Ceremonial Start of Iditarod 2010. It’s unlike any other event in the world. A race over 1,150 miles of the most extreme and beautiful terrain known to man: across mountain ranges, frozen rivers, dense forests, desolate tundra and windswept coastline …
More webcam from Alaska [...]
The now infamous webcam spycam case near Philadelphia is gaining speed and is becoming more and more interesting as privacy experts are weighing in to debate the use of webcams on school computers.
In case you missed it, the parents of a high school student have filed suit against a Pennsylvania school district alleging a school [...]
A violent late winter storm with fierce rain and hurricane-strength winds battered France, Spain and Portugal on Sunday, leaving at least 45 people dead.
Many of the 40 victims in France drowned, while others died when hit by parts of buildings or trees and branches that were ripped off by the wind. At least a dozen [...]
As the sun sets on February 27, 2010, the day that a massive earthquake struck off the shore of Chile, people console one another next to a destroyed building in Talca.
The magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the coast at 2:34 a.m., local time, and has killed at least 200 people in Chile. The earthquake also [...]