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E-Passports Can Be Hacked and Cloned in Minutes
A computer researcher proved it by cloning the chips in two British passports and then implanting digital images of Osama bin Laden and a suicide bomber. Both passports passed as genuine by UN approved passport reader software. The entire process took less than an hour.
If it involves [...]
by Benny Goldman for GIZMODO
At the Rock the Bells festival on a Sunday on Randall’s Island New York; Benny asked some of the most important hip-hop artists in the game—and my heroes since childhood—what they hated most about the iPhone. Whether they owned it or not, most of the stars had a good reason [...]
Scientists sent by Greenpeace to Ghana have recently found extreme cases of chemical contamination at two “e-waste” facilities. Soil and water tests were conducted at two electronics scrap yards where various items such as broken computers, monitors, and televisions are shipped from the United States and Europe for processing and extraction of scrap metals…. The [...]
The New York Times picked up on an article about the African-American cuisine known around the world as ‘Soul Food’. The assessment is that this cuisine may become a rarity in the overtly African-descended neighborhood of Harlem, New York USA.
Read here
Soul Food in Harlem
Spread the word for JUNE 17th
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/
Set a Guinness World Record Enjoy a Better Web
Sounds like a good deal, right? All you have to do is get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours - it’s that easy. We’re not asking you to swallow a sword [...]
10 DEEP along with authors David ‘CHINO‘ Villorente & Sacha ‘SHR‘ Jenkins launched ‘PieceBook: The Secret drawings of Graffiti Writers’ in New York on Thursday, June 12th 2 The REED SPACE in Manhattan’s Hip Lower East Side. Sponsors included LTD magazine; PRESTEL Publishing and Heineken Beer.
The event was intended to spread the word about an [...]
Apple introduces iPhone 3G
Apple today unveiled its highly anticipated iPhone 3G. The device “climbs the next mountain” of requiring fast mobile data as well as reducing the price. The connection is the most important feature and downloads websites 2.8 times faster than an iPhone on EDGE; it’s also faster versus rival 3G-capable devices like the [...]
Yes He Can,” Barack Obama Seals The Deal As 1st Black Prez Nominee
written by Brandi Hopper & Rab Bakari
Barack Obama made history June 3rd, winning the Democratic nomination for President and becoming the first black nominee ever, for either party.
According to the New York Post, about 17,000 people came out to the Xcel Energy Center [...]
Guido Sohne
I learned some few weeks ago that my friend passed away in Nairobi. I wanted to post; especially after reading fellow NewsVine posts. But I had to wait until the funeral date was set before I posted my tribute. I couldn’t believe it! But it all makes sense now. On May 8th; I e-mailed [...]
What a wonderful; brilliant; witty and downright satirical essay about … Africa by Binyavanga Wainaina
How to write about Africa!
Read it and leave comments!
New Nigerian Restaurant in New York City. A rare sight indeed!
FESTAC GRILL - 263 Hendrix Street,
East New York, Brooklyn - NY 11207-2623
+1-718-627-5151
Photo by Flickr User -EOS Chaos
While the Senegalese have boldly opened semi-upscale restaurants in Harlem and Clinton Hill, complete with annotated menus, and the Ghanaians have established numerous small groceries and cafés in [...]
Famed musician, freedom fighter and evangelist Sonny Okosuns died Saturday, May 24 at Howard University Teaching Hospital, Washington, D.C., at the age of 61. Considered as one of Nigeria’s leading artists, Mr. Okosuns succumbed after a prolonged battle with colon cancer.
He was one of my favorite pan-African musicians!
The anti-apartheid singer turned evangelist and praise singer [...]
Photo by Lillergy
Sometimes referred to the Manhattan Solstice. This is a semi-annual occurrence in which the setting sun aligns with the east-west streets of Manhattan’s main street grid. The term is derived from Stonehenge, at which the sun aligns with the stones on the solstices. It was coined in 2002 by Neil deGrasse Tyson, an [...]
Take your iPod into the water with you! Hmmm! This seems like a novel idea. Why should people who flex and exercise their muscles while jamming to that motivating song be limited to air and earth? Just check the specs. Hang Gliders in the air mellow out or jam out while fantasizing about being a [...]
Respect to African Unity Day; formally African Liberation Day. Now simply known as Africa Day.
African Liberation Day on May 25 is an annual holiday in various countries in Africa, coinciding with African Union’s Africa Day.
Although there does not exist one central site that gathers images, text, audio and video from global observations; I will mention [...]
