We’re starting to think the Russians have an inside track on high-resolution space photos. When Nokia’s 41-megapixel photo of Earth’s horizon was just a twinkle in the 808 PureView designers’ eyes, the Russian Federal Space Agency had long since finished taking 121-megapixel photos of the whole planet that we’re just now seeing in earnest. Unlike NASA photos, which are usually composites of multiple shots, the Elektro-L weather satellite’s images display the entire planet in one ridiculously detailed take from 22,369 miles away
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Visualized: 121-megapixel satellite photos show Earth in glorious, psychedelic detail (video)
Despite its loud anti-piracy notice, Andrey Fedotov’s HackStore sees no issue in ripping off the official App Store’s interface. 
Apple Mac computers are being struck by a variation of the Flashback Trojan. A Russian anti-virus site reckons 600,000 machines have been infected 
On the plus side, the fish needed additional space probe parts. On Sunday night, fragments of Russia’s Phobos-Grunt probe landed in the Pacific Ocean 1,250 kilometers to the west of Wellington Island in southern Chile around 17:45 GMT. The probe, which experienced a failure with its launch rocket machinery on November 8, had become marooned in Earth’s orbit, destined to crash back home. 
At AMD’s Fusion Developer Summit 2011 AMD announced Graphics Core Next , their next-generation GPU architecture. 
