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Great news keep coming from the red planet. Curiosity has opened her eyes for the first time. She took a good look around her and decided that life is good in Mars—albeit a bit lonely. Updated: New images coming in, including panoramas and high definition images from the descent. The Navigation Cameras—the eyes that will guide her around Mars—have been activated and they are beaming perfect images down to Earth. The left camera may have had a problem at the beginning, because at first the image was all dark and with a weird white artifact. It actually looked as if she had eyelids and was slowly waking up. This didn't happened with the right camera, which was sending perfect images from the moment it was turned on. I can imagine someone at mission control singing Oh You Pretty Things! in his or her head. "Wake up you sleepy head, put on some clothes, shake up your bed..." The first two images sent by the left Navcam—on the left—looked black and showed a weird artifact. T...

A gun safe's purpose is obvious in its name, but many readily available models fail to deliver, as this 3-year-old safe-cracker is quick to demonstrate. A number of consumer-grade safes already proven to be dangerously insecure are now due to be hacked apart at DefCon. One of the worst offenders includes the Amsec EST916 which has been shown to open with just a jostle or two. It's not exactly clear from the video below whether the safe is re-locked after being closed, but even so, its inability to stay shut after just a drop or two makes it bad even for a cabinet. Of the other safes up for DefCon scrutiny none are bad enough that they can be fumbled open, but many are vulnerable to even the most crude attempts at access. One model of Stack-On bio-metric safes, for instance, can be opened simply by placing a paperclip or key-blank in the key hole. Yet another safe can be bypassed by prodding at the latch with a flattened straw. Not all of these safes are marketed as being gun ...

A gun safe's purpose is obvious in its name, but many readily available models fail to deliver, as this 3-year-old safe-cracker is quick to demonstrate. A number of consumer-grade safes already proven to be dangerously insecure are now due to be hacked apart at DefCon. One of the worst offenders includes the Amsec EST916 which has been shown to open with just a jostle or two. It's not exactly clear from the video below whether the safe is re-locked after being closed, but even so, its inability to stay shut after just a drop or two makes it bad even for a cabinet. Of the other safes up for DefCon scrutiny none are bad enough that they can be fumbled open, but many are vulnerable to even the most crude attempts at access. One model of Stack-On bio-metric safes, for instance, can be opened simply by placing a paperclip or key-blank in the key hole. Yet another safe can be bypassed by prodding at the latch with a flattened straw. Not all of these safes are marketed as being gun ...

Billy Gallagher is a writer for TechCrunch. He is also the president and editor in chief of The Stanford Daily. Billy previously worked at The Stanford Daily for two volumes as a managing editor of news. He has also worked in sports and staff development at The Daily. In March of 2012 the Friends of The Stanford Daily awarded him... ? Learn More Facebook announced today that they have opened a London engineering office, adding to their Menlo Park, New York and Seattle engineering offices. The company has 22 open positions at the new office. Facebook says it has engineers scattered at its other numerous U.S. and foreign offices, but this is the first official international engineering office. Calling the city a “perfect fit” in a blog post earlier today, Facebook software engineer and London team leader Philip Su wrote, “Our team in London will start small, focusing on building a core of great engineers, and then grow over time and eventually focus on building products in key areas li...