This year I’v decided I’m going to ask explicitly what I want for Christmas. And all I want is the Opel Manta GSe ElektroMOD. Opelunveiledthis beauty in May and since then I just can’t stop thinking about it. I mean, just look at it… Yes,I’m sucker for reimagined classic vehicles, and I have to say that Opel has done an amazing job here. The traditional proportions of the new EV instantly recall theManta A, the 1970s classic coupe, only now it’s equipped with an electric heart....

All News International website are now offline after the rampant attacks by hacking groupLulzsec. Websites for The Sun, The Times and News International are all inaccessible after the hacking spree. Whatbeganwith the redirection of The Sun’s homepage to a false report of Rupert Murdoch’s death has resulted in News International seemingly being forced to shut down its servers after being unable to handle the relentless attacks from the group. A Twitter account from a member of the Anonymous group, who have been working closely with Lulzsec,confirmsthe servers have been shut down....

There isn’t a single application that has had a greater influence on my knowledge of trivia thanAll of Wikipedia. In the few days I’ve owned the app I’ve learnt (amongst many other things): that Steve Jobs is Disney’s largest shareholder, that there are more languages spoken in London than in any other city in the world and that if two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together....

Your average software engineer is still in love with Python. Married, even. But not those at Google, Uber, Dropbox, Soundcloud, Slack, and Medium. The programmers at top corporations have long fallen for the language withthe cute mascot. That’s not to say that Python is no good. It’s great! But whether it’s for APIs, web services, or data processing — while most developers are still using Python, top-performers are adopting Golang, or Go, more and more....

Microsoft is determined to keep the coming Mango update to the WP7 phone line in the news, and to do so is explaining its component parts in various blog posts. We won’t be covering each of them obviously, buttoday’s releasefrom Microsoft concerns Mango’s changes to the WP7 Games Hub, something that is important for both the WP7 line and the Xbox community. As it impacts two areas of Microsoft, we feel that bringing you the details is worthwhile....