Here’s Proof That Hurricane Sandy Is Nothing Like Irene

The photo on the left is a screenshot of Hurricane Irene, taken from the Weather Channel’s iPad app. The photo on the right side shows the same app screen of Hurricane Sandy, taken today at 1:20 p.m.

Last year, New York City boarded up its stores and shut down its subways in preparation for the worst of Hurricane Irene. While the outer boroughs experienced heavy flooding and power outages, the storm didn’t have the impact on Manhattan that meteorologists had projected and the city had prepared for.

So when warnings of Hurricane Sandy flooded the nightly news, some New Yorkers compared the storm to that of Irene. But the side-by-side illustration above shows that the size of Hurricane Irene pales to that of Sandy, a system that is also dubbed “Frankenstorm.”

Similarly, this GIF also shows the two storms’ size as they raged towards the Eastern coastline.

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TeamGhostShell Hackers Dump Millions of Records of Banks, Politicians

TeamGhostShell, a hacking collective linked with the infamous group Anonymous, is claiming that they have hacked some major US institutions including the likes of CIA, banks and accounts of politicians and has posted those details online.

The dumps comprising of millions of accounts has been let loose on the web by the hacking collective. The motivation behind the hack, the group claims, is to protest against banks, politicians and to avenge the hackers who have been captured by law enforcement agencies.

The leader of TeamGhostShell, DeadMellox, reported the hack through a tweet. Records, containing details of CIA accounts/records, banks, politicians, were leaked under the project dubbed ProjectHellFire and the hackers have said that more will follow.

“We are also letting everyone know that more releases, collaborations with Anonymous and other, plus two more projects are still scheduled for this fall and winter. It’s only the beginning.” the hackers said.

The hackers have also claimed that they are in possession of “three different access points” to millions, probably billions, of databases from a Chinese mainframe; US stock exchange mainframe/s; and Department of Homeland Security which they are going to offer to deserving hackers.

The dumps have been posted here, here, here and here.

[Update @ 11:11 UT]: The hackers have mentioned the name CIA which is basically a company named C.I.A. Services and not the Central Intelligence Agency of the US. For this reason we have omitted the name CIA from the title as well as the content of the story.

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Apple is richer than the US Government

According to a recent report by the Financial Post, Apple has more cash than the U.S government. Apple reported the quarterly earnings of US$ 75.876 billion till the 25th of June 2011 . The U.S government reported total operating balance of US$ 73.768 billion on Thursday , which is lesser than Apple.

Apple has seen tremendous growth since they introduced their first iPhone in the year of 2007. According to the recent report from IDC, Apple still holds the 4th place, based on the worldwide mobile phone shipments in Q2 2011 and the shipments have increased 141.8% when compared to Q2 2010.

These figures are not directly comparable, since the U.S government’s balance amount is the amount of money they can spend before they hit the debts and the Apple’s earnings are the revenues from the sales. Based on the market capitalization, Apple is the second largest company in the world after Exxon Mobil.

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