Today in the news:
– Tightrope master Nik Wallenda crosses the Grand Canyon with NO safety harness
– Millions exposed by Facebook data glitch
– And Tennis super star Maria Sharapova launches her new business brand
Daredevil Nik Wallenda has completed an impressive tightrope walk that took him a quarter mile over the Little Colorado River Gorge in northeastern Arizona. Wallenda performed the stunt late on Sunday on a 2-inch-thick steel cable, 1,500 feet above the river on the Navajo Nation near the Grand Canyon. He took just more than 22 minutes, pausing and crouching twice as strong winds made the rope sway. Wallenda didn’t wear a harness and stepped slowly and steady throughout, murmuring prayers to Jesus almost constantly along the way. He jogged and hopped the last few steps. Wallenda is now hoping his next stunt would be a tightrope walk between the Empire State building and the Chrysler building in New York.
Personal details of about six million people have been inadvertently exposed by a bug in Facebook’s data archive.
The bug meant email and telephone numbers were accidentally shared with people that would not otherwise have had access to the information. Facebook is “upset and embarrassed” by the bug, which was found by a programmer outside the company.
An investigation into the bug showed that contact details for about six million people were inadvertently shared. Despite this, Facebook said the “practical impact” had been small because information was most likely to have been shared with people who already knew the affected individuals. The bug had now been fixed, it added. Facebook was alerted to the bug by a member of its “White Hat” program who checks the site’s code for glitches and other loopholes. A bounty for the bug has been paid to the programmer who found it.
Tennis star Maria Sharapova, who is currently competing at Wimbledon , has launched her own business and for some strange reason she chose to sell sweets. The 26-year-old has taken the first steps to becoming her own brand, and creating a new business career, with her Sugarpova sweets, which were just launched in the UK. She is hoping her new sweets brand will become one of the biggest premium confectionery names in the world. It took her two years to create the sweets, which were launched in the US last year. According to Forbes, she has total career earnings of $26m and is rated by the business magazine as the 22nd highest paid athlete in the world, and the top female one. Some criticism has come her way for launching a sugar-based product when much of the Western world, including the US and UK, has an obesity epidemic, but then again who can resist the Sugarpova?!
Today in the news:
– Tightrope master Nik Wallenda crosses the Grand Canyon with NO safety harness
– Millions exposed by Facebook data glitch
– And Tennis super star Maria Sharapova launches her new business brand
Daredevil Nik Wallenda has completed an impressive tightrope walk that took him a quarter mile over the Little Colorado River Gorge in northeastern Arizona. Wallenda performed the stunt late on Sunday on a 2-inch-thick steel cable, 1,500 feet above the river on the Navajo Nation near the Grand Canyon. He took just more than 22 minutes, pausing and crouching twice as strong winds made the rope sway. Wallenda didn’t wear a harness and stepped slowly and steady throughout, murmuring prayers to Jesus almost constantly along the way. He jogged and hopped the last few steps. Wallenda is now hoping his next stunt would be a tightrope walk between the Empire State building and the Chrysler building in New York.
Personal details of about six million people have been inadvertently exposed by a bug in Facebook’s data archive.
The bug meant email and telephone numbers were accidentally shared with people that would not otherwise have had access to the information. Facebook is “upset and embarrassed” by the bug, which was found by a programmer outside the company.
An investigation into the bug showed that contact details for about six million people were inadvertently shared. Despite this, Facebook said the “practical impact” had been small because information was most likely to have been shared with people who already knew the affected individuals. The bug had now been fixed, it added. Facebook was alerted to the bug by a member of its “White Hat” program who checks the site’s code for glitches and other loopholes. A bounty for the bug has been paid to the programmer who found it.
Tennis star Maria Sharapova, who is currently competing at Wimbledon , has launched her own business and for some strange reason she chose to sell sweets. The 26-year-old has taken the first steps to becoming her own brand, and creating a new business career, with her Sugarpova sweets, which were just launched in the UK. She is hoping her new sweets brand will become one of the biggest premium confectionery names in the world. It took her two years to create the sweets, which were launched in the US last year. According to Forbes, she has total career earnings of $26m and is rated by the business magazine as the 22nd highest paid athlete in the world, and the top female one. Some criticism has come her way for launching a sugar-based product when much of the Western world, including the US and UK, has an obesity epidemic, but then again who can resist the Sugarpova?!