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Hong Kong Stock Exchange Attacked By Hackers

8:40AM August 12, 2011 | Alyssa Bereznak

As if stock markets of the world needed any more problems after the recent US credit downgrade and the market catastrophe that followed. Yesterday, trading in seven Hong Kong stocks stopped after the exchange’s website was shut down by an attack. Poor poor stock market guys. More »

Mobile

The Great Chinese iPad Zipline Smuggling Ring

4:21AM August 9, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

You’ve got to admire the audacity of the Chinese hucksters who were illegally importing iPads and iPhones across the border from Hong Kong, by way of a rope-and-pulley system, triggered by a crossbow and desire to make some cash. More »

Science

Scientists Ruin Science Fiction By Proving Time Travel Is Impossible

11:20PM July 25, 2011 | Jack Loftus

Science decided to be unfun this morning. Physicists at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology demonstrated that a single photon cannot be accelerated beyond the speed of light. This implies that faster-than-light time travel is impossible. FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU… More »

Cameras

Someone Help Wife Of Man With Over 1000 Instant Cameras

10:20PM May 12, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

Mind you, if I were TM Wong’s wife, I could happily put up with the clutter if I got to try out a new instant camera every day for close to three years. More »

Entertainment

3D Porno Tops Avatar’s Single-Day Box Office Record In Hong Kong

11:07PM April 21, 2011 | Brian Barrett

For the last several years, the single-day box office king in Hong Kong has been Avatar. People love giant blue cat-people! But not, apparently, as much as they love full frontal nudity. Because after grossing $US340,000 US on 73 screens, 3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy has taken Hong Kong’s single-day box office crown. More »

Cameras

I Want To Bounce On A Giant Film Camera Trampoline

7:40PM April 21, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

If you happen to be in Hong Kong before May 3rd, check out this giant Lomography exhibition in the Times Square shopping mall. You can jump on giant trampoline replicas of Lomography’s well-known camera models, or take a pew on one of the oversized film rolls. More »

Computing

Can’t Get An iPad 2? Blame It On Asians

5:41AM March 22, 2011 | Jason Chen

We knew people in Asia were paying people in the US to line up for iPad 2s to ship overseas, but we didn’t know it was this bad. The New York Post says more than half of the 400 people in line at 8am gave their iPads to a guy in a BMW X5 for cash. More »

Computing

Grey Market iPad 2s Sells For Double Overseas

4:28AM March 15, 2011 | Jason Chen

The iPad 2 may be sold out here, but it’s not even for sale anywhere else in the world. So what do people do? Buy units here and send them to places like Hong Kong, where the $US500 16GB Wi-Fi model resells for $US1014. More »

News

South Korea’s Answer To Hong Kong

8:00AM March 11, 2011 | John D. Kasarda and Greg Lindsay

This used to just be a marsh. But by 2015 the unlikely partnership of a New Jersey office park developer and the South Korean government will have transformed it into a bustling, LEED-certified, metropolis the size of downtown Boston. Could this become the city of the future? In Aerotropolis, we see how this prefabricated city came to be. More »

Geek Out

Old White Airline Passenger Turns Into Young Asian Man Mid-Flight

2:51AM November 6, 2010 | Adrian Chen

Yes, both of these pictures are of the same guy. To the right is how he looked when he boarded Air Canada flight AC018 from Hong Kong to Vancouver. The picture on the left is what he turned into. More »