Category Archives: NEWSBYTES

Power outages threaten a dark Christmas for thousands

Most of you who subscribe to our newsletters know that Cloudeight is located in Michigan…and unfortunately, we’re not immune to the terrible ice and snow storm which rumbled through Michigan last weekend. Yep, we’re still without power — three days after the storm. Our Christmas will be a unique one for sure. We have taken care of all… Read More »

Your wireless router could be murdering your houseplants

Are you slowly killing your houseplants? Probably! But there might be a reason (other than neglect) why they’re all yellow and wilty: your Wi-Fi router. An experiment by a handful of high school students in Denmark has sparked some serious international interest in the scientific community. Five ninth-grade girls at Hjallerup School in North Jutland, Denmark, noticed they… Read More »

China’s moon rover takes its first photo

First, China takes over the world economy, now it looks like they’re going to take over the moon. Honest! Many conspiracy theorists will tell you the U. S. never landed on the moon in 1969 — it was all just a movie set. I wonder what they’ll make of these Chinese pictures from the moon. You’d think since… Read More »

What The Heck Will Google Do With These Scary Military Robots?

This comes to us via Forbes…a publication, we as poor folks. don’t normally read. But we found this article interesting and somewhat unsettling. What do you think? What The Heck Will Google Do With These Scary Military Robots? Let’s see, we have a company that already knows everything about us, has possibly the world’s largest computer network, has… Read More »

FBI: Malware Developers

It seems every day there is something else in the news about our government encroaching on our personal lives. Now it has been revealed that the FBI hackers have been developing malware. It’s not surprising; I think most of us know the government hires the best hackers and pays them well. So here you go… This Ars Technica… Read More »