Questions
1. What is the significance of shot of a Montbretia flower, covered in water droplets, taken by a user ‘eon60'?
2. Which cyber-giant has instituted a $250,000 worth ‘BlueHat Prize' contest for security innovation?
3. Which multi-award-winning music artist-producer is Intel's director of creative innovation?
4. What official position is former MS executive Steven VanRoekel taking up in the US?
5. What is the name of the awards ‘celebrating the achievements and failures of security researchers and the security community', given away at the annual Black Hat security conference?
6. What world record did ‘Gulp', a stop motion film, achieve recently?
7. Whose new venture, after quitting as marketing director of her famous sibling's company, is called ‘RtoZ Media', designed “to help companies become more social.”?
8. Name the game that recently became the first ported by Zynga from mobile platforms to Facebook.
9. Name the software package, formerly sponsored by the EFF, that enables its users to access web sites and other Internet services anonymously.
10. Which famous Taiwanese company, associated with Apple, is to replace workers with more than a million robots in the wake of rising labour costs.
Answers
1. It is the 6th billionth photo upload on Flickr.
2. Microsoft.
3. will.i.am.
4. He is the new Federal Chief Information
Officer.
5. Pwnies.
6. It is the largest stop-motion animation
film shot entirely on a smartphone (Nokia N8).
7. Randi Zuckerburg, sister of Mark
Zuckerburg.
8. Words With Friends.
9. Tor (anonymity network).
10. Foxconn.