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Flame on!

—srikanth @ May 28, 2012

Shocking bit of tech-related drama, this. (1) has mom in the foreground, and dad in the background. The couple cofounded a famous firm. Their son (2) was kidnapped for ransom last year, but some speculate it might have had something to do with the company.

Name the company.

Cracked by: Ananth, badideabear, Sumanth Patlolla, vinayaknp, Manish Achuth, username, arpit mehta, KK, Bipin Banavalikar, Bharath, Rogi, Logik, rickde, Amarendra Kumar, Jayaprakash B R, Dibyo, Vishnu Prashanth, debjani and Shwetha Maiya

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Kaspersky Labs.

Splat!

—srikanth @ May 23, 2012

What happened next?

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Ananth, raklodramA, Rogi, Manish Achuth, Vishnu Prashanth, KK, Bharath, Logik, badideabear, Anjul, Dibyo and nandhaksamy

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Mythbusters teamed up with NVIDIA to create this weird GPU demonstration. Tons of paintballs were shot out of the tubes to ‘paint’ a Mona Lisa onto the screen.

You're hot and you're cold

—srikanth @ May 22, 2012

Connect/Identify:

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, Ananth, Rogi, Vishnu Prashanth, KK, Bharath, Logik, badideabear, bhargava, Jayaprakash B R and Dibyo

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Sadi Carnot of Carnot cycle fame

All of you - on my command - shake !

—srikanth @ May 21, 2012

Each circle/squiggly line represents an ’event’ of at least 4.0. What does this map show?

Cracked by: Bharath and Rogi

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An automated quake-catcher network (run using BOINC) that tracks seismic activity using laptop accelerometers.

Wow!

—srikanth @ May 20, 2012

Simple - identify the lady:

Cracked by: Rogi, Vishnu Prashanth, Manish Achuth, Bipin Banavalikar, Logik, KK, Bharath, rickde, Sumanth Patlolla, badideabear, Amarendra Kumar, Ananth and Shwetha Maiya

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Jill Tarter - Astronomer and SETI member (also the inspiration for Jodie Foster’s character in Contact)

That's so meta

—srikanth @ May 18, 2012

Plaintext question. Googling will be severely frowned upon.

What are these some examples of:
Server: ‘; DROP TABLE servertypes; –
X-nananana: Batcache
X-Fry: Please, Mr. Nixon! We’re appealing to your sense of decency!

Cracked by: badideabear, Ananth, Bharath, Manish Achuth, rickde, Sujoy, Rogi, KK, Sumanth Patlolla and raklodramA

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Easter eggs hidden in HTTP headers returned by many popular sites (reddit, wordpress, and an older slashdot). Check boiledbeans.net for some fun :P

Stick your tongue out and blow.

—srikanth @ May 17, 2012

Connect the three:

Cracked by: Dibyo, Manish Achuth, Manoj, badideabear, Ananth, finkle, Bharath, rickde, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, KK, Bipin Banavalikar and sanador

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The BBC created the BBC micro as an educational computer (launching Acorn which eventually became ARM). The Raspberry Pi foundation created the Pi inspired by the BBC micro (which, interestingly, is centered around a powerful ARM processor)

Look closer.

—srikanth @ May 14, 2012

Slightly obscure question. What are these tiny devices called? They were created more as an amusement than a scientific instrument. The bottom part of (2) is a good clue.

Cracked by: Bipin Banavalikar, Manish Achuth, raklodramA, rickde, KK, Sumanth Patlolla, badideabear, Bharath, Rogi and Amarendra Kumar

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Stanhopes, introduced to the world as ‘microscopic photo jewelry’. These tiny lenses could be attached to microphotos to view them without the need of a microscope.

#WIN

—srikanth @ May 9, 2012

Who is she and what did she do recently?

Cracked by: Bharath, KK, badideabear, Ananth, Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, rickde, Bipin Banavalikar and bhargava

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Claire Lomas recently won the london marathon wearing a bionic suit - making her the first ever person to do so.

Fly, Robin, Fly

—srikanth @ April 28, 2012

Two questions. (A) What is this? and (B) Why don’t we all have one already?!. OK, you don’t need to answer (B).

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, Bharath, badideabear, Manish Achuth, KK, rickde, Ananth and Dibyo

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