Wednesday 10 June 2015

Hackers



Last week, it was revealed that Chinese hackers launched a massive cyber attack on the U.S. government, affecting 4 million current and former federal employees. The blackmail potential of such information, and the harm to U.S. national security.A senior Chinese government official even stated recently that the country is assembling an “online army,”

Tuesday 9 June 2015

New species of dinosaur nicknamed 'Hellboy' found in Canada



A newly discovered dinosaur species has been called "Hellboy" because of its resemblance to the demonic comic book character of the same name.
The fossil was dug out of limestone along a Canadian river bank where it had been for 68 million years.
It had an exotic set of horns on its face, including stubby ones above the eyes, and spines along the edge of the bony frill at the back its skull.
Paleontologists described it as one of the most unique horned dinosaurs ever found.

The dinosaur has been given the official name Regaliceratops peterhewsi, which means "Royal horned face" followed by the name of Peter Hews, the geologist who discovered it.
The beast was a relative of Triceratops and lived off plants in the Cretaceous Period.
It was similar in size to the largest modern day rhino - about 16ft long, 5ft tall, and weighing 1.5 tons.
Paleontologists said its skull had been remarkably well preserved, and the horns were probably used for mating displays rather than defense.

Leauge Of Legends







What Is Leauge Of Legends?

League of Legends is a fast-paced competitive online game that blends the speed and intensity of an RTS with RPG elements. Two teams of powerful champions each with a unique design and playstyle battle head-to-head across multiple battlefields and game modes. With an expanding roster of champions, frequent updates and a thriving tournament scene, League of Legends offers endless replay ability for players of every skill level

It is also a MOBA (Massive Online Battle Arena)

Gameplay

Players are formed into two even teams mainly made up of three or five members. Each team starts at opposing sides of a map near what is called a Nexus. To win a match a team must destroy the opposing teams Nexus. to do so each team must work through a series of towers called '' Turrets'' which are placed along a path to each base. Along the way each player gains power by completing game objectives earning them experience points and gold that are used to increase the players level and to purchase powerful items potentially giving players an advantage over their opponents. An example of these objectives include killing the opposing teams turrets, players, and minions

Minecraft





Minecraft is a sandbox game where you can dig/mine and build/craft different kinds of blocks within a large word made up of different terrains and habitats to explore.

In Minecraft the sun can rise and set as you play. There is rain and occasionally lightning storms, and animals that you can tame, farm or use for food. Depending on which gamemode you're playing in you might also need to fight for survival against hunger, danger and bad guys (mobs).

There are hostile and non-hostile mobs the hostile mobs are called Blaze, Cave spider, Spider, Creeper, Enderdragon, Enderman, Ghast, Magma Cube, Silverfish, Skeletons, Slimes, Spider Jockey, Witch, Wither, Wither Skeleton, Wolf, Zombie, Zombie Pigmans, and Guardians.
The non-hostile mobs are called Bats, Chickens, Cow, Horses, Iron Golems, Mooshrooms, Ocelots, Pigs, Rabbits, Sheeps, Snow Golems, Squids, and Villagers.

Creatures/Mobs of Minecraft
There are 4 different gamemodes that you can choose from Survival, Creative, Adventure, and Spectator Mode. In survival you mine and build to survive. Also in survival there are 4 difficulties Peaceful, Easy, Normal, and Hard. In peaceful you cannot lose hunger and regain your hp (health points) back almost instantly and there are no hostile mobs. In easy, normal, and hard you can lose your hunger and there are hostile mobs. In creative you can get a infinite amount of any blocks or items and fly. In Adventure you cannot break any blocks except for some blocks. It is usually used in custom made maps. Finally in Spectator Mode you can change your point of view by seeing through a mob or another players view. 

Minecraft is unlike any other video games becauseplaying the game' can mean something different to each player. The basic movement and actions are the same for everyone but depending on which platform the game is played on (computer, iPad, iPhone, Xbox or Playstation). Players walk around, jump, dig and punch things with their hand as they play building, mining, or farming for resources and food, and crafting these into other useful items like tools and weapons so they can do some more building, mining or farming.




Photoshop




Photoshop is a program where you can manipulate, crop, re-size, and correct on digital photos. Photoshop is usually used by photographers and graphic designers. Also Photoshop is used in jobs like architecture, astronomy, animation, forensics, and web design.
                           
This is  a picture of Photoshop being used 


History

 Photoshop was originally created by two brothers, Thomas and John Knoll. In 1987, Thomas began writing a program to display images on a monochrome display. It was originally called display and caught the attention of his brother who recommended turning it into a full-fledged image editing program. Together they developed ImagePro, which was eventually bought by Adobe to create what we now know as Photoshop.

         
Photoshop is usually used in.

  • magazines
  • advertisements
  • photographs
  • online