georgia

Flying to This Sci Fi Mountain Airport Almost Makes the Cold Worth It

The thought of going someplace even colder than where I am now sounds awful, until I see the new wing of Mestia, Georgia’s airport. The frigid terrain doesn’t look too inviting, but the terminal’s space station design sure does. The new structure was built with the hopes of bringing tourists to Mestia—which might be a…

Tech News Sam Biddle Feb 1

Georgia Prisoners Use Smuggled Cell Phones to Organize Statewide Protest

The worry over allowing prison inmates the use of cell phones is usually that they’ll call in murder jobs on the outside or fashion an old StarTAC into a shank. But prisons across Georgia employed contraband phones for civil disobedience. While perhaps not as thrilling as your typical prison revolt, the inmates should be applauded…

Tech News Sam Biddle Dec 13

Georgia’s the perfect place for The Walking Dead’s zombie rampage

We’ve all been thrilled by the glimpses of The Walking Dead’s bleak, intense vistas. But I’ve been more thrilled than most — because it’s about time my home state of Georgia had a zombie outbreak. Confession: I’ve never read The Walking Dead. But one thing I do know is that my home state of Georgia…

io9 Kelly Faircloth Oct 7

The ruins of a Black Sea resort town

Russian photographer Slesarev Oleg Victorovitch took these photos of Gagra, a once-thriving resort town on the coast of Black Sea. Gagra was a palatial tourist destination until 1992, when the area was at the forefront of the War in Abkhazia. Gagra, which was a resort city in both Czarist and Soviet times, became a ruined…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jul 18

Satellite Images Reveal Exact Nature of Destruction in Georgia

Click to viewOne of the unintended consequences of having constant satellite surveillance over every centimeter of the globe is that it’s easy to see how governments screw up. Here is a UNOSAT image from a report on the damage done to villages in Georgia after the bombings. All the destruction tracked here is in residential…

io9 Annalee Newitz Sep 10

Open-Source Posse Bands Together to Investigate Mysterious Russian Hacker Squads

Remember when news came out that Russia had begun their military campaign in South Ossetia with a far-reaching hack attack on Georgia’s government computer systems? Well, security experts are still having a hard time figuring out exactly what happened, who was responsible, and whether it could happen again. Now, Danger Room is reporting on a…

Privacy & Security John Mahoney Sep 9

Russian Hacker Mob Takes Over Georgian Web During Invasion

Coinciding with the conflict in South Ossetia, the Georgian government is claiming they have lost control of many, if not all, of their governmental web sites and are incapable of using them to update its citizens or the international community. The blog RBNexploit is claiming to be an unofficial spokesman for the Georgian web, and…

Privacy & Security John Mahoney Aug 11

Georgian UAV Films its Own Demise in Russian MiG Attack

Apparently the latest twist in an ongoing tussle over separatist Abkhazia, this video shows an "unarmed, umanned aerial vehicle" belonging to the Georgian Interior Ministry performing "basic reconnaissance over Georgian territory," according to the Georgians. Whether or not you believe the details in that statement, it’s pretty hard to argue with what happens at around…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Apr 22

Flying to This Sci Fi Mountain Airport Almost Makes the Cold Worth It

Georgia Prisoners Use Smuggled Cell Phones to Organize Statewide Protest

Georgia’s the perfect place for The Walking Dead’s zombie rampage

The ruins of a Black Sea resort town

Satellite Images Reveal Exact Nature of Destruction in Georgia

Open-Source Posse Bands Together to Investigate Mysterious Russian Hacker Squads

Russian Hacker Mob Takes Over Georgian Web During Invasion

Georgian UAV Films its Own Demise in Russian MiG Attack

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