This year marks the 23rd anniversary of the Hubble Telescope taking flight in orbit around the earth. To celebrate the occasion it revisited one of my favorite monuments in the night sky; the Horse Head Nebula (IC 434).

Located within the Orion Nebula (M42), the Horsehead is a massive star forming region which is comprised of dust and gas. The Hubble first imaged the Horse Head about 20 years ago and the resulting visible light image can be seen above. The red or pinkish glow originates from hydrogen gas predominantly behind the nebula, ionized by the nearby bright star Sigma Orionis. The darkness of the Horsehead is caused mostly by thick dust, although the lower part of the Horsehead's neck casts a shadow to the left.

The new image of the great Horse Head can be seen above. It shows the region in infrared light, which is made up of longer wavelengths than visible light and can see through the dusty cloud that usually obscures the nebula's inner regions. The result is a rather amazing, and stunning looking structure, made of delicate folds of gas.

The HTC One is no doubt one of the most highly anticipated new smartphones of the year. It's all aluminum uni-body design combined with some serious new camera technology has generated massive amounts of chatter amongst Android enthusiasts.

Four days ahead of its launch with T-Mobile, the company has announced its pricing structure for the HTC One based on its new "Un-Plan" business model. The 4.7-inch 1080 x 1920 pixels screened phone will run T-Mobile customers a contract free price of $99 down and 24 equal monthly payments of $20. Those not looking to sign a commitment on a "no commitment" plan can purchase the phone outright for $579.99.

The HTC Once is already on sale at Sprint and ATT and will arrive on T-Mobile shelves on the 24th, which is next Wednesday. I am still on the fence about upgrading to an HTC One or Samsung's Galaxy S4.

In anticipation of the upcoming movie Star Trek Into Darkness, J.J. Abrams' production company, Bad Robot, has released some breathtaking HD images of the Enterprise's Bridge used in the 2009 blockbuster Star Trek.

The images (source #1) show off the beauty of the Enterprise Reboot designed by Scott Chambliss, and display a remarkable level of detail that many fans just chalked up to being CGI creations. Bad Robot has also released a Star Trek Into Darkness app that will let you scan these high resolution images to earn extra points that will help you move up within the Starfleet ranks.

Star Trek Into Darkness releases on May 17th and I for one will be first in line to see it.

Just eight years ago IBM sold off its consumer PC business to Lenovo and now the company is looking to offload part of its server business to the Chinese business as well. Both the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg are confirming the reported $2.5 billion to $4.5 billion dollar deal.

The low-end System X server division would go to Lenovo if the deal passes, and the Server X line could see a complete revitalization after several years of low performance.

News of this deal comes shortly after IBM announced less than desirable earnings for Q1 2013, which saw System X earnings drop by more than nine percent. In contrast, IBM's high-end System Z mainframe business rose by seven percent.

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt made a secret trip to meet with the infamous Julian Assange while he was under house arrest in 2011. The reason for the meeting? Schmidt was researching information for his soon to be released book The New Digital Age.

The conversation covered topics from Assange's thoughts on Bitcoins, to Assange's seemingly never ending list of "crazy female visitors", and even Schmidt's past experiences with Delta Airlines. Schmidt asks Assange about his feelings on the damage that is caused by his website's information leaks, to which Assange compares WikiLeaks to YouTube. He says that like Google, WikiLeaks cannot review every piece of information uploaded to its site.

Assange went on to suggest that Google could provide WikiLeaks with some information on requests made by the US government under the Patriot Act. Schmidt responded by telling Assange that that would be illegal, but he would have Google's lead council forward future request notifications to WikiLeaks.

The popular online tank shooter World of Tanks suffered a security breach recently that could have led to account information being stolen from subscribers. The developer, Wargaming.net, has not released any detailed information on what exactly was stolen, but is advising all users to change their account password to ensure no accounts are lost.

In a statement on the matter Wargaming.net had the following to say:

"As a part of usual security practices, we recently became aware that some personal information may have been compromised due to a security incident. We immediately launched an investigation into the incident and can assure you that no financial information was accessed. However, we believe that some password hashes and email addresses were affected by the compromise."

As an incentive, the company is giving users who change their passwords 300 in-game gold, which is enough to purchase one day of premium services, resulting in a faster tank and faster research into new tanks.

Every time someone uses Siri on their iPhone, Apple stores that voice data for future testing and debugging. The files stay on Apples servers for a period of two years. This news comes after Wired inquired about ambiguity in Siri's privacy policy, which was brought to light by the ACLU.

Apple says that each data set is assigned a random number string that represents a person. After six months the data is disassociated with the account and stored for 18 months afterwards to be used in development and testing. If a user turns Siri off on their device, all data is deleted instantly.

Google has a nasty habit of not responding to customer support emails, and has an automated system that points you to the Google help forums, which are usually not that helpful.

Apparently Germany is not very happy about this and has told Google to remedy the situation or face the consequences.

The Federation of German Consumer Organisations (VZBV) has told Google to sign an undertaking that will revamp their customer service and elicit actual human responses when contacted by users. The VZBV is citing the Germany Telemedia Act, which requires all businesses to have an email in which customers can submit questions to.

Samsung has been quite vocal about its plans to turn the Galaxy S4 into the bestselling smartphone in history. This morning we are learning that the company is expecting to sell over 10 million Galaxy S4 devices in the first month alone.

Citing supply chain sources who are intimately familiar with Samsung's projected sales reports, DigiTimes is reporting that Samsung could ship as many as 30 million Galaxy S4 phones in its first quarter of sales alone, with 10 million of them flying off the shelves in the first month.

The company has lined up launches in 50 countries and more than 300 carriers, which will no doubt boost its initial sales numbers. Unlike HTC's One and Apple's iPhone 5, the Galaxy S4 is not expected to see any delays in shipping because Samsung actually manufacturers most of the components in-house, which is a huge advantage over the competition.

KuaiYong, a Windows app that allows pirated iOS software to be installed on an iPhone or iPad without jail breaking, has just gotten a web based front-end. The new website dubbed 7659.com will let users install apps to their iPhone and iPads without having to navigate the KuaiYong app on their device.

Pirated apps are nothing new on iOS, but have always required a jail broken device, which has served as a very lightweight safeguard against many people choosing to pirate apps. KuaiYong circumvented the need to be jail broken by using a bulk enterprise license to get around those safeguards.

It is still unclear as to why Apple has not attempted to take the site or app down. Some say that it is because they simply do not know it exists, but let's be honest here - if sites like Engadget, Techmeme and TweakTown know about the KuaiYong, you can bet Apple is aware of its existence.

Some suggest that Apple is simply afraid to push the matter in China as it is doesn't want to cause any more issues with state run media.

Inhon, a Taiwanese manufacturer of notebooks, has just unveiled the Blade 13 Carbon ultrabook. While the news of another ultrabook may not sound exciting, the Blade Carbon is something to get excited about, as it claims the title of thinnest and lightest notebook in the world.

Weighing in at just 870 grams, the 10.7mm thick (thin?) Blade 13 Carbon is more than 400 grams lighter than Apple's MacBook Air, and more than 6mm thinner. Inhon ditched the aluminum unibody idea in favor of carbon fiber, which resulted in a much thinner profile and the record weight listing.

Inhon will release the Blade 13 Carbon in several different configurations including models with Intel Core i5 and i7 low-voltage chips, 1080p 13-inch display and a 128GB or 256GB SSD. RAM is said to be limited to just 4GB, though. The Blade 13 Carbon will begin shipping in June at a price point of $1350. Unfortunately those of us state side will not get the chance to pick one (as yet) up as Inhon has no US distributors that we could find.

When people think global graphics card sales, they've always had ASUS stand there, proud, being number one - well, not anymore. Palit Microsystems of Taiwan, and PC Partner of Hong Kong have overtaken the Taiwan-based company, pushing ASUS into the number there position according to "industry sources" of DigiTimes.

Palit and PC Partner both have large numbers of sub-brands, which have helped them get to that coveted number one position. Palit own quite a number of other brands around the world, a few of which might surprise you, DigiTimes reports that they own "Galaxy, Yuan, Gainward, Vvikoo, XpertVision and Daytona". PC Partner, make their graphics cards in sub-brands, and concentrates in AMD Radeon GPUs under the Sapphire brand, and NVIDIA GPUs under the Zotac brand.

The sale of Hulu has been something that has been talked about for a while now, but we might just be a step closer to it happening now. Reuters is now reporting that the online movie and TV streaming company have hired the help of financial services firm Guggenheim Partners.

Guggenheim Partners will be advising Hulu, but are also interested in making a bid in the company which could lead to a conflict of interest. To steer around this possible, and probable conflict of interest, the company have created a separate Guggenheim Digital Media unit in January that is being headed by former Yahoo CEO and News Corp executive Ross Levinsohn, who is reportedly interested in a deal with the company.

Google CEO Larry Page had a talk at their earnings call today, hinting that the company could make Motorola's next device more durable than the current smartphones we all know and love. Page talked about battery life, water damage and drops, saying that those things shouldn't be an issue for a smartphone.

Page added "Having just seen Motorola's upcoming products myself, I'm real excited about the potential there. In just under a year, they have accomplished a lot, and have impressive velocity and execution". Motorola's next phones are rumored to be running stock Android, something that excites me, a lot. We should hopefully hear about Motorola's next phone at Google I/O in June.

I've tried for a while now to throw money at my screen, but I still haven't received my Glass product from Google. In the meantime, between shedding tears and dreaming of a wearable computing world, Google CEO Larry Page has confirmed that Glass will indeed be running a modified version of Android.

The news comes from the Mountain View-based company's earnings call, where the CEO said: "obviously, Glass runs on Android, so [Android] has been pretty transportable across devices, and I think that will continue". Google's mobile OS is on a multitude of devices, from smartphones to tablets, laptops to cameras and now their wearable computing device. This news should be music to developers' ears, as they can easily port their apps over to Glass' headset.

If you thought Samsung didn't have enough smartphones on the market, prepare for some new ones. Dutch site TechTastic are reporting that they've found a couple of new models on the South Korean company's website, claiming to be the Galaxy S3 mini refresh - the GT-I9190.

The Galaxy S3 mini goes by the GT-I8190 moniker, so we should expect this one to be the Galaxy S4 mini. There will be two devices, the GT-I9190 and the I9195, with the latter being the S4 mini duos. We should expect the Galaxy S4 mini to feature a 4.3-inch 960x540 display, quad-core processor, and an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera. The S3 mini only featured a 800x480 display, dual-core processor and 5-megapixel camera.

We should expect the mini duos to feature a less powerful processor, most likely a dual-core chip, and would be aimed at markets where dual-SIM functionality is used.

NASA has used their Kepler telescope to discover three "super-Earth-size" exoplanets that are close enough to their star to possibly have water on them. Two of the planets, Kepler-62e and Kepler-62f, orbit a K2 dwarf estimated to be around 7 billion years old.

This star measures in at around two-thirds the size of our sun, and is orbited by a total of five planets, three of which are too close to be habitable for life to form. Kepler-69c, the biggest of the three new planets discovered, is estimated to be around 70% larger than Earth, and takes 242 days to circle its star. This isn't the biggest news NASA has had, but it is interesting nonetheless.

While Apple's share price continues to tumble - I'm sure there's a better word for that... nosedive? - Google Q1 2013 earnings are in, and what a report they have to share with the world. A break down of the numbers is below:

• $13.97 billion in revenue for the quarter, up 31-percent year-over-year
• $3.48 billion in operating income, up slightly y-o-y but down as a percentage of revenue
• Google-owned sites represented $8.64 billion of those revenues
• Google Network (partner sites) represented $3.26 billion of revenue
• Motorola posted $1.02 billion in revenues, 7-percent of Google's total
• Motorola ended with an operating loss of $271 million for Q1

The total revenue for the quarter being $13.97 billion, sees a huge 31% increase year-over-year. Motorola are still posting a loss, but I think we'll see the last of those in the coming months, and by this time next year we should see Motorola hopefully making all of Google's hardware.

If you were after some totally free VoiP calls between your friends on Facebook, then you may want to pay attention to Facebook Messenger. The latest app update include the ability of free VoiP-based calls between your Facebook friends.

In the beginning of last month, Canadian users were greeted with the VoiP call goodness, but now it has extended outside of Canadaland, and into the US and other countries. If you want to see if you have this feature, all you have to do is tap into a current chat, tap the 'i' button in the top right corner and if you're in one of the countries the new feature has rolled out into, you'll see a "Free Call" button at the bottom.

I've just tested it on my Nexus 4 here in Australia, and can confirm it's working for Australians.

While America still reels over the Boston Marathon bombings and the fertilizer plant explosion near Waco in Texas, the House of Representatives have passed the cybersecurity bill CISPA (Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act).

CISPA was passed by a 288-127 vote, receiving support from 92 democrats. From here, it will move to the Senate, then to President Obama's desk. CISPA, if you're not already familiar, will allow private businesses to share customers' personal information with any government entity, giving the government, and entities like the NSA, some serious power.

The way laws like this get passed, is by people who throw their hands in the air claiming that not letting something like CISPA pass, is because there are threats to "US economic security". Because, you know, there aren't any other issues with the US' economy right now. Mike Rogers, co-author of CISPA and the intelligence committee chairman, argued that cyberattacks and espionage, mostly from China, where an umber of high profile attacks have originated from, are a number one threat to US economic security.

On the House floor, Rogers said:

We have a constitutional obligation to defend this nation. This is the answer to empower cyber information sharing to protect this nation, to allow those companies to protect themselves and move on to economic prosperity. If you want to take a shot across China's bow, this is the answer.