By Mark Brown, Wired UK

Meet ULAS J1120+0641, the most distant quasar ever found. A team of European astronomers have used a number of telescopes, data from The European UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) and five years of searching to find it.

We see now it as it was just 770 million years after the Big...

By Chris Foresman, Ars Technica

The first Thunderbolt compatible peripherals — Promise’s Pegasus RAIDs — started shipping on Tuesday. Using the RAIDs with a Thunderbolt equipped Mac, though, requires a rather expensive $50 cable that is only available from Apple. We dug into the design of the cable to find out why Apple felt justified in charging $50 for some plastic-wrapped copper wire, and why Thunderbolt may have a hard time gaining traction outside of the higher-end storage and video device market — a fate similar to Apple’s FireWire.

Promise’s RAIDs do not come supplied with a Thunderbolt c...