t’s for real: Planetary Resources, the world’s newest and most audacious space company, is set to start prospecting near-Earth asteroids by the end of 2013. The asteroid-mining startup, backed by billionaires such as Google’s Larry Page, Eric Schmidt and famed director James Cameron, held its launch event Tuesday at the Museum of Flight in Seattle. We knew plenty of ... Read More »
Facebook disclosed on Monday that it has 901 million users, making it likely that it will pass the 1 billion mark well before the end of the year. The company, which dropped the stat in its amended S-1 filing, also notes that its network receives 3.2 billion comments per day and 300 million new photos daily. The site also claims ... Read More »
SAN DIEGO — In the western San Bernardino Mountains, near the highway that links Los Angeles and Las Vegas, scientists recently discovered a geological mystery: colossal rocks perched in precarious poses right next door to the San Andreas Fault. It’s not the rocks’ balancing act that is perplexing, said Lisa Grant Ludwig, a scientist who presented this puzzle to colleagues ... Read More »
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CHANTILLY, Va. — The space shuttle Discovery will be hoisted off its ferry plane today (April 18) in a complicated ballet of cranes. The orbiter is currently perched atop a modified Boeing 747 jet that carried it from Florida to Virginia yesterday. The two aircraft flew from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral to the Dulles International Airport early ... Read More »
Agency BBDO Germany was tasked with branding the Smart Fortwo electric drive as a fun car, not just an eco-friendly car. To do so, it arranged a test drive event at the IAA motor show in Frankfurt where two of the vehicles were used as controllers in a version of the game Pong, called “eBall.” Laser measurement technology was used ... Read More »
NASA mounted space shuttle Discovery on a jumbo jet Sunday, in preparation for the retired orbiter’s delivery to the Smithsonian. The paired air- and spacecraft are expected to depart Florida for Washington, D.C., on Tuesday morning, weather permitting. Discovery’s mating to the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), NASA’s modified Boeing 747 jetliner, came a day later than the space agency ... Read More »
Ever wonder what those planets orbiting far away stars are like? Well, now there’s an app for that. The free Kepler Explorer app for iPhone and iPad allows users to explore some 2,000 planetary systems discovered by NASA’s Kepler Mission. The Kepler Mission scans the Milky Way galaxy in search of Earth-size planets in the habitable zones of the stars ... Read More »
Billed as the “evolution of currency,” the Royal Canadian Mint unveiled MintChip, a digital currency that allows users to load monetary value onto a secure chip and transfer it to a digital device. “Recently, the Mint has dedicated part of its research and development funds to improving the efficiency of currency,” said the Mint. “This research has led to the ... Read More »
A local Vancouver British Columbia business: Mystified By Social Media is giving away a free corporate website worth $750. Why? To generate interest in their business. Mystified By Social Media is a growing web design company in Delta BC focused on bringing the best customer relations and highest of quality for the most affordable price. To generate more interest in ... Read More »
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