Monday, May 27, 2013
Europe investigates Apple's iPhone tactics: Report
[ Mon, 27 May 2013 15:46:50 GMT ]
The European Commission is investigating whether Apple is using anti-competitive iPhone sales tactics and technical restrictions to squeeze out rival smartphone makers from the European market, according to documents seen by the Financial Times.According to a questionnaire sent last week to several European mobile network operators, the Commission is focusing on distribution terms that might favou...
[ Mon, 27 May 2013 15:46:50 GMT ]
The European Commission is investigating whether Apple is using anti-competitive iPhone sales tactics and technical restrictions to squeeze out rival smartphone makers from the European market, according to documents seen by the Financial Times.According to a questionnaire sent last week to several European mobile network operators, the Commission is focusing on distribution terms that might favou...
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Google wants more women in tech
[ Mon, 27 May 2013 11:37:47 EDT ]
Google is a company focused on problem solving. It has untold amounts of computing power at its disposal working away to try and solve big problems. One issue the company is currently addressing requires a more analog approach: upping the number of female computer engineers.
[ Mon, 27 May 2013 11:37:47 EDT ]
Google is a company focused on problem solving. It has untold amounts of computing power at its disposal working away to try and solve big problems. One issue the company is currently addressing requires a more analog approach: upping the number of female computer engineers.
Google's quest to get more women in tech
[ Mon, 27 May 2013 11:02:34 EDT ]
Google is a company focused on problem solving. It has untold amounts of computing power at its disposal working away to try and solve big problems. One issue the company is currently addressing requires a more analog approach: upping the number of female computer engineers.
[ Mon, 27 May 2013 11:02:34 EDT ]
Google is a company focused on problem solving. It has untold amounts of computing power at its disposal working away to try and solve big problems. One issue the company is currently addressing requires a more analog approach: upping the number of female computer engineers.
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Xbox? More like Xbody: Future game consoles will get under your skin
[ Sat, 25 May 2013 14:37:42 GMT ]
Imagine playing through a level of the popular zombie shooter "Left 4 Dead" on a system that tracks your heart rate, eye movements, even how clammy your skin is getting, all to measure just how scared you are.For 250 lucky — or extremely unlucky — test subjects, fear-based gaming was a reality, at least in an experimental program led by the game studio Valve. If the game could sense that a player ...
[ Sat, 25 May 2013 14:37:42 GMT ]
Imagine playing through a level of the popular zombie shooter "Left 4 Dead" on a system that tracks your heart rate, eye movements, even how clammy your skin is getting, all to measure just how scared you are.For 250 lucky — or extremely unlucky — test subjects, fear-based gaming was a reality, at least in an experimental program led by the game studio Valve. If the game could sense that a player ...
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Students' robots to race in mock Mars rover challenge
[ Sat, 25 May 2013 21:13:49 GMT ]
SALT LAKE CITY — What does it take to build and command a vehicle capable of exploring Mars? Ninety students from around the world are about to find out. Next week, in a remote desert in southern Utah, 10 teams from the United States, Canada, India and Poland will compete in the annual University Rover Challenge. The competition is hosted by the Mars Society, a non-profit research organizati...
[ Sat, 25 May 2013 21:13:49 GMT ]
SALT LAKE CITY — What does it take to build and command a vehicle capable of exploring Mars? Ninety students from around the world are about to find out. Next week, in a remote desert in southern Utah, 10 teams from the United States, Canada, India and Poland will compete in the annual University Rover Challenge. The competition is hosted by the Mars Society, a non-profit research organizati...
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Ancient cave art unearthed in Mexico
[ Sun, 26 May 2013 15:55:05 GMT ]
By Megan Gannon, LiveScience In the mountains of northeastern Mexico, archaeologists have unearthed thousands of ancient paintings on the walls of caves and ravines from a time before Spanish rule.The rock art offers rare evidence from native cultures living in the area around the Sierra de San Carlos, a mountain range in Mexico's state of Tamaulipas, researchers say.Almost 5,000 of these pain...
[ Sun, 26 May 2013 15:55:05 GMT ]
By Megan Gannon, LiveScience In the mountains of northeastern Mexico, archaeologists have unearthed thousands of ancient paintings on the walls of caves and ravines from a time before Spanish rule.The rock art offers rare evidence from native cultures living in the area around the Sierra de San Carlos, a mountain range in Mexico's state of Tamaulipas, researchers say.Almost 5,000 of these pain...
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Alien planets could shed light on Earth's climate future
[ Sun, 26 May 2013 15:55:06 GMT ]
By Leslie Mullen, Astrobiology Magazine, SPACE.comA Comparative Climatology Symposium held at NASA Headquarters on May 7 focused on new approaches to climate research by highlighting the similarities and contrasts between the environments of the rocky worlds Venus, Earth, Mars and Saturn’s smoggy moon Titan. The symposium also included discussions about exoplanets, the sun and past, present and...
[ Sun, 26 May 2013 15:55:06 GMT ]
By Leslie Mullen, Astrobiology Magazine, SPACE.comA Comparative Climatology Symposium held at NASA Headquarters on May 7 focused on new approaches to climate research by highlighting the similarities and contrasts between the environments of the rocky worlds Venus, Earth, Mars and Saturn’s smoggy moon Titan. The symposium also included discussions about exoplanets, the sun and past, present and...
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Spotted: First evidence of leopard eating a chimp
[ Sun, 26 May 2013 15:55:07 GMT ]
By Douglas Main, LiveScienceOnly rarely have people seen what happens when chimpanzees and leopards come into close quarters in the wilds of Africa. On these occasions, chimpanzees have made loud, fearful calls, or played the aggressor: In one case, chimps even surrounded a leopard den and killed a cub.But the big-brained primates don't always win: For the first time, scientists have found evid...
[ Sun, 26 May 2013 15:55:07 GMT ]
By Douglas Main, LiveScienceOnly rarely have people seen what happens when chimpanzees and leopards come into close quarters in the wilds of Africa. On these occasions, chimpanzees have made loud, fearful calls, or played the aggressor: In one case, chimps even surrounded a leopard den and killed a cub.But the big-brained primates don't always win: For the first time, scientists have found evid...
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Grant Morrison: Google Glass is 'half-fish, half-man' (Q&A)
[ Sun, 26 May 2013 11:00:00 GMT ]
The influential author, who has both created cult classic comics and written popular heroes like Batman and the X-Men, tells CNET's Seth Rosenblatt that as technology makes us superhuman, personal privacy will die -- and that's a good thing. [Read more]
[ Sun, 26 May 2013 11:00:00 GMT ]
The influential author, who has both created cult classic comics and written popular heroes like Batman and the X-Men, tells CNET's Seth Rosenblatt that as technology makes us superhuman, personal privacy will die -- and that's a good thing. [Read more]
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Saturday, May 25, 2013
'Facebook Phone' launch canceled in U.K. as Home gets facelift
[ Fri, 24 May 2013 23:47:17 GMT ]
Plans to launch the HTC First, aka the "Facebook phone," in the U.K. have been indefinitely delayed and pre-orders refunded, according Facebook and the carrier that was to carry the device exclusively. In the United States, after AT&T dropped the device's price, that seemed like confirmation that sales have been nowhere near what was hoped.The HTC First was announced in April; with bold colors...
[ Fri, 24 May 2013 23:47:17 GMT ]
Plans to launch the HTC First, aka the "Facebook phone," in the U.K. have been indefinitely delayed and pre-orders refunded, according Facebook and the carrier that was to carry the device exclusively. In the United States, after AT&T dropped the device's price, that seemed like confirmation that sales have been nowhere near what was hoped.The HTC First was announced in April; with bold colors...
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Mars hit by space rocks 200 times a year
[ Sat, 25 May 2013 00:20:06 GMT ]
By SPACE.com staffSmall space rocks are carving fresh craters into the Martian surface more often than previously thought, researchers say. A new study finds that there are more than 200 asteroid impacts on the Red Planet every year.These asteroids and comet fragments are usually no bigger than 3 to 6 feet (1 to 2 meters) across — about 10 times smaller than the meteor that exploded over Chely...
[ Sat, 25 May 2013 00:20:06 GMT ]
By SPACE.com staffSmall space rocks are carving fresh craters into the Martian surface more often than previously thought, researchers say. A new study finds that there are more than 200 asteroid impacts on the Red Planet every year.These asteroids and comet fragments are usually no bigger than 3 to 6 feet (1 to 2 meters) across — about 10 times smaller than the meteor that exploded over Chely...
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Communications satellite launched into space
[ Sat, 25 May 2013 01:14:40 GMT ]
The Associated PressCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.— A new military communications satellite has been launched into space.An unmanned Delta IV rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Friday evening. The satellite was the fifth Wideband Global satcom spacecraft to be launched.The satellite, which is being sent into an orbit that follows the earth's rotation 22,000 miles above the equator, w...
[ Sat, 25 May 2013 01:14:40 GMT ]
The Associated PressCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.— A new military communications satellite has been launched into space.An unmanned Delta IV rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Friday evening. The satellite was the fifth Wideband Global satcom spacecraft to be launched.The satellite, which is being sent into an orbit that follows the earth's rotation 22,000 miles above the equator, w...
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Xbox? More like Xbody: Future game consoles will get under your skin
[ Sat, 25 May 2013 14:37:42 GMT ]
Imagine playing through a level of the popular zombie shooter "Left 4 Dead" on a system that tracks your heart rate, eye movements, even how clammy your skin is getting, all to measure just how scared you are.For 250 lucky — or extremely unlucky — test subjects, fear-based gaming was a reality, at least in an experimental program led by the game studio Valve. If the game could sense that a player ...
[ Sat, 25 May 2013 14:37:42 GMT ]
Imagine playing through a level of the popular zombie shooter "Left 4 Dead" on a system that tracks your heart rate, eye movements, even how clammy your skin is getting, all to measure just how scared you are.For 250 lucky — or extremely unlucky — test subjects, fear-based gaming was a reality, at least in an experimental program led by the game studio Valve. If the game could sense that a player ...
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'Star Trek II' producer talks Ceti Eel, J.J. Abrams, and more (Q&A)
[ Sat, 25 May 2013 14:00:00 GMT ]
Robert Sallin, producer of "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," shares his experience working on the film, looks at the future of "Trek," and dishes on whether that was Ricardo Montalban's real chest. [Read more]
[ Sat, 25 May 2013 14:00:00 GMT ]
Robert Sallin, producer of "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," shares his experience working on the film, looks at the future of "Trek," and dishes on whether that was Ricardo Montalban's real chest. [Read more]
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Friday, May 24, 2013
After months in space, gravity can be a real drag for returning astronauts
[ Fri, 24 May 2013 01:31:59 GMT ]
Three astronauts who recently spent months together aboard the International Space Station reunited on Earth on Thursday during a Google+ Hangout to talk about their experiences aboard the orbiting lab and the challenge of readapting to life with gravity."It's great to all be back together," said NASA astronaut Kevin Ford from the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Ford, who returned to Earth on Mar...
[ Fri, 24 May 2013 01:31:59 GMT ]
Three astronauts who recently spent months together aboard the International Space Station reunited on Earth on Thursday during a Google+ Hangout to talk about their experiences aboard the orbiting lab and the challenge of readapting to life with gravity."It's great to all be back together," said NASA astronaut Kevin Ford from the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Ford, who returned to Earth on Mar...
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