A new device from Google makes it easy to stream video from several popular services to a high-definition TV. Chromecast is tiny enough to dangle from a keychain when not in use, but it packs a big punch for a low price. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Phys.org
NASA has completed the first step toward a mission to find and capture a near-Earth asteroid, redirect it to a stable lunar orbit and send humans to study it. …read more
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CBS says net income rose 11 percent in the latest quarter, beating the expectations of analysts even as a dispute with one of its key TV distributors continues. …read more
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A Massachusetts man is taking his car-bicycle blend “Organic Transit Vehicle”—also known as an ELF bike—on a 1,200-mile trip from North Carolina to Massachusetts this summer, turning heads as the unusual-looking green vehicle zips through city streets. …read more
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Star Trek enthusiasts of all kinds arrived in Houston on Wednesday for the momentous unveiling of the shuttlecraft that crash-landed on a hostile planet in the 1967 “Star Trek” episode called “The Galileo Seven.” …read more
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Dell’s board rejected CEO Michael Dell’s attempt to change the voting rules for his bid to buy the slumping personal computer maker, a decision that is likely to doom the deal. …read more
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A sun-watching spacecraft spotted our closest star opening its arms to the cosmos. Two strands of plasma from an eruption in the sun’s atmosphere were captured in observations with NASA’s STEREO A satellite. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Space.com
By Bruce Dorminey, Contributor
Visions of languorous Jules Verne-like journeys to inner earth have long been relegated to science fiction fantasy. …read more
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Congrats on your sexy new Android-powered device!
Whether you’re an iOS veteran testing the Android waters with a Nexus 7 tablet or a non-techie that just ended up with a Samsung smartphone because that’s what the Verizon store recommended, you’ve now joined the ranks of hundreds of millions of other Android users.
You’ve probably already downloaded apps for Facebook and Twitter, something for music and photos, maybe a chat app… but let’s be honest. You’re going to spend a lot of time playing games on this thing.
This is where IGN comes in. With more than 100,000 Android games on the market, there’s undoubtedly a few for you, whether you just want to kill some time with a simple word game or own every console and have always thought all mobile games were just too casual.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Tech
Portugal’s navy is honoring Hawaii surfer Garrett McNamara for what it took to ride the gnarliest wave ever. …read more
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After 2 1/2 months in Space, astronauts’ calluses start peeling off. NASA astronauts Mike Massimino and Don Pettit explain why and how in this episode of the ISS Science Garage. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Space.com
Yahoo on Wednesday said it bought e-commerce platform start-up Lexity, racking up its 20th acquisition since Marissa Mayer became chief last year. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Phys.org
Twitter revealed on Wednesday that government demands for information about users rose in the first half of this year, with US authorities accounting for more than three-quarters of the requests. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Phys.org
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Bringing the dead back to life may soon be a medical reality, with claims people may be able to be resuscitated up to 24 hours after their death.
Critical care physician Sam Parnia makes the claim in his book Erasing Death, saying resuscitation research is on the cusp of a major breakthrough within the next 20 years.
“With today’s medicine, we can bring people back to life up to one, maybe two hours, sometimes even longer, after their heart stopped beating and they have thus died by circulatory failure. In the future, we will likely get better at reversing death,” he told Germany’s Spiegel magazine. “It is possible that in 20 years, we may be able to restore people to life 12 hours or maybe even 24 hours after they have died. You could call that resurrection, if you will. But I still call it resuscitation science.”
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The head of the U.S. National Security Agency defended the government’s much-criticized surveillance program against hecklers among a crowd of computer systems analysts Wednesday, but also had a challenge for them: If you don’t like it, lend your talent to build a better one. …read more
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Tropical Depression Flossie fizzled fast on July 30 in the Central Pacific Ocean. Satellite imagery on July 31 showed remnant clouds northwest of the Hawaiian Island chain. …read more
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Traveling to remote locations sometimes involves navigating through stop-and-go traffic, traversing long stretches of highway and maneuvering sharp turns and steep hills. The same can be said for guiding spacecraft to far-flung destinations in space. It isn’t always a straight shot. …read more
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No sooner had Tropical Storm Flossie dissipated then another tropical cyclone called Tropical Depression 7E formed yesterday, July 30, in the eastern Pacific Ocean. NASA’s TRMM satellite saw “hot towers” in the storm’s center early on July 31, that indicated it would likely strengthen, and it became Tropical Storm Gil hours later. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Phys.org
in the patterns that natural gas makes as it swirls through a transcontinental pipeline or in the drag that occurs as a plane soars through the sky. Reducing such turbulence on say, an airplane wing, would cut down on the amount of power the plane has to put out just to get through the air, thereby saving fuel. But in order to reduce turbulence—a very complicated phenomenon—you need to understand it, a task that has proven to be quite a challenge. …read more
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Principal Investigator George Ricker likes to call it the “Goldilocks orbit”—it’s not too close to Earth and her Moon, and it’s not too far. In fact, it’s just right. …read more
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