NASA mission to lasso an asteroid is progressing
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Cleveland :: OH :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 02:51:22 -0700 | technology-news
President Barack Obama had earmarked a sum of $100-million for NASA to lasso a small asteroid and bring it closer to Earth. It may be recalled that in President Obama's 2014 budget proposal, the space agency called for a spending...
Mr. President: Save us from Xbox One
Source: Chicago Tribune
Chicago :: IL :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 23:54:37 -0700 | technology-news
John Kass Though he's vowed to cut back on those drone attacks of his, President Barack Obama needs to launch the mother of drone attacks: Against Xbox One...Americans are fools for shiny technology, and the Xbox One from Microsoft is...
Pier plan is given grant boost
Source: BBC
Colwyn Bay :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-24 01:10:59 -0700 | technology-news
Colwyn Bay Pier lottery grant boosts restoration plans Colwyn Bay pier opened in 1900 but closed in 2008 Plans to restore a Grade II listed pier in north Wales have been boosted with a heritage lottery grant of nearly £600,000....
Google Considers Outbidding Facebook To Buy Waze For ~$1 Billion – Report
Source: BusinessInsider
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 02:53:47 -0700 | technology-news
Waze is a mapping app for smartphones that's infused with cool social features. For example, users can tap an icon to alert other users that they saw a highway patrol, looking for speeders. There have already been several reports that...
Can watches show more than the time?
Source: BBC
London :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-23 16:22:07 -0700 | technology-news
Big companies have been trying hard to make the long-awaited smartwatch "revolution" happen, so tick tock, what's taking so long?...While the industry is growing quickly, nearly all still need a smartphone's Bluetooth connection to tell you much more than just...
Samsung sells more than 10 mn Galaxy S4...
Source: Arab News
Seoul :: South Korea | updated 2013-05-23 16:17:29 -0700 | technology-news
South Korea's Samsung Electronics said its latest flagship Galaxy S4 had become its fastest selling smartphone to date, topping 10 million units globally less than a month after its debut. A company statement said the S4 had already passed the...
Cars, drivers in water
Source: CNN
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 22:55:30 -0700 | technology-news
Skagit County, which lies between Seattle and Vancouver, Canada, lies on the Pacific coast and includes many islands. Of its 223 bridges, the Federal Highway Administration termed 11 "structurally deficient," meaning that they need repairs. Fifty-five were listed as "functionally...
Travelers get help for Memorial Day
Source: Boston Herald
Bourne :: MA :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 21:47:16 -0700 | technology-news
Motorists stuck in traffic as they head off for Memorial Day weekend getaways will see something new on many of the state's most congested highways today: digital message boards telling them how many more miles and minutes to major points....
Racing the Clock and a Storm: A Way of Life in Tornado Alley
Source: The New York Times
Newcastle :: OK :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 21:40:57 -0700 | technology-news
Eric Thayer for The New York Times Shelly Codner, 50, at what is left of her home in Newcastle. Early Monday afternoon at the Shear Perfection hair salon, a stylist named Lisa Lentz decided to outrace it. Her one o'clock,...
A vacation to the moon: Worth the splurge?
Source: Christian Science Monitor
Boston :: MA :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 21:37:11 -0700 | technology-news
Worth the splurge? NASA isn't planning a return trip to the moon, but private companies are speculating on the Moon's tourism and colonization possibilities. How much would you pay for a trip? By Mike Wall , SPACE.com / May 23,...
Heinrich Rohrer dies at 79; a father of nanotechnology
Source: Los Angeles Times
Zurich :: Switzerland | updated 2013-05-23 21:32:20 -0700 | technology-news
The electron microscope revolutionized biology in the 1930s by providing magnifications thousands of times higher than that of light microscopes, allowing scientists to discern the inner workings of cells for the first time. But it was not nearly as helpful...
Saudi students reap honors in US science fair
Source: Arab News
Phoenix :: AZ :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 21:09:52 -0700 | technology-news
The Saudi team ranked third globally behind the Canadian and American teams, attaining the same ranking as their Chinese counterparts. The Saudi team comprised students from private and public schools in Jeddah, Riyadh and Dammam...This year, approximately 1,600 finalists from...
Holiday on Monday: Memorial Day
Source: The New York Times
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 02:52:29 -0700 | technology-news
Express Mail only; self-service kiosks are available at the main post office, on Eighth Avenue at 32nd Street, but there is no regular postal service...New York City subways and buses will operate on a Sunday schedule...Long Island Rail Road trains...
Last century: Western nations lost an average 14 IQ points
Source: United Press International
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 20:03:44 -0700 | technology-news
Since 1889 to 2004, IQ declined 14.1 points among those from Western nations, researchers in Europe say...Woodleya of Vrije Universiteit in Brussels, Jan te Nijenhuisc of the University of Amsterdam and Raegan Murphy of the University College Cork in Ireland...
Google faces new FTC probe over display ads
Source: Washington Post
Mountain View :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 19:33:28 -0700 | technology-news
It remains unclear if the FTC has concluded that Google violated any law, and some preliminary inquiries end with no action against companies. But this newest phase of federal scrutiny for Google underscores how regulators worldwide are perhaps the most...
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