Kepler space telescope temporarily disabled
Posted by: arkar
Pasadena :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 20:17:09 -0700 | technology-news
Kepler, the famed NASA space telescope, has been temporarily disabled following an error in one of its mechanical systems. The space telescope has come to earn quite a reputation for itself, as over the past couple of years it has...
Writer's graphic blog chronicles Mexico's drug violence
Source: The Dallas Morning News
Mexico City :: Mexico | updated 2013-05-17 21:35:57 -0700 | technology-news
She's a night owl, dressed in her usual 24-hour attire pajamas scrolling through her email, which makes her a daily eyewitness to the most gruesome violence of Mexico's drug wars. There are days I want to be a vampire, lie...
Face-ing the music
Source: Boston Herald
Menlo Park :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 22:11:55 -0700 | technology-news
One year after Facebook went public, the Menlo Park, Calif.-based company that created a fleeting sensation with its IPO has made strides in monetizing its social network, but has yet to reach the same heights since. From the very beginning,...
Bill Gates Becomes Richest Man as Microsoft Hits 5-Year High
Source: World News
Mexico City :: Mexico | updated 2013-05-17 21:04:00 -0700 | technology-news
Adds Elon Musk details in the 13th paragraph.) May 17 (Bloomberg) -- Bill Gates is once again the world's richest person. The 57-year-old co-founder of Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft Corp. recaptured the title from Mexican investor Carlos Slim yesterday, according to...
Inductions: BoK on the wrong side of the law
Source: DAWN
Karāchi :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-17 20:38:41 -0700 | technology-news
The provincial public sector Bank of Khyber has specified a quota for its employees' children for induction as management training officers and delegated discretionary powers to its managing director to select one MTO, it is learnt. The specification of the...
Navy dolphins discover rare old torpedo off Coronado
Source: Los Angeles Times
Zagreb :: Croatia | updated 2013-05-17 20:29:33 -0700 | technology-news
In the ocean off Coronado, a Navy team has discovered a relic worthy of display in a military museum: a torpedo of the kind deployed in the late 19th century, considered a technological marvel in its day. But don't look...
Facebook, a year after IPO
Source: Washington Post
Zurich :: Switzerland | updated 2013-05-17 20:13:08 -0700 | technology-news
Facebook's market debut last May was supposed to be the coming-of-age moment for a new generation of tech companies and a surefire bet for the small investor. Instead, doubts about whether the young company was mature enough to meet shareholders'...
Deep sea 'gold rush' moves closer
Source: BBC
Isa :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-17 18:49:15 -0700 | technology-news
It says companies could apply for licences from as soon as 2016. I don't think we own the deep ocean in the sense that we can do what we like with it End Quote Dr Jon Copley University of Southampton...
Remains of the Day: Shape up, ship out
Source: Macworld
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 17:36:42 -0700 | technology-news
Macs use Harry Potter spell to unlock secret backdoor (Ars Technica) Speaking of secret backdoors, here's a fascinating story from a recent security conference. Seems youor, well, someone with a lot of technical skillscan access the system management controller (SMC)...
Why do planets farthest from sun have highest winds? Team closes in on answer
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
Boston :: MA :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 17:29:02 -0700 | technology-news
Team closes in on answer The planets beyond Mars exhibit the highest winds speeds of any other planets in the solar system. It's a puzzle, because less energy from the sun is available there to drive higher winds. Astronomers have...
Meteoroid impact triggers bright flash on the moon
Source: Reuters
Cape Canaveral :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 17:01:26 -0700 | technology-news
ted Topics Hundreds of meteoroid impacts on the moon, detected by NASA's lunar monitoring program, are pictured in this undated NASA handout photo. Credit: Reuters/NASA/Handout CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida Fri May 17, 2013 7:49pm EDT CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - An...
Google+: One tool to bind them all
Source: CNN
Atlanta :: GA :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 16:54:00 -0700 | technology-news
How Google+ is pushing its way into all Google products Vic Gundotra, Google senior vice president of engineering, speaks Wednesday at the Google I/O developers conference. (CNN) -- For two years, Google has pushed its Google+ as more than a...
How An Accident Turned A CNet Editor Into BlackBerry Z10 Fan (BBRY)
Source: BusinessInsider
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 16:45:39 -0700 | technology-news
When CNet editor and reviewer Brian Bennett lost his "lovely HTC One test unit" while traveling, he was forced to use the other test phone he brought with him, a BlackBerry Z10. He expected to be miserable missing out on Google...
Times Site Is Attacked by Hackers
Source: International Herald Tribune
Neuilly :: France | updated 2013-05-17 16:45:19 -0700 | technology-news
According to Danielle Rhoades Ha, a company spokeswoman, the Web site became unavailable to a small number of users after a denial-of-service attack, a tactic used by hackers to slow or halt Web traffic by bombarding a host site with...
Regulators to fishermen: don't blame observers
Source: Boston Herald
Gloucester :: MA :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 16:24:40 -0700 | technology-news
The top regulators of New England's sagging fishing industry have asked fishermen not to take out their frustrations on the onboard catch observers who monitor what they pull up or throw back. The request came in an open letter to...
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