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Russian Space Agency Launches #cosmoselfie To Tag Selfies By Cosmonauts, But It's Already Used By Cosmopolitan Magazine
IBTimes - 20 Apr 2014 08:34
The Russian Space Agency Roscosmos announced on Friday that it would start using #cosmoselfie to tag selfies taken by astronauts. One problem: The popular women's lifestyle magazine Cosmopolitan already uses #cosmoselfie...
First Generation Apple TVs Unable to Connect to iTunes
Mac Rumors - 20 Apr 2014 18:10
Apple's first generation Apple TV have lost their ability to connect to iTunes and appears to be affecting users worldwide. A lengthy Apple Discussions page shows that the problem started on the 17th of April and has per...
General Mills Backtracks on Legal Policy After Angering Facebook Users
Mashable - 20 Apr 2014 16:59
General Mills inadvertently shocked social-media users everywhere this week after an update to its legal policy was interpreted as preventing customers from suing the company if they Like any of its brands on Facebook. N...
NASA moon landing engineer John C. Houbolt dies at 95
Fox News - 20 Apr 2014 06:22
John C. Houbolt, an engineer whose contributions to the U.S. space program were vital to NASA's successful moon landing in 1969, has died. He was 95.
Earth-Like 'Cousin' Kepler-186f Found 490 Light-Years Away, New Planet Is 'Best Bet' Yet For Extraterrestrial Life
IBTimes - 20 Apr 2014 03:34
A new planet that scientists are calling a close "cousin" of Earth was discovered nearly 500 light years away in the constellation Cygnus, NASA scientists announced Thursday. Called Kepler-186f, the exoplanet - a term gi...
Testing immune cells on the International Space Station
Phys.org - 20 Apr 2014 23:56
The human body is fine-tuned to Earth's gravity. A team headed by Professor Oliver Ullrich from the University of Zurich's Institute of Anatomy is now conducting an experiment on the International Space Station (ISS) to ...
How to download karaoke songs
Digital Trends - 20 Apr 2014 02:15
Karaoke has a way of bringing people together -- and pulling them apart -- but it's not always the cheapest form of entertainment. Check out our exhaustive guide on how to download karaoke songs for five methods for capt...
Mystery physics: What does the M in M-theory mean?
New Scientist - 20 Apr 2014 21:00
Some of the world's greatest physicists couldn't tell you why our leading theory of everything is labelled "M". Amanda Gefter hit the road to solve the mystery (full text available to subscribers)
Drone Shoots Epic Footage of SpaceX Rocket Launch and Controlled Landing
Mashable - 20 Apr 2014 02:00
Elon Musk's space-faring company SpaceX has released the first test footage of its Falcon 9 Reusable (F9R) taking off, and making a controlled landing at the company's rocket-development facility in Texas The epic video ...
How BentProp and undersea robots found long-lost WWII bombers
CNET - 20 Apr 2014 13:00The cutting-edge tech behind the hunt for lost WWII planes
CNET - 20 Apr 2014 13:00Apple hires rising medical star w/ experience in FDA approvals, product development
9 to 5 Mac - 20 Apr 2014 04:53Searching Underwater for MH370 is a Shot in the Dark (Op-Ed)
Live Science - 20 Apr 2014 04:44
The ongoing search for missing flight MH370 has shown how finding objects such as debris on the ocean is difficult, but finding them underwater in the deep ocean is much more challenging.
Preventative Treatment For Heartbleed On Healthcare.gov
Slashdot - 20 Apr 2014 03:59
As the San Francisco Chronicle reports, "People who have accounts on the enrollment website for President Barack Obama's signature health care law are being told to change their passwords following an administration-wide...
Employee wellness programs now one of Fitbit's fastest growing areas
Digital Trends - 20 Apr 2014 01:53
A new report highlights corporate use as one of the fastest-growing and most lucrative areas for fitness tracking companies like Fibit: are you ready to let your employer track your health? The post Employee wellness pro...
NASA's space station Robonaut finally getting legs
Phys.org - 20 Apr 2014 01:01
Robonaut, the first out-of-this-world humanoid, is finally getting its space legs. For three years, Robonaut has had to manage from the waist up. This new pair of legs means the experimental robot--now stuck on a pedesta...
Sci-fi short film imagines a world without paper
The Verge - 20 Apr 2014 00:18
What would our world be like without paper? According to the renegade scientist in "Scattered," a sci-fi short film adapted from a story by author Ken MacLeod, it'd be a place freed from the restrictions of human history...
Hands On With Facebook's Nearby Friends
Mashable - 20 Apr 2014 00:01
There's a lot that Facebook allows you to share with your friends. On Thursday, the company added "exact location" to that list Facebook's new Nearby Friends feature enables you to flip a switch to start broadcasting you...
LED Lights Are Ruining Laundry Detergent's White-Brightening Trick
Gizmodo - 20 Apr 2014 00:00
LED lighting is great. The right bulb gives the same warm incandescent glow you love from a fraction of the energy. But there's a downside: while LEDs make cities look awesome , the most common type of LED lighting dims ...
Deals: Learn to Create and Deploy Web Apps with Amazon Web Services
Mac Life - 20 Apr 2014 23:54
[This is an advertorial. Maclife gets a portion of each unit sold.] The web has evolved a lot over the past few years. Now it's not just for hosting websites--it's able to host applications that can be interacted with an...
Troy Wolverton: Fire TV needs work to reach potential
Phys.org - 20 Apr 2014 23:50
Consumers wanting to watch Internet videos on the big screen in their living room now have one more intriguing option: Amazon.com's new Fire TV digital media player.
Hashing It Out: The Art and Science of Pushing Pot To Its THC Limits
Gizmodo - 20 Apr 2014 22:20
The intoxicating effects of cannabis have skyrocketed in the last 50 years as the plant's rapidly widening acceptance has spurred a race among growers to produce ever more potent strains. But even the stickiest of the ic...