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Looking for Earth-Like Exoplanets

Oct 11th, 2008 · Discover Magazine is running a story detailing the search for planets like Earth orbiting other stars. While we've been able to locate a few "super earths" so far, none of them really compare in size or the potential for habitability with our own world. …
see also: world · planet · chemicals · transition · PDF · 2010 · telescopes

Verizon To Charge Content Providers $.03 Per SMS

Oct 11th, 2008 · It appears that Verizon is going to start double-dipping by charging both consumers AND content providers for SMS text messages. Verizon has informed content partners that it will levy a $.03 charge for messages sent to customers, effective November 1. …
see also: Partners · consumer · player · media · mobile · customers · Texting

Verizon To Charge Content Providers $.03 Per SMS

Oct 10th, 2008 · It appears that Verizon is going to start double-dipping by charging both consumers AND content providers for SMS text messages. Verizon has informed content partners that it will levy a $.03 charge for messages sent to customers, effective November 1. …
see also: Partners · consumer · player · media · mobile · customers · Texting

Homeland Security's Space-Based Spying Goes Live

Oct 8th, 2008 · While America's attention has shifted to the economic meltdown and the presidential race between corporate favorites John McCain and Barack Obama, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) National Applications …
see also: intelligent · laws · corporate · presidential · Wall Street Journal · technologies · enforcement

Future Sony MMOs Will Be On Consoles

Oct 3rd, 2008 · The MTV Multiplayer Blog interviewed John Smedley, President of Sony Online Entertainment, about the future of MMOs. He discusses some of SOE's current projects and comments that they'll be focusing on consoles for all of their upcoming MMOs. "I would …
see also: Sony · player · interview · console · PSP · franchise · Everquest

How Do I Talk To 4th Graders About IT?

Oct 3rd, 2008 · My son volunteered me to give a presentation on what I do for a living for career day at his elementary school. I need to come up with a roughly 20-minute presentation to be given to 4-5 different classrooms. I am a systems administrator, primarily Unix/Linux …
see also: servers · computer · scientists · company · Website · telephone · administration

No Space Porn (For Now)

Oct 2nd, 2008 · With the entry to sub-orbital flight, and even orbital flight, becoming ever so slightly easier, the obvious thought of space porn kicks in. Who wouldn't want to see two or more people going at it like rabbits in a weightless environment (or at least …
see also: environment · movie · money · Porn · Virgin Galactic · debates · actors

Spammers Targeting Microsoft's Revised CAPTCHA

Oct 2nd, 2008 · According to Websense, Microsoft's CAPTCHA has been busted again. CAPTCHA was surely a logical move for different service providers to fight against spammers, but it seems to be melting down. 'Realizing the potential for massive abuse from spammers with …
see also: IP · solution · service · Microsoft · computer · reliability · research

Spammers Targeting Microsoft's Revised CAPTCHA

Oct 1st, 2008 · According to Websense, Microsoft's CAPTCHA has been busted again. CAPTCHA was surely a logical move for different service providers to fight against spammers, it seems to be melting down. 'Realizing the potential for massive abuse from spammers with anti-CAPTCHA …
see also: IP · solution · service · Microsoft · computer · reliability · research

Do We Live In a Giant Cosmic Bubble?

Oct 1st, 2008 · Earth may be trapped in an abnormal bubble of space-time that is particularly void of matter. Scientists say this condition could account for the apparent acceleration of the universe's expansion, for which dark energy currently is the leading explanation. …
see also: scientists · research · energy · universities · accelerated · abnormalities · cosmic

Google Lively To Be an Online Gaming Platform

Oct 1st, 2008 · GamesIndustry.biz recently interviewed Kevin Hanna, creative director for Google Lively, about the virtual environment's beginnings and the plans for its future. Earlier this month, he announced that Lively would open to developers, and now he says the …
see also: Google · Online · download · corporate · 3D · interview · industry

Space Tourist Simonyi Prepares For Second Flight

Oct 1st, 2008 · Space Adventures announced today that Charles Simonyi, Ph.D., intends to train with the Soyuz TMA-14 crew in preparation for a spring mission in 2009 to the International Space Station. Simonyi flew his first space mission in 2007. He would be the first …
see also: preparation · NASA · Missions · tourists · 2007 · astronaut · International Space Station

Space Tourist Simonyi Prepares For Second Flight

Sep 30th, 2008 · Space Adventures announced today that Charles Simonyi, Ph.D., intends to train with the Soyuz TMA-14 crew in preparation for a spring mission in 2009 to the International Space Station. Simonyi flew his first space mission in 2007. He would be the first …
see also: preparation · NASA · Missions · tourists · 2007 · astronaut · International Space Station

Google Lively To Be an Online Gaming Platform

Sep 30th, 2008 · GamesIndustry.biz recently interviewed Kevin Hanna, creative director for Google Lively, about the virtual environment's beginnings and the plans for its future. Earlier this month, he announced that Lively would open to developers, and now he says the …
see also: Google · Online · download · corporate · 3D · interview · industry

IBM Wants Patent On Finding Areas Lacking Patents

Sep 29th, 2008 · It sounds like a goof — especially coming from a company that pledged to raise the bar on patent quality — but the USPTO last week disclosed that IBM is seeking a patent for Methodologies and Analytics Tools for Identifying White Space Opportunities …
see also: IP · IBM · company · industry · creation · USPTO · technical

On Fourth Launch Attempt, SpaceX Falcon 1 Reaches Orbit

Sep 28th, 2008 · xp65 writes with the just-announced success of Elon Musk's SpaceX's long efforts to reach orbit with a privately-developed launching craft: "T+0:08:21 Falcon 1 reached orbital velocity, 5200 m/s Nominal Second stage cut off (SECO) — Falcon 1 has …
see also: Hardware · video · engineering · history · Elon Musk · SpaceX · vehicle

Chinese Astronauts Complete First Spacewalk

Sep 27th, 2008 · At 8:40AM (GMT) this morning, Chinese astronaut Zhai Zhigang successfully spent 18 minutes in a tethered spacewalk outside the spacecraft Shenzhou 7. This is an important step in China's goal of building an orbiting space station and sending astronauts …
see also: Chinese · astronaut · Spacecraft · GMT · spacewalk · space · moonRead

China Announces Launch-Success Details — Before Launch

Sep 26th, 2008 · After faking the fireworks at the Olympics this year, one would have thought China had learned their lesson. Now, it appears they announced the success of their manned space mission before liftoff even occured, complete with dialogue."Read more of this …
see also: Olympics · Chinese · Missions · Fireworks · Liftoff · space · dialogueRead

White Spaces Test "Rigged," Says Google Co-Founder Page

Sep 26th, 2008 · As reported by the Washington Post, Google co-founder Larry Page claims that an FCC field test of white space wireless devices was 'rigged' to make the test device fail to detect wireless microphone broadcasts. A Google spokesman explained later that …
see also: Google · founder · television · local · Washington Post · microphone · Larry Page

White Spaces Test "Rigged," Says Google Co-Founder Page

Sep 25th, 2008 · As reported by the Washington Post, Google co-founder Larry Page claims that an FCC field test of white space wireless devices was 'rigged' to make the test device fail to detect wireless microphone broadcasts. A Google spokesman explained later that …
see also: Google · founder · television · local · Washington Post · microphone · Larry Page







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