Globe and Mail Curiosity closes in on Mars for high-stakes descent CNET The $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory rover is closing in on the red planet for a high-stakes plunge to the surface using an untried “sky crane” technique to ensure a pinpoint landing on the floor of Gale Crater.
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Sky News Australia NASA Taps Three Companies To Develop New Spacecraft Hartford Courant By WJ HENNIGAN, Los Angeles Times On a cloudless morning, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden stood at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. — where the US dominated human spaceflight for half a century — and revealed plans for the space … NASA turns down Utah firm to develop space taxis St.
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Apple is in talks to acquire The Fancy, a fast-growing social commerce site backed by cofounders of Twitter and Facebook , Business Insider has learned. The objective: to secure a role for Apple in the growing e-commerce market, putting the 400 million-plus users with credit cards on file with Apple’s iTunes Store to work shopping—with Apple getting a cut of the action. While The Fancy is far smaller than archrival Pinterest, which similarly lets users make lists of things they find interesting, the 20-person New York startup, led by cofounder and CEO Joe Einhorn, is much farther along in linking its users to transactions.
Examiner.com RIM admits they very nearly went with Android Examiner.com Instead, RIM could have tried to fork Android, as Amazon.com did with the Kindle, but that would have meant no Google Play. Solving that issue with RIM's own market as Amazon.com did with the Amazon Appstore would have been a daunting task
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The Droid Guy Galaxy Note Release Pushes Through Amidst Legal Battle Between Samsung And Apple The Droid Guy Samsung will not be deterred by the ongoing massive legal battle against rival Apple in a California court by launching another potential challenger to iPhone's dominance, the Galaxy Note. The South Korean company is planning to release Galaxy Note … Apple's Secrets Revealed at Trial Wall Street Journal Samsung to unveil new Galaxy Note in late August Reuters Trial With Samsung Reveals Apple's 7-inch IPad Vision, 'Purple Project' PCWorld Businessweek – InformationWeek – PC Magazine all 1,438 news articles
Wired News (blog) Stunning Images of the Curiosity Rover's Martian Playground Wired News (blog) By Jeffrey Marlow The Curiosity rover is about to finally begin its mission on Mars, after years – decades, depending on who's telling the story – of instrument development and mission planning. One key aspect of that planning was the selection of the ..
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