NASA Tours The International Space Station (video)

Take a Tour of The International Space Station:

NASA's "fly-through" tour of the International Space Station showing various modules of the station, as well as a beautiful view of the earth below. Video above published Oct 28, 2016.

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Videos: NASA Orion Test Flight in 90 Seconds, Internet Challenge, Starbucks Reserve Roastery and Café

NASA's Orion successfully completed its test flight. The flight is the furthest a spacecraft built for humans has flown since the Apollo moon missions. This is the story from launch to splashdown in 90 seconds. (Edited by Alan Jeffries.) (Source: Bloomberg 12/5)



In today's "Morning Must Read," Bloomberg’s Scarlet Fu recaps the op-ed pieces and analyst notes providing insight behind today's headlines, including a comment form Facebook Founder and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg. She speaks on "Bloomberg Surveillance.” (Bloomberg 12/5)



Caffeine-addicts everywhere have a new paradise. Starbucks opened the doors to its Reserve Roastery and Café, an upscale coffee mega-store that will showcase the company's ultra-premium Reserve line of coffee. Bloomberg's Venessa Wong got a sneak peek at the Seattle-based flagship, the first of 100 high-end cafes Starbucks plans to open globally in the next five years. (Bloomberg 12/5)

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Amazon Web Services, Tech Behind NASA and Netflix (video)

Amazon Web Services: The Tech Behind NASA and Netflix: Video - Bloomberg:
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Amazon CTO Werner Vogels explains how Amazon Web Services makes companies more competitive. He speaks with Bloomberg's Cory Johnson on "Bloomberg West." (Source: Bloomberg)


New York Times
Facebook Will Curtail Unpaid Ads by Brands
New York Times
Facebook has accumulated one of the biggest vaults of consumer data in the world. It dominates social media advertising the way Google dominates ...
Your Facebook News Feed is about to have fewer ads - CNET


New York Times
Apple Pay Gives Glimpse of Mainstream Appeal for Mobile Payments
New York Times
And even some of Apple's competitors, like Google and Softcard, say Apple has helped ...Apple Pay Rival MCX Open to Other Technology OCT.


TechCrunch (blog)
As Developers Depart, Google Glass Is Ready To Become This Era's Segway
TechCrunch (blog)
Admittedly, Facebook and OpenTable are among the larger developers ... thing for Googleto do now would be to release the underlying technology ...


Sci-Tech Today
Is Amazon Echo the next big thing?
Standard-Examiner
It's not often that I'm intrigued with a new tech gadget, but Amazon's Echo, ... The gadget arrived on Amazon's website with no fanfare. ... Leslie Meredith has been writing about and reviewing personal technology for the past six ...


TechNewsWorld
Amazon's Echo: A Play For The Smart Home, A Hot Holiday Gift, Or Another Money Losing Gadget?
Forbes
All I could see was Amazon pitting itself, again, against big players in the electronic industry – like Apple, Google and Microsoft, who already have ...


Business Insider
Here's How To Figure Out Everything Google Knows About You
Business Insider
When you use Google, you are making a deal. You get to use Gmail and search and YouTube and Google Maps for free and in exchange, you agree ...


The Columbian
Why the Amazon–Hachette Deal Is Likely Good for Writers and Publishers
The New Yorker
The end of the months-long impasse between Amazon and Hachette over ... It is believed that Amazon, which has typically favored keeping e-book prices ... San Francisco and is a business and technology correspondent for the site.


Forbes
Apple Loop: iPad Sales Crashing, Why Apple Is So Addictive, iPhone Demand High
Forbes
Taking a look back at another week of news from Cupertino, this week's Apple Loop covers lead times and demands for the new iPhones, projected ...
The desperate struggle at the heart of the brutal Apple supply chain | Technology | The Guardian: ".... Though it doesn’t actually own any factories, Apple pours gigantic amounts of money - about $12.5bn in the past four quarters - into “plant, property and equipment”, the majority equipping its suppliers to make its products. (It is spending about $3bn - nearly as much as chipmaker Intel, though far less than Samsung Electronics, which has factories making screens, hard drives, and memory chips as well as phones, tablets and computers. Apple can make or break a supplier -The reality is that Apple, as the most valuable company on Earth by market capitalisation, now has the power to make or break a company through its supplier relationships (unlike Jobs’s pique, which had minimal effect on ATI). Being known as a supplier to it has definite value, one company - which is listed in Apple’s top 200 list - told the Guardian: “The value lies in the fact that Apple is recognised as having a high-quality build spec, so a relationship reflects well on that supplier’s products,” an executive said...."

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Myo Armband, The Future of Gesture Control (video)

Thalmic Labs' Myo armband turns electrical impulses in your muscles into commands for your electronics. Switch songs on Sonos or change slides in PowerPoint just by wiggling your fingers. Sam Grobart reports for Bloomberg's "The Year Ahead: 2015 " series. (Source: Bloomberg 11/11)

TECH NEWS

CNET
With its first Lumia, Microsoft aims low
CNET
That is, it's not exactly a flagship phone intended to go after the high-end likes of theApple iPhone, Google's Nexus 6 or Samsung's Galaxy line.

New York Times
Yahoo Buys Digital Ad Service BrightRoll for $640M
ABC News
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer ... Meanwhile, ad revenue at Google andFacebook has been steadily rising by 20 percent or more in ...
Yahoo to Buy Ad Platform for $640 Million - Wall Street Journal
Yahoo bets big on video with $640 million BrightRoll acquisition - Fortune


Wall Street Journal
Alibaba, Apple Talks on Payments Tie-Up Focused on China
Wall Street Journal
Alibaba, Apple Talks on Payments Tie-Up Focused on China ... Chairman Jack Ma said at The Wall Street Journal's WSJD technology conference last ...
Jack Ma Will Take Alipay Public, Bullish On Apple Pay Partnership - Forbes


NPR (blog)
Facebook Friends Ebola Relief, Google Searches For Donations
NPR (blog)
If you're one of the billions of people who use Facebook and Google on a daily basis, you may have noticed some new messaging coming from the ...

BBC News
Facebook new Messenger service reaches 500 million users
BBC News
Social networking giant Facebook said its new messaging service now has more than 500 million users worldwide. ... In April, Facebook had told users that they would need to download a ... said Jack Kent, senior mobile analyst at the IHS Technology consultancy.... 

Reuters
Apple must face US lawsuit over vanishing iPhone text messages
Reuters
"Apple takes customer satisfaction extremely seriously, but the law does not provide a remedy when, as here, technology simply does not function as ...

BBC News
Google to lease former Nasa airfield for space research
BBC News
Google latest "moonshot" is an apt one - it is investing in a Nasa-owned ... company has acquired firms working on satellite technology and robotics.

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Alibaba Invests In Array of US Tech Companies (video)

Alibaba Is Investing Huge Sums in an Array of U.S. Tech Companies - NYTimes.com: "In March, Alibaba made a $215 million investment in Tango, a messaging app. It recently contacted Snapchat, another messaging app that this year turned down a $3 billion acquisition offer from Facebook, about making a big investment that would value the young company at $10 billion...the recent investments aren’t just about size. Alibaba is also rubbing elbows in the sometimes insular world of Silicon Valley-funded start-ups, where a handful of plugged-in financiers can help the company spot the next breakout smartphone app or e-commerce trend before it hits the mainstream...."

Microsoft sues Samsung Electronics
Korea Times
Microsoft has filed a lawsuit against its longtime partner Samsung ... failed to payMicrosoft for the use of its technology in Android-based smartphones ... it would have been a better choice to do things the Google-Motorola way and ...


Dallas Morning News
Amazon Fire phone sure makes it easy to shop
Dallas Morning News
Heck, Microsoft has its own phone operating system, app store and OneDrive ... But until last month, Amazon was the only one without its own phone. With the new Fire phone,Amazon can now sell you a phone optimized to .... If you're fed up with Apple and Google, here's another phone OS for you to try ...

Interactive technology bringing SC museum alive
seattlepi.com
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (AP) — From a simulated flight around the moon to the chaos in the gun turret of a destroyer fending off World War II ...


The Guardian
Microsoft digs in on digital privacy
The Hill
Microsoft is squaring off against the Justice Department in a case that could ... AT&T and Apple have all filed briefs supporting Microsoft's argument, ...


New York Times
Facebook's Gateway Drug
New York Times
Leading the charge for Internet.org is Facebook's chief executive, Mark ... His vision is ambitious: Facebook recently bought a small drone maker so that it ... pseudo-humanitarian rhetoric of rights espoused by technology companies.


Toronto Star
Facebook co-founder wants to replace email
Foster's Daily Democrat
Moskovitz is trying to turn that chronic headache into an afterthought with Asana, a San Francisco startup he runs with former Facebook and Google ...


TechCrunch
Apple Leads in Accessibility, But Can Third-Party Developers Follow?
TechCrunch
Editor's note: Steven Aquino is a freelance tech writer and iOS accessibility expert, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. His work has appeared in ...


USA TODAY
Microsoft has a new NFL app for Xbox One and Windows 8
Engadget
The start of a new NFL season is just around the corner, and Microsoft's been working hard to improve the experience for football fans on the Xbox ...


Gas 2.0
NASA says puzzling new space drive can generate thrust without propellant
Gizmag
A NASA study has recently concluded that the "Cannae Drive," a disruptive new method of space propulsion, can produce small amounts of thrust without the use of propellant, in apparent discordance with Newton's third law. According to its inventor, the ...

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FWD.us hopes for legislative immigration reform crushed

'Now, as hope for an overhaul fades, the group must reconcile Silicon Valley's high-flying ambition with the sobering lessons of Washington. 'In Silicon Valley if you don't like the taxi industry, you start Uber, you go around it,' said FWD.us President Joe Green, who helped establish the group alongside Facebook's Zuckerberg, his former college roommate. 'With politics you have to work through it, and doing that can be very challenging.'' http://politico.pro/1kxKenG 

MEXICO CITY: Fight to end telecom monopolies may be in trouble - Economy & Banking - MiamiHerald.com: "... While Slim’s Telcel will be forced to share its network infrastructure with other operators, and not charge them for calls to its own clients, the framework bill would let it enter the broadcast market after two years. Televisa, for its part, will be forced to publish its advertising rates and apply them to all customers, but it may be allowed to capture a significant portion of the market for wireless services. “At the end of the day, we thought the state was going to adequately regulate Carlos Slim and Televisa. But we see that the law ends up offering them privileges,” Denise Dresser, a columnist and commentator, told MVS Radio. In September, the Pena Nieto administration is to auction off the rights to launch two new television networks. Televisa must provide access to the winners of the two new networks on its cable and satellite systems...."

Google's Street View maps world's largest cruise ship
USA TODAY
Cruisers can now explore Royal Caribbean's 5,400-passenger Allure of the Seas onGoogle's Street View. It's the first time the panoramic-view ...

Google Fiber is coming to Overland Park, Kan.
CNNMoney
The city of Overland Park, Kan., approved an agreement Monday night to bring in GoogleFiber, following the lead of several other cities in the Kansas ...

Does Facebook break up marriages?
MarketWatch
A growing body of research links increased use of Facebook to marital discord. The latest of these studies, published in the July 2014 ...

Facebook Mood Experiment Draws FTC Complaint
InformationWeek
Electronic Privacy Information Center files a complaint against Facebook alleging that its news feed experiment deceived users and violated a 2012 ...

Google's Growing Silence on Saving Open Internet Leaves Fight to Startups
Bloomberg
Google and Facebook are “quiet and they're not spending much” to ensure Internet ... group also include EBay Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Yahoo! Inc.

Microsoft's Windows to aid PC market revival in 2015
PCWorld
Microsoft's Windows OS could play a crucial rule in returning worldwide PC shipments to ... Microsoft could release a new OS sometime next year, which could supplant ...Apple's iOS will receive a boost from the new iPhone due later this year, and the ... How to train Google Now to show you better cards.

Microsoft warns of pending support deadlines for Windows 7, Office 2010 SP1, Windows Server ...
ZDNet
As the second half 2014 rolls in, Microsoft is stepping up its warnings for approaching support deadlines for some of its key products, including ...

Google Rates Internet Service Providers' Video Streaming Quality
Voice of America
WASHINGTON —. Google Inc. is rating Internet service providers' video streaming quality on a new website, the latest development in the fight ...

Facebook Moves Ahead In Beijing, Line Blocked
Forbes
China is extremely wary of offshore-based SNS like Facebook, Line and ... Yahoo's(Nasdaq: YHOO) photo-sharing Flickr service, and Microsoft's ...

Facebook Tries Being A TV Channel With New Mobile Video Player | TechCrunch
By Josh Constine
If you watch one of a friend's videos, Facebook will now try to get you to watch more with a new carousel of suggested videos that appears after you ...
TechCrunch » Mobile

Apple Shares 'Pride' Video Featuring Preparation for San Francisco Pride Parade - Mac Rumors
By Juli Clover
Apple CEO Tim Cook attended the event and walked alongside Apple's ... Apple has now posted a new video of the event on its YouTube channel, .... Korean Government Orders Apple and Google to Change 'No-Refund' App ... Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel for iPad Now Available · Clear for ...
MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors...

Official Gmail Blog: Thirteen new languages for Gmail
By The Gmail Team
News, tips and tricks from Google's Gmail team and friends. ... Posted by Ian Hill, Senior Project Manager, Google Localization Email is a universal ...
Gmail Blog

From Android Auto to OnLive: how video is becoming the secret glue of connected devices — Tech News and Analysis: "In this move towards virtualization, video streams have become the secret glue that connects screens and devices without the need for complicated, platform-specific implementations. And the upside of rendering video instead of code could be that devices have to be replaced less often while getting more frequent updates."

36-Year-Old NASA Probe's Engines Successfully Fired Up by Private Team - Scientific American: "An old NASA spacecraft under the control of a private team fired its thrusters yesterday (July 2) for the first time in a generation. NASA's International Sun-Earth Explorer 3 probe (ISEE-3), which the agency retired in 1997, performed the maneuver in preparation for a larger trajectory correction next week. The spacecraft hadn't fired its engines since 1987, ISEE-3 Reboot Project team members said. It took several attempts and days to perform the roll maneuver because ISEE-3 was not responding to test commands. But this time, controllers got in touch. They increased the roll rate from 19.16 revolutions per minute to 19.76 RPM, putting it within mission specifications for trajectory corrections...."

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Twitter COO Out (video); Xiaomi an Apple Killer

Twitter Is Simply a Bad User Experience: McNamee: Video - Bloomberg:
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Twitter said Chief Operating Officer Ali Rowghani resigned, in the biggest executive departure since the microblogging company’s initial public offering last year. Elevation Partners Roger McNamee speaks on Bloomberg Television’s “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg, June 12th)

Why Twitter's COO Is Out - Business Insider:....According to a person familiar with the situation, Rowghani leaving the company is "really about product, and the speed of the product." All product decisions had been flowing into Rowghani. CEO Dick Costolo wanted those decisions to come to him directly....A different source familiar with the inner workings of Twitter explained the move to us by saying, "I think there was a sense that Ali didn't have product instincts, didn't know how to successfully win at least two problems: messaging and topics."Messaging has exploded in popularity. WhatsApp, for instance, sold to Facebook for $19 billion. Our industry source says, "When you talk to Dick about messaging, he's like, 'Sigh, that should have been us.'..."

Xiaomi Is A Big Threat To Apple - Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) | Seeking Alpha: "...I believe that Xiaomi poses a bigger threat than Amazon's (AMZN) upcoming Android smartphone. Xiaomi, the world's fastest growing phone vendor, has surpassed Apple (AAPL) in China. Canalys Report puts Xiaomi as the third biggest phone vendor in China in Q1 2014. Copycatting the iPhone has made Xiaomi, a four-year old company, the 6th largest global seller of smartphones. The rapid rise of Xiaomi is due in part to Apple's complacent attitude towards it. While Apple took Samsung to court for copying some of the features of the iPhone, Apple allowed Xiaomi to become a $10 billion company by selling iPhone clones using the Android OS. Xiaomi hired Google veteran Hugo Barra last year. Barra is spearheading Xiaomi's expansion in 10 countries this year...."

F.C.C. Begins Investigation Into Quality of Internet Download Speeds - NYTimes.com: ",,,,Tom Wheeler, the F.C.C. chairman, said on Friday that the purpose of the investigation was to see whether consumers were getting the speed and quality of service that Internet service providers had promised. The inquiry resulted in part from more than 19,000 public comments submitted to the F.C.C. in recent weeks urging it to protect Internet freedom, he said...."

Judge calls out LinkedIn over spammy invitations, says emails can harm reputation — Tech News and Analysis: "...The complaint relates to a feature of LinkedIn that invites new users to “Connect with people you know” and existing users to “See who you already know,” and then looks for matches based on their email address books. The users’ email contacts then receive an automated email, and then two follow-up ones...."

Comcast WiFi Hotspot Public - Business Insider: :" . . . if you don't want your Comcast XFINITY WiFi available to anyone with a Comcast password within spitting distance of your home, there is a solution. According to Comcast's website, users can disable XFINITY public WiFi in just a few steps:

• Log into your Comcast account at customer.comcast.com.
• Click on "Users & Preferences."
• Click on “Manage XFINITY WiFi.”
• Users can then choose to disable their WiFi routers from public use and save changes."

BlackBerry Vs. Samsung Android phones: app gap still huge | BGR: "... In particular, Umiastowski says that he absolutely needs to have access to the full suite of Google’s biggest apps such as Google Now, Gmail, Google Maps and Calendar. In fact, Umiastowski says that he loves these apps so much that he’s willing to tolerate what he considers to be an inferior overall user experience with Android just to be able to use them. This means that to win him back, BlackBerry will need to figure out a way to make Google’s apps an integral part of its platform. “I have to wonder what it would take for BlackBerry to just sign a deal with Google to have access to the Play store and all of the awesome Google apps inside it,” he explains. “I can’t imagine that BlackBerry would actually need to run the Android OS instead of their QNX-based OS. Samsung and others skin the UI anyway, so why would it really matter if the OS was actually Android or just capable of running Android apps?”..."

Why Elon Musk is not Henry Ford
Washington Post
Tesla CEO Elon Musk waves during a rally at the Tesla factory in Fremont, California in 2012. (Paul Sakuma/AP). On Thursday, Elon Musk, founder of Tesla, said the company won't sue others that use its patents “in good faith.” That's rare, if not unprecedented ...

Like magic! Tiny particles can pass through long-distance barriers
Fox News
One of the many mystifying consequences of quantum mechanics the rules that govern the behavior of tiny subatomic particles is that individual particles can pass through barriers that would otherwise be impenetrable. ADVERTISEMENT. ADVERTISEMENT.

Galaxy Tab S: Samsung takes on the iPad
Telegraph.co.uk
Samsung unveiled its latest bid to take on Apple's iPad at the Madison Square Gardens in New York this week. The emphasis was on a thin, lightweight design – and a screen that is unmatched anywhere else in the market. Samsung's aim is to provide the ...

NASA's New Smell-O-scope Experiment Sniffs Saturn's Moon Titan
Gizmodo Australia
Good news, everyone! NASA has came up with an interplanetary smell-o-scope experiment, processing data from the Cassini spacecraft and reproducing the smell of another world right here on Earth: Saturn's moon Titan. (Spoiler: It smells like farts mixed ...

Enormous 'Ocean' Discovered Below Earth's Surface (Video)
The Epoch Times
Scientists have discovered vast water reserves near Earth's mantle, a finding that could reshape our understanding of where Earth's water came from. According to a new study by a group of U.S. geophysicists, a reservoir of water three times the volume of all ...

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Amazon Prime Music; NTT Asia E-Commerce (video)

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How NTT Plans to Succeed in Asia's E-Commerce Space: Video - Bloomberg: "Tyrone Lynch, vice president of eBusiness at NTT Com Asia Limited, discusses the company's new e-commerce offering and the future of mobile payment systems in Asia with John Dawson on Bloomberg Television's "On The Move Asia." (Source: Bloomberg, June 5, 2014)"

Amazon Launches Music Service, Adds Another Element to Prime: "The ecommerce company has introduced a music element to Prime, adding to the video and literary media offerings of the subscription service. Starting Thursday, Prime members will have access to Amazon's music service at no extra cost. Prime Music, as Amazon is calling the service, will provide many of the same options as streaming services like Spotify or Beats. Users can stream an unlimited amount of music with no advertisements, play any song on demand as many times as desired and download any tracks that are available on the service."

Can this Chinese phone giant make it in America? | The Verge: "...Despite this brand unawareness in the US, Huawei is ranked as the world’s third-largest smartphone maker, right behind Samsung and Apple. It shipped a staggering 48.8 million phones in 2013, putting more well-known brands such as HTC and Motorola to shame. Now the company is launching its first real effort at building its brand in America, and it’s starting with the Ascend Mate2...."

Google In Talks To Take Virgin Galactic Stake: "...The first will see Google inject hundreds of millions of dollars into a joint venture, with Virgin Galactic folding in the technology it has developed as part of its efforts to build the world’s first space tourism business. The second component will involve Google spending roughly $30m (£17.8m) in return for a small stake in the Virgin Galactic holding company...."

Google Introduces “Google My Business,” A New One-Stop Shop To Help Business Get Found Online | TechCrunch: "Google announced a suite of tools this morning for business owners, offering them a one-stop shop to update their business information, add photos, read reviews and, of course, use Google+. The service, called “Google My Business,” seems to be aimed at those who have yet to figure out how to “get on Google” so to speak; in fact, there’s a button that even uses that same expression...."
https://www.google.com/business/

Digital Summit: Facebook Slashes App Data Use in an Effort to Win Developing World | MIT Technology Review: "....“There are three or four billion folks out there that walk around in a 2G or 3G area but may not have devices or economic standing, or don’t think the Internet is valuable to them,” said Parikh. Making apps more economical with data is one thing that could help such people, he said. Another is changing how mobile carriers meter and charge for data use. “We’re working with carriers to rethink how they price and offer data plans,” said Parikh."

Three Reasons Google Might Be Serious About The Grid: ".... The company employs Arun Majumdar, a former UC Berkeley professor and director of ARPA-E. Majumdar, who heads up the new group, is also world-recognized expert on waste heat, the kind of heat dissipated by servers and storage systems that with the proper technology can be reconverted into marketable energy...."

The Evolving Threat of Amplification DDoS Attacks | Between the Dots: ".... An amplification attack is a two-part DDoS attack that generally uses the User Datagram Protocol (UDP).  An attacker first sends a large number of small requests to unsuspecting third-party servers on the Internet.  The attacker crafts these requests to result in large responses, but they are otherwise normal except that their source addresses are rewritten (spoofed) so they appear to have come from the victim instead of the attacker.  When all the third-party servers send their large responses to the victim, the resulting amount of traffic is much more than the attacker could have generated alone. These attacks often overwhelm the resources of the victim, as attacks in the hundreds of Gbps are possible using this method...."

Contextuality puts the 'magic' in quantum computing
Science Codex
A new theoretical advance explains where the power of quantum computation comes from, and will help researchers design and build better computers and algorithms. The strange properties of quantum mechanics give quantum computers the potential to ...

Cloud Technology, in Translation
New York Times (blog)
An inside look at how technology is remaking an industry, lowering costs for some and handing even more influence to a handful of powerful companies. A Glossary of Terms. WØØt!: Hurray! Migration: Moving data and computing resources from one set of ...

NASA challenge tests autonomous robots
Computerworld
Computerworld - This week robots with no human handler will be making their way through a field, searching for hockey pucks, blue rocks, wooden cubes and the like. The robots won't even know what some of the objects are. The search effort is part of the ...

Russia to quit International Space Station by 2020
Daily Digest
NASA began sending a call out this week for a 'research push' after Russia's deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin announced that Moscow will decline a U.S. proposal to extend International Space Station operations from 2020 to 2024. His statement came ...

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Google Offline Maps for iPhones and Android smartphones; Apple buys Beats a Sign of Decline?

With apologies to Winston Churchill, this is not the end of Apple, but it may be the beginning of the end of Apple:

On Streaming: Apple, Beats & Spotify | Om Malik: "...If that brand thing is indeed true, then Apple is in big trouble — because that implies that the Apple brand is not as cool and premium as it has been. I don’t think that is the case. Revenues aren’t really a problem for Apple. So that leaves them buying into a new category — aka headphones. It makes no sense since Apple can make sh_tty headphones (and some say they do) and get even more premium pricing than Beats headphones....Bottom-line: I am down on this deal. This is a reactive move — at best. Steve Jobs’ Apple would have pushed to make something better, but even he struggled to come to terms with Internet and Internet thinking. That hasn’t changed."

How to save Google Maps offline on iOS and Android devices | BGR: "Google has just rolled out a major Google Maps update for mobile devices, available to both iOS and Android users, which brings several interesting features, including the ability to save maps offline in order to access them later without needing an Internet connection. PhoneArena has put together a quick guide on how to save offline maps on Android devices, although the same procedure is available to iOS users as well.

Google Data Mining Changes: Privacy Reform Needed
InformationWeek
Google's decision to end its practice of scanning student emails for advertising purposes -- and to make "similar changes" for all Google Apps ...

Yahoo yanks anti-abortion ads for violating its policies
CNET
After Google wiped several ads that discouraged women from having abortions because they violated the company's advertising policies, Yahoo now ...

Hachette Says Amazon Is Delaying Delivery of Some Books
New York Times
Amazon has begun discouraging customers from buying books by Malcolm Gladwell, Stephen Colbert, J. D. Salinger and other popular writers, ...

Apple-Samsung Verdict: Who's Winning the Fight?
Top Tech News
Samsung lawyers argued during the trial that Apple's real target is Google Inc., the maker of the Android software that Samsung and other smartphone ...

Amazon Should Make the Postal Service Its Own Personal Courier
Wired
Amazon is expanding its effort to remake the U.S. Postal Service as its very own courier. On Thursday, the online retailer said it will now offer Sunday ...

Facebook Must Again Face User Fraud Claims Over Data
Bloomberg
Privacy cases against Facebook ... and other Internet companies have multiplied as users have become aware of how much of their ...

Google Glass Short Delivers a Moving Mother's Day Message
Mashable
Google Glass gets a bad rap as an invasive, in- and on-your-face technology that few people really understand or have much use for. However, for ...

NASA snaps photos of the Sun at an unprecedented rate
The Space Reporter
NASA has been taking pictures of the sun to predict solar forecasts and monitor the sun's behavior. This is achieved through using a telescope that only filters ultraviolet light. In 2010, NASA launched a spacecraft, the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which ...

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Apple admits "Consumers want what we don't have" in Samsung litigation documents

When your back is against the wall, either innovate or litigate -- guess which path Apple chose:
Apple Fy 14 Planning by Liz Gannes

Apple admits (p. 4): "Consumers want what we don't have" - Apple Documents Show Apple Knows It Is Losing Against Android

Questions for Comcast as It Looks to Grow - NYTimes.com: "Part of the reason Comcast is feeling confident is that it’s a well-run company that is serious about innovation. Twice in the last few weeks, I’ve watched Brian Roberts, the affable, low-key chief executive, demonstrate its next generation of consumer products up close, and I have to say, the future looks impressive. And of course, Comcast is well situated in Washington as well, with a team of lobbyists that as of last year included five former members of Congress and a former member of the Federal Communications Commission."

How Comcast Bought the Democratic Party | National Review Online: "Comcast, which employs more than 100 lobbyists, spent almost $19 million last year on lobbying activities. Its president and CEO, Brian L. Roberts, is a golf buddy of President Obama’s, and a Democratic donor who has contributed thousands of dollars not only to the president’s campaigns, but also to the Democratic party of Pennsylvania, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the DNC Services Corporation, and to Steny Hoyer, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Bob Casey. Roberts’s executive vice president, David Cohen, is a former aide to Democratic bigwig Ed Rendell. Cohen skirts lobbying regulations through loopholes, has raised more than $2 million for Obama since 2007, and in 2011 hosted a DNC fundraiser at which the president called him “friend.” Cohen has visited the White House 14 times since 2010, including two visits to the Oval Office. He attended the recent dinner for President Hollande of France" (read more at link above)

Google Maps Developers Gain GeoJSON Support for Richer Maps
eWeek
Support for the GeoJSON data format within the JavaScript Maps API means that GoogleMaps developers will be able to create richer maps while ...

Microsoft Goes Hollywood in Amazon-Like Programming Push
Businessweek
Microsoft Goes Hollywood in Amazon-Like Programming Push ... All are involved in shows that Microsoft's new Xbox television studio plans to roll .... That lets viewers who watch a big game or show finale a few hours late to see the key tweets or Facebook posts that captured the action. ... Ads by Google ...

Microsoft to drop Windows XP support Tuesday
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer speaks during the keynote address during the MicrosoftBuild Conference on June 26, 2013 in San Francisco, California.

Four Alternative, Useful Browsers Based Off of Google Chrome - Lifehacker
By Spanner Spencer
Four Alternative, Useful Browsers Based Off of Google Chrome .... This might beFacebook, for example, or YouTube, and whatever you threw onto the ...
Lifehacker

NASA spacecraft to crash on moon soon
Sydney Morning Herald
The science spacecraft launched from Virginia's coast last year has been orbiting the moon for months and is about to conclude its mission with a crash into the lunar surface, authorities said. The unmanned spacecraft, the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust ...

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NASA Schedules 2nd SpaceX Resupply Mission

NASA Schedules 2nd SpaceX Resupply Mission for March
Motley Fool
For the second time in less than five months, Elon Musk's rocket company, SpaceX, will be looking to make history next month. The first time was when, on Oct. 8, SpaceX became the first privately owned space company to successfully launch a rocket to ...

Social media survey looks at race, gender and age of users

PCWorld (blog)
Social media users who are white tend to flock to Pinterest, Twitter is popular among blacks and people who live in cities, more people on Facebook are women than men and Instagram attracts adults under 30, a newly released survey finds. The interesting ...

Dropbox for iOS offers new notifications and a pdf reader
SlashGear
Dropbox for iOS has just been updated to version 2.1, and with it comes a few updates that should make your Dropbox experience much more pleasant. In order to take advantage of this new Dropbox update, your mobile device has to be on iOS 5 or higher.

SlashGear

United Nations Reviewing Asteroid Impact Threat
Space.com
The Russian fireball and the close flyby of the asteroid 2012 DA14 on Friday (Feb. 15) came at a moment in time when the United Nations is discussing international response to the near-Earth object impact concern. Detailed discussions about the Russian ...

Scientists create 'sixth sense' brain implant to detect infrared light
Telegraph.co.uk
Scientists have created a "sixth sense" by creating a brain implant through which infrared light can be detected. Although the light could not be seen lab rats were able to detect it via electrodes in the part of the brain responsible for their sense of touch.

Telegraph.co.uk

BMW recall: 51 970 cars affected in South Africa
Moneyweb.co.za
PRETORIA – BMW South Africa confirmed on Sunday that there are 51 970 BMW cars sold in South Africa that are affected by possible failure of the plug connector at the power distribution box. The problem has led to BMW recalling almost 570 000 cars in ...

Alfa Romeo Gloria concept announced for Geneva
Torque News
A collaborative project between Alfa and students at the European Design Institute, the Gloria is a car meant for the Asian and American markets. n/a. Alfa Romeo Gloria concept. Set to debut at the Geneva Motor Show next month, the Alfa Romeo Gloria ...

Torque News

Staples Soon To Carry Apple Products
Hot Hardware
Apple rumors are to be taken with their own kind of salt, but the smoke that's leading to fire here certainly seems plausible. In recent years, Apple has started to offer its products in more places than just online or in one of the few Apple Stores scattered about ...

Hot Hardware

Wii U suffers post-holiday season sales slump
ITProPortal
Nintendo's flagship gaming console Wii U had a terrible January, selling merely 50,000 units in the US. Even though NPD no longer publishes monthly US hardware sales figures in the US market, the data was leaked to Gamasutra by an NPD insider.

ITProPortal

Is HTC One the company's last attempt?
The Droid Guy
We know that the 19th of this month is a very important day for the Taiwanese smart phone manufacturer, HTC. The company is going to unveil its brand new smart phone, the HTC One (according to rumors of course). The rumor mill has pushed out lot many...

The Droid Guy

Sister of Facebook founder to write memoir, kids book
Arizona Republic
Randi Zuckerberg attends Seventh Annual Women Of Worth Awards at Hearst Tower on Dec. 6, 2012, in New York City. Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images. SHARE URL EMAIL. Tweet. FONT: A A A. Photo URL: To: From: Add a brief message (optional): Comments ...

Arizona Republic

Full Size iPad is Due for a Redesign, Analyst Says
Hot Hardware
Investment research firm Piper Jaffray suspects Apple is gearing up to host a press event by the end of April, one in which in the Cupertino outfit will introduce a line of redesigned iPad tablets. Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster pointed out to clients that over ...

Hot Hardware

Adobe Photoshop 1 Source Code Released for Free
Hot Hardware
If there's one piece of photo editing software that just about everyone seems familiar with, or at least acquainted with, it's Photoshop. Adobe's history in the space stretches back many years, and every new edition of the program receives huge amounts of ...

Hot Hardware

Birder Has Already Added 30 Species to Great Backyard Bird Count
The Virginian-Pilot
You don't have to go out In the wind and cold to participate in the Great Backyard Bird Count today. Look at the photographs that Stuart McCausland in Virginia Beach's Brigadoon neighborhood took at his own bird feeder on Friday and Saturday.

The Virginian-Pilot

Watch Dogs Looking At A Holiday 2013 Release
Gaming Union
E3 2012 was taken by surprise last year when Ubisoft announced Watch Dogs. The game had unbelievable graphics and totted some pretty unique gameplay as well as multiplayer. The game now has a more detailed time for release thanks to a marketing...

Gaming Union

New Stats Show Apple's iPhone Dominance in Web Traffic due to Savvier users
Patently Apple
Apple and Samsung are two of the most powerful players in the mobile industry today with 91% market share for iOS and Android smartphones. Both companies launched new flagship smartphones in 2012 with Apple's iPhone 5 and Samsung's Galaxy S III.

Bioshock Infinite's new “Truth from Legend” trailer explains Songbird

TechnologyTell (blog)
With Bioshock Infinite coming out in about a month, trailers for the game have been coming down like water from a waterfall. This new trailer serves as a part two to Irrational Games' psudo-documentary, Truth From Legend: Columbia, A Modern Day Icarus?, ...

Microsoft's new job listing leaks more Windows Blue data

StudentNewsIE.com
We have had our share of rumors about the upcoming update from Microsoft for Windows 8 for computers, Windows Phone for smart phones, and Windows Server 2012. This update is the Windows Blue. The update is coming to both Windows Phone 8 ...

Will the new BlackBerry click in the Indian smartphone market?
Livemint
Reports peg the India price of the Blackberry Z10, expected to launch in the country on 25 February, at around `39,000. Photo: Mark Blinch/ Reuters. Also Read. Restructuring gave us the ticket to race last year: BlackBerry CEO. Updated: Sun, Feb 17 2013.

Livemint

Tesla Motors' CEO fought fire with facts, and he may have won
National Post
This week's highly-publicized exchange between the New York Times' John Broder and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk has become an amazing case study for the idea of truth in journalism, and the significant hurdles facing the future of electric automobiles.

National Post

Russia cleans up after meteor blast injures more than 1000
Reuters
By Andrey Kuzmin. CHELYABINSK, Russia | Sat Feb 16, 2013 4:02pm EST. CHELYABINSK, Russia (Reuters) - Thousands of Russian emergency workers went out on Saturday to clear up the damage from a meteor that exploded over the Ural mountains, ...

Aussie Observatories Had Front-Row Seats To Asteroid 2012 DA14. Here Are ...

Gizmodo Australia
27,700km sounds far, far away… but not when you're talking about a 50m wide, 190,000t asteroid. In this case, it's 2012 DA14, which made its pass by our tiny area in the Solar System in the early hours of Saturday. It was close enough for a number of ...

Russian meteorite images caught on dashboard cameras
NDTV
It is no coincidence the first videos that captured the images of a meteorite breaking apart over central Russia on Friday were shot from drivers' dashboard cameras. The small video cameras, fixed to the dashboard or rear view mirror of a car to film oncoming ...

NDTV

Apps for your day to keep the doctor away
Times of India
Regardless of where you go, your cell phone is always with you - whether it's on your morning walk, to the office, out lunching with colleagues, an evening with friends, or a workout session at the gym. Why, you probably sleep with the device besides you too.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2' week one championship qualifier recap
Examiner.com
Related topics. Call of Duty Black Ops 2 · black ops 2 · Call of Duty Championship. Advertisement. Activision posted a recap yesterday on the "Call of Duty" Elite website of the week one qualifying matches for “Call of Duty: Black Ops 2” hosted by Major ...

LinkedIn unveils new feature to help members find their dream job
IBNLive
New Delhi: LinkedIn, the social network for professionals, has unveiled a new feature - LinkedIn Jobs, as per a blog post. LinkedIn's Vaibhav Goel elaborates that the new LinkedIn Jobs is an attempt at helping users find their dream job. The feature brings ...

IBNLive

Climate change action within Obama's grasp
Palm Beach Post
President Barack Obama needs the Republican Party's blessing for many of the proposals he outlined in his State of the Union address last week, but climate change is not one of them. Using existing laws, regulations and international agreements, the ...

Rumor: Sony to Unveil Game Streaming Capabilities on PlayStation 4
PC Magazine
Let the rumors continue! With the impending (likely) announcement of Sony's new PlayStation console but a few days away, a new report from the Wall Street Journal suggests that Sony will also be unveiling new streaming capabilities for the device this ...

A full-featured keyboard pairs with the Apple iPad Mini
Times of Oman
While the small size of the iPad Mini is its charm, it is also a liability. The challenge of typing on a glass keyboard increases as its size shrinks. But accessory makers have come to the rescue. For the Mini, Logitech has created a diminutive keyboard with ...

Times of Oman

Soon Facebook Will Let You Pay To Promote Friends' Posts
Babble
facebook-logo2-300x300 Want to help your friends promote their Facebook posts? Well, soon you can do more than just share your friends' posts on your own wall – you can actually pay to promote their posts as well. These days, an average of only about ...

Sega's Back In The Hardware Game With A Gaming PC
Gameranx
Sega's back in the hardware game—but before you get excited about a new Dreamcast, just know that the game publisher has instead announced a line-up of retro-themed gaming laptops. Co-developed by Japanese PC retailer Enterbrain, the new laptops ...

Gameranx

Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Electric Drive Technology Powers Cigarette Boat
GTspirit
Mercedes AMG has incorporated the technology used in the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Electric Drive to power a Cigarette Racing boat. The partnership involves a cooperation between the German firm and Affalterbach Miami. The project has produced the ...

GTspirit

Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey hits Kickstarter target, gameplay ...
games.on.net
In just over a week, generous backers have met and exceeded Red Thread Games' US $850,000 Kickstarter goal for Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey. A new thank you video has been released, but the developer has also posted new stretch goals ...

EA and Zynga agree to settle The Ville dispute

ITProPortal
Electronic Arts and Zynga have reached a settlement over the dispute involving the massively popular title The Ville. With this development, both the gaming giants are now believed to be working towards dismissing the lawsuit that EA filed against Zynga last ...

German court rules in favor of Facebook: no more pseudonyms for account holders
VR-Zone
A recent court battle in Germany over the legality of Facebook's real name policy has temporarily halted. Facebook argued that they do not observe German privacy laws because their E.U. headquarters are in Ireland—the court agreed, at least for now.

VR-Zone

Opera Buys Skyfire
RootzWiki
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RootzWiki

Tamagotchis are back and taking over your smartphone
Canada.com
Namco Bandai is going after the late teens to early 20s crowd that experienced the initial Tamagotchi craze first hand as children. The app is basically the exact same first-generation Tamagotchi you might have owned years ago. It features the same pixelated ...

Canada.com

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