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NASA Crafts Smash into Moon in Search for Water
October 09, 2009By Brian Wagner The U.S. space agency has smashed a pair of heavy space craft into the moon's surface in the hopes of finding evidence of frozen water or other potential resources. It may take weeks of analyzing data before NASA scientists announce...
Astronauts Complete 7-Hour Spacewalk
September 06, 2009The U.S. space agency NASA says two astronauts have completed a 7-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station. American Danny Olivas and Christer Fuglesang of Sweden unreeled 18 meters of cable for a new room scheduled to be installed on...
- August 25, 2009
Nokia has just whipped the dust sheet off the Nokia Booklet 3G. A brand new breed of portable device for Nokia, this mini laptop PC sees the company step foot on freshly cut turf, and we’re a little dumb-struck with excitement at the prospect of...
FWIW: Abbreviations increasingly used in text messaging, tweets..
August 18, 2009Messengers, chats, text messages, tweets and other online social networks have led to an increase use of abbreviations. Because the use of electronic media requires users to be brief, sentences are now being transmitted with five letters or less. Users...
Mars Orbiter Shows Angled View of Martian Crater
August 12, 2009The high-resolution camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has returned a dramatic oblique view of the Martian crater that a rover explored for two years. The new view of Victoria Crater shows layers on steep crater walls, difficult to see from...
NASA Can't Track Deadly Asteroids
August 12, 2009A new U.S. government report says the U.S. space agency does not have enough money to find asteroids that could destroy life on Earth. The National Academy of Sciences said Wednesday that Congress has yet to give NASA the money it needs to build telescopes...
Astronauts Survey Shuttle for Damage After Launch
July 16, 2009Astronauts aboard Endeavour began inspecting the shuttle's heat shield for possible damage after Wednesday's launch. Officials spotted some debris falling off during liftoff. Astronauts began their first full day in space by inspecting the heat shield...
Nokia Faces Wrath Of Iran's Protesters
July 15, 2009By Golnaz Esfandiari Ehsan doesn't personally own a Nokia, and over the past few weeks the 26-year-old Tehran resident has actively tried to ensure that friends and family -- or anyone else who will listen -- don't buy the mobile-phone giant's products...
Shuttle Carrying Japanese Lab to Space Station
July 15, 2009By Brian Wagner Space shuttle Endeavour has launched on a mission to finish construction of a new science lab at the International Space Station. The seven astronauts aboard Endeavour began their journey Wednesday evening to deliver the third and...
Windows 95 on iPhone with help of Bochs emulator
July 14, 2009Developers of iSoft team ran Windows 95 on iPhone, its done with help of Bochs emulator and original Win 95 image. See video below. Main trouble is a perfomance of the iPhone and, mainly, of emulator… only windows was booting for 5-10 minutes...