A minor glitch with the nuclear power plant of NASA’s ambitious Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity has not derailed its planned 2011 launch. Read more…
Archive for March, 2010
Inside the Clean Room at JPL as we witness assembly of the 1-ton Mars Science Laboratory rover “Curiosity.” Read more…
Chris and his wife Madeline decided to make one more for themselves: a t-shirt that lights up when you have new emails, and also tells you the number in your inbox. Read more…
If Steve Jobs has seen the future then the future is not a library but a digital bookshelf from which one purchases an e-book and reads it on a 9.56-inch by 7.47-inch multi-touch screen. But, as exciting as the iPad is, there’s something libraries have going for them that gives them an edge… Read more…
Twitter has just rolled out a new homepage that non-logged in users see when they visit Twitter.com. It features scrolling trending topics, “top tweets” (a tweet from Justin Bieber was the first one I saw… go figure), and a “who’s here” with avatars of well-known users and brands that are on the microblogging service. Read [...]
US technology firms and privacy groups seek an overhaul of privacy laws, saying officials have too much access to online data. Read more…
Google says that a problem with its Chinese service was internal rather than an official block, as reports had suggested. Read more…
Sony says it will disable a feature of its PlayStation 3 in a move some consider to be a pre- emptive strike against piracy. Read more…
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion continues to command the largest smartphone market share, and it’s likely to hold a leading position even if the rumor that Apple is developing an iPhone to run on the Verizon Wireless network proves true. Read more…
Google’s search engine was down in China on Tuesday — a glitch the company initially said was due to its own technical tweaks, but now claims was caused by the Chinese government’s Internet filtering. Read more…