President Obama met Tuesday with a bipartisan group of senators at the White House to discuss passing an energy and climate change bill this year. Read more…
Archive for June, 2010
The surface of Saturn’s moon Dione is rendered in crisp detail against a hazy, ghostly Titan. Visible in this image are hints of atmospheric banding around Titan’s north pole. T The image was taken in visible blue light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on April 10, 2010. The view was acquired at a distance [...]
A new photo taken by a NASA space telescope has revealed the brilliant southern pinwheel galaxy in a new light, though it�s a cosmic half-pint when compared to our own Milky Way. Read more…
Google Chrome continues to gain browser marketshare, edging past Apple’s Safari in the U.S. and, apparently, also taking some users from Mozilla’s Firefox. Read more…
Intel has begun selling it’s consumer-class SSDs in more than 800 Best Buy stores, marking what is likely an uptick in consumer acceptance of flash drive technology to supplant or supplement hard drives. Read more…
The new Digg is nearly upon us and you need to get ready. Digg, the social news behemoth that crushes servers and melts websites is about to roll out its fourth major version, the ‘new digg’ that you have heard so much about. It is quite the sight to see. Read more…
David Cameron and ball-tracking firms say England’s disallowed World Cup goal underlines the need for goal-line technology. Read more…
The European Goce satellite returns a remarkable high-definition view of how gravity varies across the Earth. Read more…
The group that gave rise to the file-sharing website The Pirate Bay has disbanded, following the death of one of its founders. Read more…
The BP oil spill in the Gulf is shaping up to be the worst environmental crisis in American history. Climate change activist groups have every reason to stand on a soapbox and tout their message about the dangers of oil now, while Washington and the world are listening. But for the most part, they haven’t. [...]