Clearwire on Monday unveiled “Rover,” a pay-as-you-go 4G network that it hopes will attract new users to its flailing and unprofitable mobile broadband service. Read more…
Archive for August, 2010
Spiral galaxy NGC 4921 presently is estimated to be 320 million light years distant. This image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, is being used to identify key stellar distance markers known as Cepheid variable stars. The magnificent spiral NGC 4921 has been informally dubbed anemic because of its low rate of star formation and [...]
Plans for sending humans to visit an asteroid are heating up, with one company already studying how to rework Orion spaceships into deep space cruisers. Read more…
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is suing several high-tech giants for infringing patents held by a Silicon Valley lab he founded in the 1990s. Read more…
Is this one galaxy or two? Astronomer Art Hoag first asked this question when he chanced upon this unusual extragalactic object. On the outside is a ring dominated by bright blue stars, while near the center lies a ball of much redder stars that are likely much older. Between the two is a gap that [...]
Photos just released by the European Space Agency give an up-close look at the strange, elongated Mars crater known as Orcus Patera. Read more…
A NASA telescope has snapped a stunning photo of a huge, flower-shaped cloud of dust and gas about 5,000 light-years from Earth. Read more…
A scheme to generate renewable energy by simply pulling electric charge out of humid air sparks debate amongst scientists. Read more…
Sony has won a temporary ban to prevent Australian distributors selling a hardware hack for the PlayStation 3 (PS3). Read more…
An open alternative to Facebook will be launched on the 15 September, the developers of the Diaspora project say. Read more…