[ October 19, 2016 ] ESA celebrates ExoMars orbiter success, keeps vigil for lost lander News
Artist’s concept of the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter firing its main engine to enter orbit around Mars. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab A European-built orbiter designed to seek out the source of methane on Mars slipped into orbit around the red planet Wednesday after a seven-month interplanetary journey, but mission control lost contact with an experimental landing probe just before touchdown. Both spacecraft — part of the joint European-Russian ExoMars program — reached Mars around the same time Wednes..>> view originalHillary Clinton vs Donald Trump on science, energy, and the climate
Aurich / Getty Campaign 2016 View more stories reader comments 39 "I believe in science." With that comment, said during her acceptance speech with a bit of a bemused smile, Hillary Clinton sought to differentiate herself from Donald Trump. The Democratic presidential nominee next noted a consequence of that belief: climate change is real, and we can do something about it. Thus far, climate science is playing an unexpectedly large role in this campaign. Three of the four candidates from ..>> view originalGalaxy Note 7 owners are angry Samsung is refusing to pay compensation
The Note 7 recall has already passed into Halloween costume territory, but for owners of the phone who experienced its dangers first hand, it's not as funny. According to a report from The Guardian, a number of individuals who suffered property damage when their Note 7 exploded say Samsung is resisting paying compensation. In one story in the report, Note 7 owner John Barwick was woken in the middle of the night by the smartphone bursting into flames on his nightstand. He says the resulting fir..>> view originalVerizon tops 3Q profit forecasts
NEW YORK (AP) _ Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) on Thursday reported third-quarter net income of $3.62 billion. On a per-share basis, the New York-based company said it had net income of 89 cents. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs and severance costs, were $1.01 per share. The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 14 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 99 cents per share. The largest U.S. cellphone carrier posted revenue of $30..>> view originalHeard of LeEco? Well, They're About to Sell You Everything
If you’ve heard of LeEco, it’s either because you’ve lived in China, or you vaguely recall that it bought up US television manufacturer Vizio a few months ago. That’s about to change, because LeEco is making a play for entire US market. What are they selling? Everything. It would be helpful here to explain what LeEco (LAY-EEco) is, but easy comparisons fall short. It’s most commonly known as the Netflix of China, but its streaming services predates Netflix, and constitute just a portion of LeEc..>> view originalFirst Click: The return of Nintendo
The wait for the N64 was interminable But this practice was best illustrated by the launch of the Nintendo 64, a drawn-out process that makes the wait for the NX seem almost trivial. Picture the scene: it's 1994, and Sony's PlayStation is already on the market, but Nintendo's own machine is still years off. The company could rush production on its new console, which had been codenamed "Project Reality," or keep quiet and let Sony take an easy win. Instead, Nintendo took a different approach, se..>> view originalEvery Tesla car will contain the hardware to drive itself
Tesla Motors’ cars will come fitted with full self-driving hardware, as the company jousts with tech rivals like Google and car makers like Ford who are making a dash for the autonomous car market. Model S and Model X cars with the inbuilt hardware are already in production and customers can buy one, Tesla said Wednesday. But the features possible with the new hardware will be enabled only later through over-the-air updates after testing over “millions of miles of real-world driving,” Tesla ..>> view originalBring back the badass black MacBook.
Imagine if Apple introduced a jet-black MacBook Pro. Just imagine. Photoshop by Mark Hobbs/CNET We're getting new Macs next week. And boy, are they late. It's been 520 days since Apple released the last MacBook Pro. 591 days since the last MacBook Air. The Mac Mini hasn't been refreshed for over two years. The processors inside are even older. You could point to any number of reasons as to why. Supply. Dema..>> view original
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