Microsoft Develops Set-Top Box Microsoft has been developing designs for a simple set-top device for streaming video and other entertainment options. More
Amazon may be working on a smartphone with hologram-like 3D Amazon is reportedly developing a smartphone that sports a 3D screen that relies on retina-tracking technology to make images seem to float above the screen like a hologram. With the smartphone, users would be able to navigate through content by using their eyes alone, according to two unnamed people who discussed the phone with the Wall Street Journal. More
YouTube launches pay channels with campy flicks Roger Corman's campy B movies, children's shows like "Sesame Street" and "Inspector Gadget," and inspirational monologues by celebrities — these are among the 30 channels that will require a paid monthly subscription on YouTube coming soon. More
NASA Ponders Why Gas Produced by Life on Earth Is Leaking Out of Mars at Night NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has made a puzzling discovery while roaming the barren surface of the planet's Gale Crater: puffs of methane gas that only appear at night and vanish during the day. The ... 04/23/2024 - 8:37 am | View Link
NASA to overhaul mission returning samples from Mars—here's why it must and will go ahead NASA recently announced that it is seeking new ways to complete the return to Earth of rock cores drilled by the Perseverance Rover in the Jezero Crater on Mars. This has led to some anxiety among ... 04/23/2024 - 5:50 am | View Link
A Nasa rover has reached a promising place to search for fossilised life on Mars While we go about our daily lives on Earth, a nuclear-powered robot the size of a small car is trundling around Mars looking for fossils. Unlike its predecessor Curiosity, Nasa’s Perseverance rover is ... 04/23/2024 - 5:21 am | View Link
NASA is asking for help to retrieve Mars samples that could be the first evidence of alien life NASA bit off more than it could chew when it sent the Perseverance rover to Mars to collect samples ... main mission is to collect samples of the rock and sediment along the lake bed and the ... 04/15/2024 - 10:26 am | View Link
Too expensive, too slow: NASA asks for help with JPL’s Mars Sample Return mission Mars Sample Return would deliver rocks, rubble and dust that have already been gathered and sealed into tubes by the Perseverance rover. The current design relies on a lander that would retrieve ... 04/15/2024 - 9:55 am | View Link