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The Phoenix lander’s first dig into the Martian soil for scientific study was delayed Wednesday because of a communications glitch on a spacecraft that relays commands from Earth to the red planet.But scientists back on Earth did get some good...
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Google presented at its Google I/O developers conference in San Francisco the current version of the Android operating system for smart phones, including touch-screen technology, compass capabilities and games.
Ozmo Inc. unveiled a chip and software that will offer wireless peripherals more bandwidth and battery life for less cost than Bluetooth. The company is working with Intel, which has already investigated the potential of Wi-Fi personal-area networks...
The city of 4,500 residents has demanded that Google Maps remove images of North Oaks homes from the website’s Street View feature, where any Internet user can glimpse a home from the nearest road.
According to calculations done by physicists of the University of St Andrews the normally attractive Casimir force between two surfaces can be made repulsive. The repulsive force may even be strong enough to levitate a tiny mirror. In theory the...
Levitation has been elevated from being pure science fiction to science fact, according to a study reported today by physicists. Beijing saleswoman demonstrates toy which levitates by magnetic force; Physicists have ’solved’ mystery of...
Encyclopaedia Britannica is about to launch a new initiative [...]. The main thrust of this initiative is to promote greater participation by both our expert contributors and readers. Both groups will be invited to play a larger role in expanding,...
Faviki is a new social bookmarking tool that offers semantic tagging capabilities. This means is that Faviki will suggest tags based upon structured information extracted from the Wikipedia database.
Freebase is an open database of the world’s information. It is built by the community and for the community—free for anyone to query, contribute to, build applications on top of, or integrate into their websites.
Researchers have designed a robot that uses a novel form of electrically activated adhesion to enable it to scale any kind of vertical surface. The robot can even climb surfaces that are dusty or wet, be they concrete, glass, or drywall.
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