Living

Aug 9, 2012 2:48 PM   Curiosity's day 3 on the Gale Crater, Mars. All systems are running as expected. There is no sign of sailors fighting in the dance hall, cavemen or any freaky show, and here's the first natural 360-degree color panorama image to prove it. It's a clear day on Mars. You can see Mount Sharp ahead of the rover, in the distance. That's the mission final destination, at the center of the Galer Crater. It shows some details from the rover itself: These is the end of the robotic arm. It's like a Swiss Army Knife, containing multiple instruments like the APXS (Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer) and MAHLI (Mars Hand Lens Imager). Here's the wheel of the rover. The marks of the sky crane's thrusters are clearly visible here. And here too. Here's the complete panorama—3653 x 755 pixels. Click to expand and see the whole thing: View the original article here This post was made using the Auto Blogging Software from WebMagnates.org This line w...

Aug 10, 2012 2:00 PM   The Lenovo X1 Carbon arrived at our office a few days ago, and while the full review will be up early next week, we wanted to give you our first impressions of Lenovo's ruggedized ultrabook. So far: Really good. This is the best touchpad I've ever used on a Windows laptop. It's not quite perfect, but it's responsive, smooth, and works . And while some people still aren't sold on Lenovo's island keyboards, this is still one of the best keyboards you can use. Way better than the crap on Lenovo's U310, at least. There are some issues we're figuring out—it's been taking a long time to wake up compared to other ultrabooks, but we'll mess with some settings and see what happens—but this is a really, really exciting machine. It's light, it's tough, it looks and feels cool, and has most of the good stuff you associate with "business" laptops, and only some of the dumb stuff. Anyway, we're doing benchmarking ...

Great news keep coming from the red planet. Curiosity has opened her eyes for the first time. She took a good look around her and decided that life is good in Mars—albeit a bit lonely. Updated: New images coming in, including panoramas and high definition images from the descent. The Navigation Cameras—the eyes that will guide her around Mars—have been activated and they are beaming perfect images down to Earth. The left camera may have had a problem at the beginning, because at first the image was all dark and with a weird white artifact. It actually looked as if she had eyelids and was slowly waking up. This didn't happened with the right camera, which was sending perfect images from the moment it was turned on. I can imagine someone at mission control singing Oh You Pretty Things! in his or her head. "Wake up you sleepy head, put on some clothes, shake up your bed..." The first two images sent by the left Navcam—on the left—looked black and showed a weird artifact. T...

For the time being NASA is happy to send rovers and orbiters to study and explore Mars, but eventually the time will come when mankind is going to want to visit the red planet for ourselves. And there's a good chance the first human to set foot on Mars could be just an infant right now. So here's everything you'll need to prepare your own son or daughter to possibly be the first person on Mars one day. Because if there's one thing the Olympics are teaching us right now, it's that it's never too early to force your kids down the road to greatness. There's not much you can do to train your kids before they're actually able to walk and get around on their own. But you can start getting them comfortable with other worlds and far-away planets with these adorable Celestial Bodies plush toys. They come in four versions representing the Earth, the moon, the Sun, and most importantly, Mars. And they're a great way to prepare your child for what they might on...

Jul 30, 2012 1:45 PM   Google Fiber is pretty freaking awesome. But we're all geeking out about how it might work, or how we think it's could change our lives. Max Ross is actually living it. Max is a co-owner of Fric and Frac, a restaurant in Kansas City, and the site of the first Google Fiber connection. He'll be here answering questions from about 2PM EDT until 2:45PM EDT. Leave your questions for him below! Update 3:05PM EDT: Max is done answering questions. Thanks for stopping by! View the original article here This post was made using the Auto Blogging Software from WebMagnates.org This line will not appear when posts are made after activating the software to full version.

Billy Gallagher is a writer for TechCrunch. He is also the president and editor in chief of The Stanford Daily. Billy previously worked at The Stanford Daily for two volumes as a managing editor of news. He has also worked in sports and staff development at The Daily. In March of 2012 the Friends of The Stanford Daily awarded him... ? Learn More Facebook announced today that they have opened a London engineering office, adding to their Menlo Park, New York and Seattle engineering offices. The company has 22 open positions at the new office. Facebook says it has engineers scattered at its other numerous U.S. and foreign offices, but this is the first official international engineering office. Calling the city a “perfect fit” in a blog post earlier today, Facebook software engineer and London team leader Philip Su wrote, “Our team in London will start small, focusing on building a core of great engineers, and then grow over time and eventually focus on building products in key areas li...

Pioneering American astronaut Sally Ride died today after a battle with pancreatic cancer. She was 61. In 1983, she became the first American woman to travel to space. But that's not all. At 32 she was the youngest American to have travelled to space at all at that time. What an incredible life. Our condolences go out to her friends and family. Sally Kristen Ride was born in Encino, Los Angeles, California in 1951. She attended the prestigious Harvard-Westlake school on a scholarship, and graduated from Stanford University with degrees in English and Physics. As she was finishing her Ph.D in physics she saw an advertisement that said NASA was seeking astronauts. Ride applied for the job, and was amongst 35 new astronauts hired by NASA in 1978—six of them were women. After serving on the ground-based crew for several missions, Ride was tapped to go up into space herself. Until that point most astronauts were usually military pilots that were used to extremely dangerous situations. ...

Jul 23, 2012 6:58 AM   Google's Nexus 7 tablet is so popular that the 16GB model is sold out on the Google Play store. And that was without any commercials behind it. Here's the Nexus 7's first—about camping. Yes, the Nexus is Wi-Fi only, but hey, the video accounts for that, sort of. Or you could carry a hotspot, or tether, or whatever . What matters is this is adorable. [GoogleNexus via TNW] View the original article here This post was made using the Auto Blogging Software from WebMagnates.org This line will not appear when posts are made after activating the software to full version.

Superman is back! The first teaser trailer for Zack Snyder’s Superman reboot, Man of Steel is now online. Snyder is rebooting the storied franchise (which last tried to get off its feet with Bryan Singer’s 2006 film, Superman Returns ) and this time, it looks ready to take flight. In addition to Snyder, the film is getting a big boost from Christopher Nolan, director of the most recent Batman trilogy, including The Dark Knight Rises . Not only is Nolan producing the film, he also helped write the story on which the film’s screenplay is based. Warner Bros. released an extended version of this teaser at Comic-Con and is also showing it in front of The Dark Knight Rises in theaters. The trailer is an iTunes exclusive but the film already has a Facebook page and general website. Man of Steel will hit theaters on June 14, 2013. Let us know in the comments what you think of the teaser. View the original article here This post was made using the Auto Blogging Software from WebMagnates.o...

Announcement of sale (Download Version) Nintendo 3DS card software (Minami-ku, Kyoto, President: Satoru Iwata Corporate Headquarters), Niokimashite Japan, from 9:00 am Saturday, July 28, two of the following title, the sale of software download version of the Nintendo 3DS Card Nintendo Co., Ltd. We are pleased to announce that more start. ? "New Super Mario Bros. 2" Manufacturer suggested retail price: 4,800 yen (tax included) ? "five-minute train the brain demon training supervised by Professor Ryuta Kawashima terribly Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University" Manufacturer suggested retail price: 3,800 yen (tax included) Version software download, in order to be able to save to SD memory card is inserted into the Nintendo 3DS, do not have time or want to play more than one soft carrying at the same time, replace. It will be released the same day at the same manufacturer suggested retail price respectively (boxed version) Nintendo 3DS card soft...