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The NASA Ames Research Center, which some time ago developed and deployed the official NASA iPhone app, is reaching out to space-loving audiences with the announcement of a 2.0 release which brings a completely revamped interface, a stories section, weather forecast, and a feeds button, to name some of the new additi... |
22 May 2012
13:31 GMT |
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The launch of Angry Birds: Space is a big event for those who like their video games mobile and in bite sizes, but soon all gamers might be watching the actions of developer and publisher Rovio considering that it plans to be much bigger than Disney.
At the moment Disney is apparently worth about 24 billion dollars ... |
22 March 2012
21:11 GMT |
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The highly-anticipated Angry Birds Space game is now officially available on supported platforms, including iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. The game costs $0.99 (0.79 EUR) for 3.5-inch screens, and $2.99 (2.39 EUR) for the 10-inch Apple iPad.
Finnish development studio Rovio is proud to announce today that “the ... |
22 March 2012
05:13 GMT |
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Markus Persson, aka Notch, the creator of the wildly popular Minecraft indie title might be interested in creating a space-based game that seems to be able to blend simulation and role-playing elements.
Speaking at the BAFTA awards ceremony during the weekend, Notch has stated, “I think I’m going to make... |
19 March 2012
08:15 GMT |
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Angry Birds: Space is the game which will see Rovio breakout from the casual market and one of the main aims of the development team at Rovio is to get the same on as many devices as possible, including handhelds like the Sony-made PlayStation Vita and the Nintendo 3DS. Initially, Space will be released on the Andro... |
12 March 2012
21:51 GMT |
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Rovio, the creators of the Angry Birds hit series of video games, believe that they have a solid, global brand on their hands and plan to expand it to cover more of the entertainment space.
Speaking during the Mobile World Congress that took place in Barcelona, Peter Vesterbacka, the chief executive officer at Rovio... |
5 March 2012
12:21 GMT |
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Rovio, the company behind the much played Angry Birds, understands that players are looking for innovation when it comes to their gaming experiences in order to keep paying money in the long term.
Mikael Hed, who is the chief executive officer at Rovio, has told AllThingsD that “Talking about ‘user... |
25 February 2012
10:11 GMT |
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Developer BioWare and publisher Electronic Arts have expanded on their recently announced plans to launch copies of Mass Effect 3 into space (actually, more like the higher reaches of the atmosphere) using a number of weather balloons. The official site of the game now has a special section dedicated to the space-bo... |
23 February 2012
06:21 GMT |
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Video game publisher Electronic Arts is promoting its space-based role-playing and action mix Mass Effect 3 by literally taking the series to space via a number of weather balloons that will be launched from locations in New York, London, Paris, Las Vegas and San Francisco.
The balloons are designed to reach the upp... |
17 February 2012
09:12 GMT |
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Those of you who have found a passion in analyzing various aspects of the Earth and of the Solar System have now a new tool at their disposal to download and install on Windows-based PCs.
Dubbed Layerscape, this is a cloud-based tool that relies on the popular WorldWide Telescope. Both of them come from Microsoft ... |
17 February 2012
08:43 GMT |
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Accessory maker G-Form has released a video featuring an iPad encased in the company’s 6oz Extreme Edge flying off into space and then free-falling back to Earth. The tablet computer survived the 100,000-foot fall.
Thom Cafaro, G-Form’s VP of innovations, says his company is usually known for making the ... |
6 January 2012
08:42 GMT |
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NASA had been preparing to send the Discovery shuttle on its final voyage and it seems that the launch was completed successfully, albeit not without a small, last-minute technical mishap of sorts. Those that like to keep track of man's various efforts to better understand and cope with what lies beyond our pla... |
25 February 2011
03:51 GMT |
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On board the space shuttle Discovery which will lift off November 2, the six astronauts will be accompanied by 16 mice, which go to fulfill a historic mission – furnish more data on spaceflight-induced impairment of the human immune system.For the last 25 years, NASA has been trying to find out why spaceflight ... |
30 October 2010
05:39 GMT |
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Comets that crashed into Earth millions of years ago, might have originated amino acids, life's main ingredients, according to a research from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.LLNL's Nir Goldman and his colleagues have found that molecules found in comets, like water, ammonia, methylene and carbon dio... |
13 September 2010
10:01 GMT |
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A study on how an asteroid mission might work has already been made by Lockheed Martin, the company that has been building NASA's Orion space capsule.Next year, NASA would have completely retired its three remaining shuttles, and leave the transportation of crew and cargo to the ISS to the Russians, Japanese and... |
30 August 2010
09:17 GMT |
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The two Iowa State University astronomers are using data from the Spitzer Space Telescope, that is now observing the outer reaches of the Milky Way, to progress in their star studies.One of the two lucky scientists is Massimo Marengo, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy, that uses the information from Spi... |
30 August 2010
05:03 GMT |
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Yesterday, a variety of scientific experiments resumed on the International Space Station, as the Expedition 24 crew regained the investigation time lost because of the ammonia pump module failure.As things get back to normal, Flight Engineers Doug Wheelock and Shannon Walker started to collect samples for the statio... |
24 August 2010
06:42 GMT |
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NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida announced that it will support the new Center of Excellence (COE) for Commercial Space Transportation, that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced on Wednesday.This university-led pool is a partnership between academia, industry and government with the purpose ... |
21 August 2010
05:01 GMT |
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NASA and music passionate can create – if talented, or simply pick up the wake-up songs for the astronauts that will be flying on the last two space shuttle missions. This “American Idol” of space has a website that was opened on Friday, where people can choose from a list of 40 previously played s... |
21 August 2010
04:07 GMT |
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For the first time, twin brothers Mark and Scott Kelly will spend eight days together in space next year, as Mark Kelly will be in command of the last programmed space shuttle flight and Scott Kelly will be the commander of the International Space Station.On this occasion, NASA will organize satellite interviews with... |
12 August 2010
10:35 GMT |
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It has become rather apparent in recent times that Earth's orbit is literally suffocated in junk. Debris from satellite launches, spent rocket stages and satellites themselves are floating freely in microgravity, speeding around the planet at mind-boggling speeds. They can in turn impact other satellites, causin... |
4 August 2010
04:09 GMT |
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An associate professor at the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan has recently proposed a new model of explaining the Universe, one that may be more suited for the job than the current Big Bang theory. According to expert Wun-Yi Shu, mass, time, and length, some of the most basic aspects of the Cosmos, can be con... |
31 July 2010
05:57 GMT |
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Cube-shaped satellites will be developed and launched to low-Earth orbit, the UK Space Agency announced. These satellites are possibly smaller than a computer and they will allow scientists to develop and test the latest space technology at low costs and very rapidly, according to David Williams, UK Space Agency chi... |
28 July 2010
05:51 GMT |
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A new study suggests that auroras are actually generated by temblors of the Earth's magnetic field. These spacequakes are caused by the plasma flying off the sun and even though they are stronger in orbit, they can reach the Earth's surface as well.Spacequakes' precursors were discovered in 2007 by THE... |
28 July 2010
05:14 GMT |
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One of the most difficult things for scientists, philosophers and laymen alike to do is provide accurate and uncontroversial definitions for some of the most common words we use. Two of these words are “space” and “time.” Even though we use them every single day, there is no clear consensus on... |
1 April 2010
06:38 GMT |
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If you want to keep your computer clutter-free, an application that will search all the related files when you want to uninstall any type of software is necessary. But, even if you use one of those, there are some files that will not be discovered and will remain forgotten on your computer, taking up valuable space. ... |
11 March 2010
13:31 GMT |
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Paramount Digital Entertainment and TransGaming have announced the immediate availability of Star Trek: D-A-C for Mac OS X. The downloadable, fast-paced, top-down space shooter allows up to 12 players to compete in intergalactic battles between the Starfleet and the Romulan Empire, and costs just $9.95. An Intel Mac ... |
23 December 2009
08:41 GMT |
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As part of NASA's Centennial Challenges Competition, the American space agency is offering more than $400,000 to the team that can design the most dexterous, strongest and most durable astronaut glove, in the Astronaut Glove Challenge. This is the second edition of the competition, through which the agency is se... |
20 November 2009
02:13 GMT |
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A month late and after five very frustrating delays because of bad weather and lightning storms, the shuttle Endeavor finally blasted towards the International Space Station late on Wednesday, Space.com informs. The launch took place at 6:03 p.m. EDT (2203 GMT), from Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, with E... |
16 July 2009
08:21 GMT |
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Developer Patrick Chamelo has updated Dock Spaces, his Mac OS X utility that de-clutters your view by allowing you to swap through ten different Docks, across different spaces. The new version adds new toolbar icons, and a new toolbar button for easy access to the main functions of the app. With the release of Dock... |
18 June 2009
09:02 GMT |
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Guild Software has released a new patch for its massively multiplayer online space strategy game, Vendetta Online. The update introduces Dynamic Warfare, “a new long-term battle and large-scale warfare mechanic designed to permit inter-faction wars to conquer geographical areas,” as Guild Software puts it... |
26 May 2009
08:27 GMT |
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Welcome back! This week has seen our index get topped with free Mac apps, some better than others. As usual, I've made three freeware picks which, hopefully, readers will find just as useful and fun as I have. Two of the apps are games, just in case you needed a boost to continue scrolling down. One of them doe... |
5 April 2009
13:52 GMT |
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Progresses made in astronomy since the beginning of the Space Age are bound to change our world forever, astronomers say. But scouting the skies and sending missions to deep space is a highly-challenging task, and one that can easily be stopped by various interests. Because 2009 is UNESCO's International Year of... |
2 March 2009
04:59 GMT |
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The MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) market is a pretty big one, which, despite the fact that World of Warcraft dominates it with a massive 11,5 million monthly subscribers, always sees new titles appear almost every month. Space-themed MMOs are quite popular these days, with titles such as EV... |
23 February 2009
15:11 GMT |
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Traveling back and forth in time has been a topic so widely spread, that there's hardly any possibility left uncovered by fiction. Books, comics, feature films and TV shows have all addressed the aspects of time travel, and have proposed various theories on how this can be accomplished. And it's not only th... |
23 January 2009
13:42 GMT |
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Nanostray is a classical vertical scrolling shooter game, developed for the Nintendo DS by Shin'en, and published by Majesco. As is the case with most vertical scrolling video titles, the players take control of a futuristic space ship and fight an endless number of enemies of different varieties and types. This... |
5 January 2009
06:40 GMT |
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The space-themed MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) genre is definitely seeing an ascending trend in terms of titles that are aimed at it. Although there are a couple of games that dominate the market, like EVE Online, that doesn't stop other game developers from making titles and marketing ... |
29 December 2008
13:01 GMT |
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On the big picture scale, the "large step for mankind" made when Neil Armstrong first touched lunar ground is still a "small step for man". There has been little success so far in the attempt to conquer space, for one reason or another. But recent efforts, like the many probes that orbit or land on distant celestial ... |
12 December 2008
04:19 GMT |
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The space elevator has been regarded as a cheaper alternative to carrying crew, equipment or even spacecraft into space, instead of using high-cost rockets to do the job. The lift would consist of a cable (also referred to as a tether or a ribbon) to be anchored to the planet's surface at one end and to a space-... |
10 December 2008
04:05 GMT |
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If you have a genius child who already knows everything and keeps pestering you with annoying questions like "How does Santa cover so much space in so little time?" or "How come he knows where everybody lives?" a North Carolina State University professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, Dr. Larry Silverberg, ... |
9 December 2008
17:51 GMT |
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Star Trek Online is shaping up to be a very interesting title, as it promises to bring quite a lot of innovations to the saturated space-themed MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) market out there. It will focus on the unique story found in the Star Trek universe, and will give players the opportu... |
8 December 2008
09:01 GMT |
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Sapporo Breweries, one of the most ancient beer producing companies in Japan, apparently said "why not?" to the concept of space beer. Since they have so much history, background, experience and success supporting them, the company's officials were likely to extend their views on their main product. But space be... |
8 December 2008
04:25 GMT |
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After their recent Kavoshgar-2 rocket mission proved to be a success, as reported by the state media, the Iranian space experts plan for the following similar missions, Kavoshgar-3 and Kavoshgar-4, to carry animals into space prior to switching to manned missions. What kind of animals they are thinking about has not ... |
5 December 2008
03:02 GMT |
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A troubled American satellite belonging to the U.S. Air Force's Defense Support Program (DSP) program is slowly but firmly drifting away from its designated place, high up in the orbit. The unwanted movement of the DSP-23 satellite is prone to endanger the integrity of other expensive and important satellites in... |
3 December 2008
09:22 GMT |
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The space-themed MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) market is definitely a crowded one. We've got EVE Online, which currently dominates its rivals, but we also have quite a few new contenders that are starting to appear and promise to take the space exploration experience to a whole new leve... |
2 December 2008
02:47 GMT |
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Since the specialists have not perfected the ways of packing, transporting, cooking and using foods and drinks in space, the dinner for the combined crews of the International Space Station and the spacecraft Endeavour was the next best thing. Although the farthest thing from the traditional meals common back on Eart... |
28 November 2008
03:01 GMT |
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The human-generated thrash that's been increasingly filling the orbit of the Earth for decades now turns more and more into a serious problem. Since it is already past the phase of saying a lot about us as a race, something must be done before spacecraft and satellites are actually affected by it. Thus, proper i... |
25 November 2008
10:23 GMT |
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How many of you have ever wondered about how a song played on, say, the Martian surface would actually sound? Assuming you pressed the "play" button on a Hi-Fi audio system, would Bach's famous “Toccata and Fugue in D Minor” sound the same as on Earth, as you would expect? Scientists say that no, it... |
21 November 2008
16:01 GMT |
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Contrary to previous years and administrations, it appears that this time the NASA problem is receiving increased attention from the new American president, Barack Obama. Among the most important issues related to the agency is whether its current administrator, Michael Griffin, should be kept or released from his po... |
20 November 2008
18:01 GMT |
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When thinking of the International Space Station, it may appear to be more of an American endeavor, given that the largest part of the missions that involve it are conducted by the US, but this is actually not entirely true. Still, the European Space Agency (ESA), a major contributor to the ISS project throughout it... |
14 November 2008
08:36 GMT |
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