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8 years ago+15 15 0Back to the Future heads to theaters for 30th anniversary
Just as Star Wars did in 1997 for its 20th, Back to the Future will be re-released for its own 30th anniversary this year. This means that on the 21st of October, 2015, throughout the United States the original Back to the Future will be coming to a ...
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8 years ago+18 18 0Asking Siri to charge your phone dials the police and we don’t know why
Siri has a lot of useful functions, but is thwarting kidnap one of them? Well, no, probably not, but if you ask Siri to "charge my phone 100 percent" then it automatically starts calling the...
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8 years ago+16 16 0Solar Impulse world tour suspended until 2016 due to battery problems
Solar Impulse 2 has suspended its journey around the globe due to battery problems that were discovered after its record-breaking flight across the Pacific Ocean.
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8 years ago+8 8 0Russian Space Junk Forced the ISS Crew to Take Shelter This Morning
About two hours ago—at about 8AM EST this morning—a piece of an old Russian-built weather satellite sped by the International Space Station, dangerously close to the station. It’s the fourth time that astronauts aboard the ISS have “sheltered” becaus ...
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8 years ago+16 16 0GPS gets a satellite launch for its 20th birthday
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of GPS being fully operational, the US Air Force sent up a new satellite.
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8 years ago+21 21 0The Curiosity Rover Is Helping NASA Study the Far Side of the Sun
As Curiosity works its way up Mount Sharp on Mars, studying rock and soil samples, it’s also helping scientists observe sunspots on the far side of the Sun.
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8 years ago+16 16 0Fly Along with New Horizons in this NASA App
The New Horizons spacecraft will start the busiest phase of its flight tomorrow as it makes its closest approach to Pluto, and you can watch from home with NASA’s Eyes on Pluto app.
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8 years ago+17 17 0Virtually Fly With Switzerland's F-5 Demo Team Using 360 Video Tech
The heart-pounding aviation videos we have grown to love may soon be changing into a much more immersive and personal experience. In this video of the Patrouille Suisse going through formation maneuvers over the Swiss Alps, everything is visible, fro ...
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8 years ago+88 94 6 x 1Why The Apple Watch Is Flopping
The Apple Watch, despite years of hype before it was even announced, appears to be flopping after all.
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8 years ago+12 12 0The New Horizon's Holiday Glitch was More Fear-Inducing Than We Realized
When the New Horizons probe glitched and went into safe mode last weekend, the situation was worse than anyone outside the lab even knew. For hours, the lab heard not a peep from their probe, uncertain if it even still existed. When it finally called ...
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8 years ago+15 15 0The Expanse Is the Show We’ve Been Wanting Since Battlestar Galactica
Welp, we have a new favorite show. At San Diego Comic-Con, we got to watch the entire pilot of Syfy’s The Expanse, based on the books by James S. A. Corey—and we were blown away. This is a show that digs into the politics of our spacefaring future, b ...
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8 years ago+18 18 0Solar Impulse grounded for 2-3 weeks - BBC News
The record-breaking Solar Impulse plane will be grounded in Hawaii for at least two weeks because of battery damage, making a complete round-the-world journey this year increasingly difficult.
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8 years ago+35 36 1 x 1How Did We Get to Pluto So Fast?
On July 14th, the New Horizons spacecraft will make history when it sails past Pluto, formerly known as the ninth planet. Even more incredible is how fast we got there. The spacecraft traveled 3 billion miles in nine and a half years. That’s about a ...
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8 years ago+16 16 0NASA observatories back up New Horizons in observing Pluto
NASA's New Horizons is getting more than a little help from its friends -- other observatories and spacecraft, if you want to be technical -- in studying what was once the ninth planet.
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8 years ago+52 52 0 x 1Time Warner Cable owes $229,500 to woman it would not stop calling
Time Warner Cable Inc must pay the insurance claims specialist $229,500 for placing 153 automated calls meant for someone else to her cellphone in less than a year, even after she told it to stop, a Manhattan federal judge ruled on Tuesday.
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8 years ago+12 12 0NASA’s New Horizons Plans July 7 Return to Normal Science Operations
NASA’s New Horizons mission is returning to normal science operations after a July 4 anomaly and remains on track for its July 14 flyby of Pluto.
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8 years ago+10 10 01,776 times American aircraft did something completely badass
Okay, actually, it's only five times — I couldn't resist the "1776" symbolism in the headline. Forgive me. What you're about to see below are five situations where American aircraft, built from...
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9 years ago+18 18 0What being strapped to a rocket launch looks like (hint: awesome)
This is just awesome. A camera was strapped onto a GoFast 2014 rocket--an amateur rocket that set the record for highest and fastest rocket ever launched into space--so that we can see the entire launch from the rockets point of view. The initial bur ...
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9 years ago+19 19 0LinkedIn premium users to get $1 each in password-leak settlement
LinkedIn denies wrong-doing, but will salt and hash all passwords going forward.
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9 years ago+17 17 0This is how NASA makes the rocket boosters that will take us to Mars
This video shows how NASA makes and tests their largest, and most powerful solid rocket boosters ever. These engineering beauties will propel the new Space Launch System (SLS) and its astronauts to deeper space explorations. Mars, here we go.