Huge asteroid 1998 QE2, that measures nearly 1.7 miles across, is set to fly past the Earth. The space rock is so large that it is orbited by its own moon. It will make its closest approach to our planet at 20:59 GMT, but scientists say there is no chance that it will hit. Instead [...]
The Start button is returning to Microsoft desktop mode’s taskbar of its Windows 8 operating system, the company has confirmed. The lack of the facility – which had been in every previous version since Windows 95 – has been one of the most controversial aspects of the software. However, it will not offer all the [...]
A fossil of what may be the earliest creature yet discovered on the evolutionary line to birds has been unearthed in China. The fossil animal, which retains impressions of feathers, is dated to be about 160 million years old. Scientists have given it the name Aurornis, which means “dawn bird”. The significance of the find, [...]
Scientists have announced that plants that were frozen during the “Little Ice Age” centuries ago have been observed sprouting new growth. Samples of 400-year-old plants known as bryophytes have flourished under laboratory conditions. Researchers say this back-from-the-dead trick has implications for how ecosystems recover from the planet’s cyclic long periods of ice coverage. The findings [...]
One of only six original Apple 1 computers from 1976 still in working order has sold at auction in Germany for more than 500,000 euros ($650,000). The Apple 1 was one of the first 50 built by Apple co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in Jobs’ parents’ garage. The computer – consisting only of a [...]
The European launch of HTC First, aka Facebook smartphone, has been delayed following disappointing US sales and negative feedback. The HTC handset runs Facebook’s enhanced Home software, designed to be more integrated into the smartphone than a normal app. First’s delay follows a raft of high-profile employee departures from HTC. In recent months, chief product [...]
Microsoft faces a backlash from some gamers after it emerged the company may charge a fee to play pre-owned games on its new Xbox One console. The move would also mean borrowing a game from a friend will require a payment to play, possibly the full price. Microsoft has said gamers will be able to [...]
Microsoft has unveiled its next-generation console, the Xbox One, which will go on sale later this year. Xbox One was shown off alongside a new Kinect sensor and a redesigned gamepad. Microsoft described the voice and gesture-controlled machine as an “all-in-one” system offering games, live TV, movies and music. The firm’s Entertainment and Devices Division [...]
Scientists say they have found an answer to why the penguin is unable to fly. Researchers believe that the bird’s underwater prowess may have cost it its ability to fly. By looking at seabirds closely related to the penguin, scientists confirmed that a wing that is good for flying cannot also be good for diving [...]
Apple has been accused by US Senate of being “among America’s largest tax avoiders”. A Senate committee said Apple had used “a complex web of offshore entities” to avoid paying billions of dollars in US income taxes. But it said there was no indication the firm acted illegally. Apple chief Tim Cook will go before [...]
Yahoo’s board has approved a deal to buy New York-based blogging service Tumblr for $1.1 billion, US media reports say. The acquisition is expected to be announced as early as Monday. The deal was a “foregone conclusion” and was a unanimous vote by the board, tech blog AllThingsD reported, citing sources close to the matter. [...]
Google has been ordered by a German federal court to clean up the auto-complete results its search engine suggests. The court said Google must ensure terms generated by auto-complete are not offensive or defamatory. The court case was started by an unnamed German businessman who found that Google.de linked him with “scientology” and “fraud”. Google [...]
Google has revealed for the first time what view users will get through its “Project Glass” wearable computer. 1. Google Glass responds to voice commands Google Glass will perform many of the same tasks as smartphones, except the spectacles respond to voice commands instead of fingers touching a display screen. 2. Run on Google’s Android [...]
Samsung announces it has developed technology that could sit “at the core of 5G” – the successor to the 4G mobile-communications standard. The Korean company says its equipment is capable of transmitting data at more than 1 Gbps across a distance of up to 2 km (1.2 miles). It suggests the tech would eventually allow [...]
Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have broken through a symbolic mark reaching its highest throughout human history, recent figures from a US monitoring station show. Daily measurements of CO2 at a US government agency lab on Hawaii have topped 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time. The station, which sits on the [...]
US astronauts Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn are carrying out an emergency spacewalk to fix a leak of ammonia from the International Space Station’s cooling system. Live video shows Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn examining the outside of the craft to search for the escape. The crew had spotted particles of ammonia drifting away from [...]
Scientists have built and tested a form of invisibility cloak that can hide objects from heat. Similar cloaking efforts are underway to make objects invisible to light and even sound waves, but this is the first device to work with heat. The prototype, to be outlined in Physical Review Letters, contained a 5 cm-wide flat [...]
The US government has demanded designs for a 3D-printed gun be taken offline. The order to remove the blueprints for the plastic gun comes after they were downloaded more than 100,000 times. The US State Department wrote to the gun’s designer, Defense Distributed, suggesting publishing them online may breach arms-control regulations. Although the files have [...]
YouTube, the video site owned by Google, is set to launch a paid-for subscription service later this week that will charge users to access content on some of its specialist channels. A single-channel subscription is expected to cost $1.99 a month and will apply to as many as 50 YouTube channels, the Financial Times reported. [...]
Solar Impulse plane, which is powered only by the Sun, has completed the first leg of a journey that aims to cross the US after landing in Arizona. Solar Impulse took off at dawn from San Francisco, California, on Friday and landed in Phoenix, Arizona, some 18 hours later. The craft will stop over in [...]
Google has changed the tagline on the homepage of its Palestinian edition from “Palestinian Territories” to “Palestine”. The change, introduced on May 1st, means google.ps now displays “Palestine” in Arabic and English under Google’s logo. Using the word Palestine is controversial for some. Israeli policy is that the borders of a Palestinian state are yet [...]
LG Electronics has announced it will begin deliveries of curved OLED television sets in May, making it the first to offer such a product to the public. The use of organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) allows screens to be made thinner and more flexible than before. The 55 in (140 cm) model will cost 15 million [...]
A blog dedicated to technology news in North Korea have reported that almost two million North Koreans now use the country’s only 3G network. The figure has been confirmed by 3G provider Koryolink, a partnership between Egyptian telecoms firm Orascom and the North Korean government. The service can only be used to make voice calls, [...]
Smart interactive pajamas which, when scanned with a camera phone or tablet, can tell bedtime stories, have been invented by Juan Murdoch, a father-of-six from Idaho Falls, Idaho. The pajamas are adorned with 47 clusters of dots that act like barcodes. When a child scans each cluster with a tablet or smartphone camera, a different [...]
Samsung Electronics has reported a record quarterly profit in the first three months of 2013, boosted mainly by growing sales of its smartphones. The South Korean company made a net profit of 7.15 trillion won ($6.4 billion) during the period, up from 5.05 trillion won a year ago. Profits also rose from the previous quarter. [...]
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