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BEIJING, China (AFP) — China on Sunday announced the launch of a powerful rocket designed to carry communication satellites into orbit had been “unsuccessful”, in a glitch for the country’s ambitious space programme. The Long March-5 Y2, Beijing’s second heavy-lift rocket, blasted off at 7:23 pm (1123 GMT) Sunday from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in the tropical island province of Hainan “Abnormity was detected during the flight of the rocket,” the Xinhua news agency […]
TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) — Curious visitors to a Tokyo technology expo queued to experience a new product that lets music fans “taste” the tunes they’re listening to. Japanese firm Nomura’s open innovation lab NOMLAB displayed “Squeeze Music”, its jukebox-inspired juice maker that blends a glass of juice according to the mood of the tune it’s playing. Akinori Goto, one of the developers, said software inside the jukebox analyses a waveform of the selected tune into […]
CALIFORNIA, United States (Reuters) – SpaceX called off a satellite launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida less than 10 seconds before liftoff Sunday (July 2) because of a technical issue with the company’s Falcon 9 rocket. Falcon 9 engineer John Insprucker said, “We’ll take a look at what the data is and then figure out what our next launch opportunity is going to be.”
Reuters — Researchers at Stanford University are taking on space debris with an adhesive that mimics the way gecko lizards cling to surfaces without falling. United States space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration estimates that more than half a million pieces of space junk – from defunct satellites to marble-sized fragments like lens covers and copper wire – are orbiting Earth. Millions more are too small to track. And because they’re hurtling around at […]
ARIZONA, United States (Reuters) – Facebook Inc. said on Thursday (June 29) it had completed a second test of an unmanned aircraft designed to some day beam internet access to remote parts of the planet, and unlike in the first test, the drone did not crash. Facebook plans to develop a fleet of drones powered by sunlight that will fly for months at a time, communicating with each other through lasers and extending Internet connectivity […]
LEIDEN, Netherlands (Reuters) — Researchers at the Leiden’s Naturalis Biodiversity Center announced on Monday (June 26) the discovery of a 500-gram-meteorite that could help shed light on the origin of our solar system. In a statement, the research center said several people in the Netherlands and Belgium witnessed on January 11 a fireball flying over the Dutch town of Broek in Waterland, making it the sixth meteorite to be found in the Netherlands in two […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — The Artificial Intelligence Expo opened its doors in Tokyo on Wednesday (June 28) for the first time ever, showcasing a variety of next-generation technologies from a robotic sommelier to an emotion analyzer. Japanese logistics solution company VINX collaborated with AI developer Sensy to create the “robot sommelier” which can suggest the best bottle to satisfy a customer’s specific tastes by asking them to fill out a questionnaire following a short tasting […]
ENGLAND, United Kingdom (Reuters) — Could scent-delivery systems improve your driving or help inform your route planning while behind the wheel? These are among the questions being asked by University of Sussex researchers testing four commercially available scent delivery systems rigged up to a car driving simulator. Postdoctoral researcher Emanuela Maggioni told Reuters that vision and sound have long been the dominant modalities for drivers, but that our sense of smell could have a future […]
by Tangi Quemener Agence France-Presse LE BOURGET, France (AFP) – Aeronautics giants are treating the idea of a flying car with caution, as such a project raises more questions than it answers, experts say — it’s a child’s dream, a millionaire’s toy. But is it really the next big thing in transport? At this year’s Paris Air Show, you had to search hard to find an aircraft that looked anything like an automobile: but one […]
by By Oleksandr Savochenko with Maria Antonova in Moscow and AFP bureaus Agence France Presse KIEV, Ukraine (AFP) — A global wave of cyberattacks that began in Russia and Ukraine on Tuesday wrought havoc on government and corporate computer systems as it spread to Western Europe and across the Atlantic. Several multinational companies said they were targeted, including United States pharmaceutical giant Merck, Russian state oil giant Rosneft, British advertising giant WPP and the French […]
by Alex Pigman Agence France Presse The European Union hit Google with a record 2.4-billion-euro fine Tuesday for illegally favoring its shopping service in search results, in a fresh assault on United States firms that risks the wrath of President Donald Trump. Hard-charging European Commission competition chief Margrethe Vestager said the tech giant “abused its market dominance” as the world’s most popular search engine to give an advantage to its Google Shopping service. “What Google has […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Facebook is starting production on high-quality television series and gaming shows to be broadcast on its platform, one of the social media giant’s executives said on Monday. The online platform, which has around two billion monthly users worldwide, is working on the project with a small group of partners and hopes to start putting out episodes of its forthcoming series by the end of the summer, Nick Grudin, the […]
