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AUG. 6 (Reuters) — Cologne buzzed with life — virtual and real — on Wednesday (August 5) as the city hosted Gamescom, the world’s biggest computer and video game fair. Desktop and console games from the world’s biggest manufacturers – including Ubisoft, Electronic Arts and Microsoft – were wired up for trade visitors on Wednesday ahead of doors opening to general enthusiasts on Thursday (August 6). For 2015’s edition, all eyes are on virtual reality […]
AUGUST 7 (Reuters) — A satellite positioned a million miles (1,609,344km) from Earth in between the moon and the sun captured new images of the dark side of the moon on July 16. The images were taken by a NASA camera onboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite. An animation of the photographs shows the moon passing in front of the earth as it rotates. The moon is seen moving over the Pacific Ocean […]
NASA astronaut Terry Virts explores water tension in microgravity by dissolving an effervescent tablet in a floating ball of water. It’s not the most complex research the crew aboard the International Space Station will carry out. But astronaut Terry Virts saw it as the perfect way to test out their new ultra high resolution camera. An effervescent tablet dissolves inside a ball of water floating in the space station’s microgravity. The result is a mesmerizing […]
(Reuters) — A power outage – it’s an experience all are familiar with and everyone dreads. The lights go out, the TV goes black, the computers shut down as their batteries drain. And worst of all – your smartphone dies. This scenario was one of the inspirations for Andrew Byrns of California startup Stower to develop the candle charger. Its simplistic design is based on the principles of thermo-electrics, which have been around since […]
CHINA, July 24 (Eagle News) – A group was able to amaze the crowd when it constructed a house using 3D printing technology under 3 hours. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)
JULY 22 (Eagle News) — Scientists using NASA’s powerful Kepler telescope have found a planet beyond the solar system that is a close match to Earth. The planet, which is about 60 percent bigger than Earth, is located about 1,400 light years away in the constellation Cygnus, the scientists told a news conference on Thursday (July 23). While similarly sized planets have been found before, the latest one, known as Kepler-452b, is circling a star […]
JULY 20 (CCTV) — A world competition on robot making and operation RoboCup (Robot World Cup) 2015 opened on Sunday in Hefei City of east China’s Anhui Province. This year’s event has brought together more than 300 teams from 47 countries and regions to showcase and compete on the latest robot technologies. The competitions that run through July 22 mainly focus on three aspects including robot soccer, service robots and rescue robots. As the world’s […]
JULY 16 (Eagle News) — Benjamin Frederick of Oregon, USA, invented the hydro-hammock, a combined hammock and portable hot tub with in-built heating capabilities, truly perfect for camping. (United States of America) (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)
JULY 16 (Reuters) — NASA’s New Horizons science team revealed new images of distant Pluto on Wednesday (July 15), revealing methane gas, and topography complete with mountains and water “in great abundance.” A U.S. spacecraft sailed past the tiny planet Pluto in the distant reaches of the solar system on Tuesday (July 15), capping a journey of 3 billion miles (4.88 billion km) that began nine and a half years ago. The NASA New Horizons […]
JULY 14 (Reuters) — NASA’s New Horizons team leaders held a news conference on Monday (July 13) to announce that the spacecraft was on course to pass Pluto within a day. “20 Hours, 22 minutes zero seconds, we are about 625,000 miles (1,005,840 km) from Pluto right now I won’t read down the numbers as they go but it’s going to be a really dynamic next 24 hours plus,” former astronaut and five time space […]
(REUTERS) NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is poised to become the first probe to visit distant Pluto, capping a reconnaissance of the solar system that began more than 50 years ago. NASA said images they are recieving from New Horizons, taken on July 9 from 3.3 million miles (5.4 million kilometers) away, are “tantalizing signs of geology on Pluto”. “It is just amazing what we are seeing now. It was a gradual approach and every […]
By Aimee V. Mendoza If we are avoiding scam sellers, we should too be aware of scam buyers. If you are an online seller, you should be aware of your buyers even if they promise to pay you a larger amount for the goods you are selling. For those who are planning to have their online business, or sell something online by signing up on several online shops, you should become technology literate. According to […]
