SPACE.com:
Astronaut Randy Bresnik may be expecting his wife Rebecca to
give birth, but that hasn't shaken his focus for a planned spacewalk outside
the International Space Station today to install new video antennas and other
equipment. (Read More)
Ajaxian:
Jake explains no-one likes waiting, and people are multi-threaded (except when they have to sneeze). Yet, we're stuck with a single-threaded language for the most part; and we still face the legacy of a DOM standard from another era (DOM Level 1 - 1997). This talk provides some optimisation tips, backed by Jake's cross-brow (Read More)
Daily DIY:
Interested in building programs with fancy multi-touch interfaces? Speak Python? Well, in that case you might want to have a look at PYMT. Designed for rapid interface design, it looks like it would be fun to play around with. [via the space station] Read more | Permalink | Comments | (Read More)
Submitted by Louisgray
from Google Reader:
I have already talked about how Google and God wouldn’t get along.Now I have proof.Brizzly recently announced that tweets in another language will be translated to English on the fly using Google Translate’s new real-time translation tools. This means Brizzly is now the only Twitter client breaking down one of our biggest b (Read More)
BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily - Barron's Online:
Tesla: Driving toward an IPO?Tesla Motors, the Valley-based maker of electric sports cars, plans to go public soon, according to Reuters, which cites “two people familiar with the situation.” The story said an IPO filing is expected any day. The company declined to comment on speculation.The company’s Roadster (pictured at (Read More)
Submitted by As1776
from Google Reader:
While my trip to Australia this last week and a half was primarily pleasure with my family, I did get a few days to work with teachers in Brisbane and throughout Victoria (a la our PLP cohort there), and I had some great conversations about the state of the education world with some good friends. Since the trip also came on (Read More)
Submitted by Sfoskett
from Google Reader:
Its interesting. If you search the transcript from Dell's earnings call yesterday for "EMC" nothing comes up.Searching on the word storage, I've copied and pasted every reference I found to storage in it. Brian Gladden (part of his presentation)Storagerevenue was down 8% sequentially and 19% year-over-year. EqualLogicr (Read More)
Submitted by Frinsen
from Google Reader:
Zynga has hit a new milestone on Facebook, and meanwhile, it has just launched a couple ways to increase its presence on the web: A stand-alone site for its hit game FarmVille and a new browser toolbar for Mafia Wars.The San Francisco company now has more than 200 million total monthly active users on the site, according to (Read More)
Bad Astronomy Blog:
• Gardak! To learn about children and language, Dad speaks to son only in Klingon for first three years of the child’s life.• In Soviet Russia, blog writes you! Maksim Suraev, a Russian cosmonaut, joins the blogosphere with a healthy dose of cold war humor about life on the International Space Station.• In a case of Project (Read More)
NASA Breaking News:
NASA's Centennial Challenges program awarded $350,000 this week to a pair of designers who developed concepts for more flexible space gloves that could make it easier for astronauts to perform tasks. (Read More)
Universe Today:
Though the Cassini mission has focused intently on scientific exploration of Saturn and it's moons, data taken by the spacecraft has significantly changed the way astronomers think about the shape of our Solar System. As the Sun and planets travel through space, the bubble in which they reside has been thought to resemble a (Read More)
SPACE.com:
The camera that captured many of the Hubble Space Telescope's most famous images and the "contact lenses" that focused the observatory's flawed mirror debuted Wednesday at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. (Read More)
SPACE.com:
An aerospace engineer from Maine, the reigning champion of NASA's Astronaut Glove Challenge, held onto his title Thursday to win first prize in a competition to build a better space glove than those worn by astronauts today. (Read More)
NASA Breaking News:
Broadcast-quality digital public service announcements are available for download from NASA featuring actor Dwayne Johnson, star of the new film "Planet 51," discussing the importance of space exploration, diversity and education. (Read More)
NASA Breaking News:
NASA's revolutionary planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has been honored with the 2009 Best of What's New Grand Award from Popular Science Magazine and a 2009 Breakthrough Award from Popular Mechanics Magazine. (Read More)