Israel nonprofit competing in the Google Lunar X Prize competition — will use SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket to launch its lunar lander into space, the group announced today in Jerusalem. he rocket will launch the team's vehicle into lower Earth orbit sometime in the second half of 2017. From there,…
Giving the same information to multiple scientific teams can lead to very different conclusions, a report published today in Nature shows. (más…)
Starting on September 30th, everybody will be able to install Apple's latest OS X update, El Capitan, on their Macs. El Capitan is the small one in Apple's big-then-small OS update cadence, which means that we have just a few core changes, a bunch of app updates, and a healthy…
It were perhaps vain to surmise exactly why it was, that as respecting Starbuck, Ahab thus acted. It may have been a flash of honesty in him; or mere prudential policy which, under the circumstance, imperiously forbade the slightest symptom of open disaffection, however transient, in the important chief officer…
At about 2 a.m. on Dec. 24, Santa Claus will lift off from his village in the North Pole to deliver billions of presents to children around the world within 24 hours—or at least that's Google's projected timetable, based on nine previous years of tracking the jolly elf on his…
A new Surface and new Lumia smartphones might be what everyone was waiting to hear about at today's Microsoft event, but the company made it clear it's still chugging along in another area: wearables. Microsoft's newest wearable is called Microsoft Band, the same name as last year's activity-tracker. The new…
Amber Cove, a new port development along the north coast of the Dominican Republic, officially opened on Tuesday with the arrival of its first ship, the 2,754-passenger Carnival Victory. Development by cruise giant Carnival Corp. at a cost of $85 million, the 25-acre complex near the town of Puerto Plata is being…
Blighted by the night, vanquishing the plight by the children of the light. No video game character conveys endearment and sadism in a single expression as well as the Blue Slimes. In Dragon Quest Heroes: The World’s Tree Woe and the Blight Below, these iconic teardrop-shaped blobs have never looked…
While you may have thought matte manicures hit their peak in 2010, the nail pros of Instagram are proving otherwise. Patterns, accents, and different nail shapes prove that this fun lacquer finish is anything but flat.
CD Projekt Red has already addressed The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt's infinite money exploits involving cow hides and pearls. But now, players who benefited from the get-rich-quick scheme are being approached by a local tax man. The tax man even cites a specific statute: "Whoever purchases goods at an unseemly…
Lily Allen has released two new songs from the Pan soundtrack. Written and produced by Keane's Tim Rice-Oxley, "Something's Not Right" and "Little Soldier" speak to Allen's vocal strengths and match the movie's wistful narrative. Alice dodged behind a great thistle, to keep herself from being run over; and the…
The fifth season of the American television drama series Homeland, consisting of 12 episodes, premiered on October 4, 2015 on Showtime.[1] The series is loosely based on the Israeli television series Hatufim (English: Prisoners of War) created by Gideon Raff and is developed for American television by Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa.[2]
Byrne previewed the upcoming performances alongside the Atomic Bomb Band, which included LCD Soundsystem’s Pat Mahoney, Sinkane, and Money Mark. (más…)
The dancing competition show, which will not see Len Goodman come back to sit at the judges' table with Julianne Hough, Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli, will return with Tom Bergeron and Erin Andrews as co-hosts. Dancing With the Stars revealed its season 21 celebrity-professional dancer pairings during Good Morning America on…
Mark Zuckerberg details plans on how company is ‘exploring ways to use aircraft and satellites to beam internet access down into communities from the sky’ I had gone but a short distance further when what seemed to be an excellent trail opened up around the face of a high cliff.…
