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TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Fri Mar 28, 2008 @ 8:07am neoform

MSNBC -- Japanese scientists and origami masters hope to launch a paper airplane from space and learn from its trip back to Earth. It's no joke. A prototype passed a durability test in a wind tunnel this month, Japan's space agency adopted it Wednesday for feas.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Thu Oct 4, 2007 @ 8:24am neoform

MSNBC -- Astronomers have spotted evidence of a second Earth being built around a distant star 424 light-years away. Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted a huge belt of warm dust swirling around a young star called HD 113766 that is ju.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Thu Apr 12, 2007 @ 4:03pm neoform

MSNBC -- Two months ago, China fired a medium-range missile into space to destroy one of its own weather satellites in low Earth orbit, attracting the attention of many in the strategic community. For some, the Jan. 11 test revealed China’s increasing militar.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Tue Apr 10, 2007 @ 11:42pm neoform

MSNBC -- Google is using its popular online mapping service to call attention to atrocities in the Darfur region of Sudan. In a project with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, inaugurated Tuesday, the Internet search company has updated its Google Ear.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Tue Apr 10, 2007 @ 3:09pm neoform

CNN -- If you Google the word Darfur, you will find about 13 million references to the atrocities in the western Darfur region of Sudan -- what the United States has said is this century's first genocide. As of today, when the 200 million users of Google Eart.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / OPINION Tue Nov 7, 2006 @ 8:19am neoform

CNET -- Microsoft is about to upgrade its mapping product, Live Local, to Microsoft Virtual Earth, a competitor to Google Earth. [See news story.] We got a live preview of the product a few days ago and will have a hands-on review shortly. These impressions are b.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Mon Oct 23, 2006 @ 10:37am neoform

CNET -- Google is expected to unveil on Sunday night a mashup that combines its popular Google Earth mapping program with information about the U.S. congressional races coming up in two weeks... Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Thu Nov 15, 2007 @ 8:22am neoform

MSNBC -- A European probe hunting down a distant comet has beamed back the first images of its Tuesday swing by the planet Earth. The European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft flew past Earth for the second time at about 3:57 p.m. EST to nab a speed boos.. Read More