Update: It looks like the International Space Station astronauts are safe, and that NASA’s declared the six-inch piece of space junk a non-threat, reports the Associated Press. Our original story follows:
It’s a piece of space debris from a destroyed Chinese weather satellite and it’s due to fly dangerously close to NASA’s …
Apple’s heady days as one of the Nasdaq’s ruling indexes may be over–for the moment, anyway.
The world’s largest electronics trading market, Nasdaq OMX, announced plans to cut Apple’s weighting in a massive rebalancing of its indexes on May 2.
Rebalancing’s relatively rare, but not unheard of for a capitalization-weighed index …
Pandora might not be the only company getting hit with subpoenas. If the Wall Street Journal is correct, a major shake-up could be involved, affecting hundreds of smartphone apps. Federal prosecutors are investigating whether these mobile apps are transmitting information about users without their proper consent and knowledge.
The …
Space Shuttle Endeavour’s swan song will have to wait an extra 10 days, after a scheduling conflict with a Russian spacecraft forced NASA to delay the shuttle’s final launch from April 19 to April 29.
It’s a matter of who gets to go first, or actually how many get to go at the same time: In this case, an unmanned Russian cargo ship …
Apple can pat itself as well as the iPad on the back for helping pull its iOS family into first place and ahead of Android for overall web use, according to SEO firm ROI365.
Analyzing data from four million unique visitors and multiple websites, ROI365 found that while Android users enjoy a slight “web visits” lead over Apple’s …
Just in case you thought Presidential campaigns weren’t nearly long enough, Barack Obama has done the thoughtful and chosen today to launch his bid for re-election on Facebook.
Why on Facebook? Well, which politician wouldn’t want to post a two-line announcement and get nearly three and a half thousand responses within an hour? (The …
I know it’s April Fools, and that claiming half the sun just disappeared sounds a little ridiculous, but we’re not kidding: Half the sun just disappeared. Really!
It happened Tuesday, during a partial eclipse (caused by us–you know, the Earth) and a NASA satellite in high orbit managed to snap it in action. That’s the shot up top, …
It’s pockmarked, looks a bit like a color-leeched bowling ball, and if you didn’t know better, you might call it “the Moon.”
But it’s only Mercury, first rock from the sun, and what you’re staring at (up top) happens to be one of the first in-orbit images of its heavily-cratered, hard-pack surface.
Thank NASA’s Messenger, a space …
You founded a leading Internet domain registrar, you ran some racy Super Bowl spots, and on vacation in Zimbabwe, you shoot bull elephants. Why? Because they cause crop damage, and you wanted to take out the “problem” animals.
That’s what GoDaddy.com CEO Bob Parsons had to say after animal-rights group PETA (People for the Ethical …
Stop restricting YouTube, disrupting Windows Phones, blocking search boxes, and a bunch of other stuff–just a few of the complaints Microsoft’s leveling at web-search giant Google in an antitrust filing the company plans to put before European Union regulators.
Google’s response? “We’re not surprised that Microsoft has done this, …
Computer maker Samsung has issued a strident denial that it pre-installs secret keylogging software on its computers.
As we reported yesterday, security consultant Mohamed Hassan, writing at Network World, said he’d found evidence that Samsung was installing a keylogging tool called Starlogger.
Today Samsung said: “The statements …
Tornados, Amelia Earheart, Toto, and now some of the fastest broadband speeds in the Midwest–Google just picked Kansas to be the site of a brand new “ultra high-speed” fiber network.
That’s Kansas City, Kansas, to be specific–not Kansas City, Missouri, the city’s more populous municipal twin just across the border.
Google said it …
