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Microsoft brings live TV to Xbox One with voice navigation

By Adi Robertson on May 21, 2013 01:12 pm + 45 comments

Microsoft has announced TV for Xbox One, bringing a long-rumored live TV system to its Continue reading…
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Dish puts in $2 billion bid for LightSquared's satellite spectrum, claims report

By Dan Seifert on May 20, 2013 04:36 pm + 4 comments

Satellite television provider Dish has been making moves to launch a terrestrial LTE wireless Continue reading…
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Google's Timelapse project shows how the Earth has changed over a quarter of a century

By Matt Brian on May 9, 2013 08:14 am + 53 comments

Google has expanded its mapping platform to launch a new project called Timelapse, taking you back Continue reading…
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NASA's Android smartphone satellites return blurry images from space

By Carl Franzen on May 3, 2013 06:10 pm + 37 comments

NASA has taken many images of the Earth from space, but none quite like this. The blurry images Continue reading…
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See imagery of the Earth from the first weather satellite, taken 53 years ago

By Jacob Kastrenakes on April 3, 2013 07:02 pm + 5 comments

The first weather satellite to successfully report global weather data from space was launched 53 Continue reading…
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Google Maps imagery rewoven into elaborate Persian rug patterns

By Sam Byford on April 3, 2013 01:11 am + 7 comments

David Thomas Smith's first solo show of photographic art is called Anthropocene, and makes use of Continue reading…
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Quantum-encrypted information transmitted by flying plane for first time

By Carl Franzen on April 2, 2013 05:50 pm + 14 comments

In a boost to future secret agents and a blow to their would-be eavesdroppers, German researchers Continue reading…
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Nigeria using satellites to monitor crops, watch for oil spills, and help the military

By Nathan Ingraham on March 28, 2013 03:54 pm + 20 comments

While NASA's Curiosity rover project is focused on learning more about other planets, Nigeria's Continue reading…
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Watch live as a record-breaking asteroid passes the Earth

By Amar Toor on February 15, 2013 05:37 am + 102 comments

Later today, a large asteroid known as 2012 DA14 will pass within about 17,200 miles of the Earth, Continue reading…
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Watch NASA launch Landsat 8, its latest Earth-imaging satellite, this afternoon

By Adi Robertson on February 11, 2013 11:02 am + 6 comments

Landsat 8, the latest of NASA's Earth-imaging satellites, is set to launch this afternoon. NASA and Continue reading…