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(AFP) Virtual and augmented reality gadgets are expected to hog the limelight at Berlin’s mega consumer electronics show IFA this week, as Pokemon Go gave a tantalising preview of the appetite for reality-altering technologies. Videographic explaining virtual reality. Courtesy: Jonathan Renaud de la Faverie Katherine Levy Spencer / AFP Videographics / AFP
BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) — A new unmanned aerial vehicle from Beijing-based technology company PowerVision hopes to shake up the drone market with their eye-catching egg-shaped design. When stationary, the PowerEgg drone looks a bit like an ostrich egg with no obvious signs of the ability to fly. But when switched on, four rotor blades emerge from the rugby ball-sized device to propel it skywards at a speed of 5 metes-per-second. The makers say it is perfect […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Facebook Messenger on Thursday added the ability to stream live video, adding a feature enjoyed by fans of rival application Snapchat. Instant Video lets people broadcast real-time video in Messenger text exchanges, according to a Facebook blog post. “It’s perfect for sharing quick moments with friends who aren’t right by your side or making your conversations richer by seeing each other face-to-face when you are messaging,” Facebook said of […]
by Leila MACOR with Jean-Louis SANTINI in Washington MIAMI, United States (AFP) — An unmanned SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploded on the launch pad during a test in Florida on Thursday, destroying a satellite that Facebook planned to use to beam high-speed internet to Africa. The blast at Cape Canaveral — though it caused no injuries — marks a setback for the California-based private space firm and its founder, internet entrepreneur Elon Musk, who wants […]
BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) — The smell of coffee is supposed to get you going in the morning. Now a French start-up has taken this idea a stage further with an olfactory alarm clock designed to gradually wake you up by diffusing the smell of espresso instead of blasting your ears with an audio ring. Sensorwake is the brainchild of 20-year-old Guillaume Rolland and is being launched at this week’s IFA, Europe’s leading trade show for consumer […]
Data from a defunct satellite is helping astrophysicists decipher the secrets of super massive holes and the hot plasma that surrounds the galaxies. Let’s find it out! https://youtu.be/apucDtWigb4
TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) — Japanese space race team Hakuto unveiled its lunar rover design on Monday (August 29), for next year’s Google-sponsored Lunar X PRIZE competition. At 58 centimetres long and 36 centimetres high, the prototype weighs only 4 kilogram. The weight is kept down by using the latest carbon fibre material typically used for aircraft. Each wheel is equipped with motors, allowing for smooth manoeuvrability on the moon’s surface. Google launched its Lunar XPRIZE […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Monotony was the hardest part of a yearlong NASA experiment about the mental and psychological rigors of longterm spaceflight, crew members said after the test ended. The six-member crew emerged Sunday from a dome in Hawaii, on the barren northern slope of the Mauna Loa volcano, where they were studied as part of the US space agency’s mission to send people to Mars by the 2030s. On Monday, US […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (August 30) – Whether you play it or not, Pokemon Go is unarguably the hottest game available right now. It is a free application for Android and iOS users, which uses the smart phone’s GPS to show aspiring Pokemon trainers the various types of Pokemon they can catch, battle, and trade. Other than Pokemons, the players can also get free items in the game like Pokeballs and potions. These freebies can usually be […]
NASA engineers successfully conducted the second to last splashdown tests with the Orion spacecraft on Thursday (August 25) bringing the agency one step closer to its goal of eventually carrying humans to Mars. The test, conducted at the Langley facility in Hampton, Virginia was designed to simulate one of the Orion spacecraft’s most stressful landing scenarios with crash test dummies inside, a case where one of the capsule’s three main parachutes fails to deploy. […]
HAMPTON, Virginia (Reuters) — National Aeronautics and Space Administration engineers successfully conducted the second to last splashdown tests with the Orion spacecraft on Thursday (August 25) bringing the agency one step closer to its goal of eventually carrying humans to Mars. The test, conducted at the Langley facility in Hampton, Virginia was designed to simulate one of the Orion spacecraft’s most stressful landing scenarios with crash test dummies inside, a case where one of the […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Scientists who study earthquakes in Japan said Thursday they have detected a rare deep-Earth tremor for the first time and traced its location to a distant and powerful storm. The findings, published in the US journal Science, could help experts learn more about the Earth’s inner structure and improve detection of earthquakes and oceanic storms. The storm in the North Atlantic was known as a “weather bomb,” a small but […]
