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cylonlover writes
"Generally speaking, companies developing suborbital manned vehicles brag about how much elbow room their spacecraft will provide passengers. They say there will be plenty of room to float around during the weightless portion of the flight, that there will be no fighting for windows, that passengers will comfortably endure the high-g portions of the flight ... and then there's Copenhagen Suborbitals' (CS) Tycho Brahe. CS's Tycho Brahe is a one-passenger capsule intended for a purely ballistic flight to a peak altitude approaching 100 miles. The passenger is just along for the ride, with no mechanism to steer or otherwise pilot the capsule."Link to Original Source
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wintersynth writes
"Kickstarter-funded audio-adventure game, BlindSide, launched today on the iOS App Store . The adventure/horror game uses gyros in the phone to create an audio-only virtual reality experience ."Link to Original Source
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ShipLives writes
"Mobile security researchers are announcing a global effort to share code from malware targeting the Android platform, to facilitate research efforts."Link to Original Source
33237105
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jjp9999 writes
"With all the potentially habitable exoplanets now being found, and with NASA and DARPA funding the 100 Year Starship program to build a ship capable of reaching these planets, it’s an exciting time in space exploration. But there’s a lot more importance to this than what’s on the surface. DARPA is hoping it will help technology advance. NASA wants to rekindle interest in STEM. But for Jill Tarter, who directs the SETI Institute’s searches for intelligent life elsewhere, there are higher hopes, still. Tarter hopes that any sign of life in this new venture through the universe will rekindle hope in technology. ‘It won’t solve our problem, but it will show us there is a path to becoming old—becoming a long-lived technological civilization,’ she said. ‘It would be incredibly motivating and positive to see that it’s possible to get beyond our technological adolescence where we find so many reasons to have negative feelings about the future.’"Link to Original Source
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1sockchuck writes
"New photos from inside Google's data centers show servers housed in racks on wheels. In recent years, cloud builders have begun having servers delivered pre-populated in racks for "rack-and-roll" deployment. The photos were released as part of a presentation explaining how an email travels through Google's infrastructure to your inbox. But they offer clues (and raise questions) about the inner realm of the data centers where Google houses its 900,000-plus servers."Link to Original Source
