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The private spaceflight company SpaceX declared that 2012 would be the "Year of the Dragon" - a play on the current cycle of the Chinese calendar and the upcoming tests of SpaceX's Dragon space capsule. For a time, it seemed as if SpaceX was regretting that slogan. Dragon was chosen as one of five competitors for NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) contest to develop a cargo/passenger craft to service the International Space Station. The Dragon program had enjoyed considerable success and was scheduled to be the first private spacecraft to visit and, if all went well, dock with the International Space Station (ISS). Unfortunately, with the need for more testing of the Dragon capsule delaying the launch from its original February 7, 2012 date to late March or even into April, it looked as though the Year of the Dragon was starting a bit late... Continue Reading SpaceX Dragon's ultimate mission is Mars colonization
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Josh Powell and his two sons died in a blast at Powell's Washington home, a Pierce County sheriff's spokesman said. Utah police previously had identified Powell as the lone "person of interest" in the disappearance of his wife Susan Powell-Cox in 2009.     
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After world leaders decried the U.N. Security Council's failure to pass a resolution on Syria, reports of violence surged once again in the besieged country.   
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 Good Old Games is running a $4.99 sale on multiple Sierra titles including Space Quest and Kings Quest. The games come in packages of three and are compatible with Windows (sorry, Mac users, but here's a consolation prize).
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 Back in 2009, my colleague MG Siegler wrote a brilliant piece titled 'Keep It Simple, Stupid,' which delved into how having a simple and easy to use product is a key formula for winning in the consumer tech space. A few days ago, Greylock Partner John Lilly echoed MG's thoughts, explaining that simplicity is quite simply very hard to beat. While this doctrine has been applied tonconsumer technology products like Dropbox, Gmail, Twitter and most famously, Apple; reinforcing simplicity in the product thought process is becoming an ever-present part of enterprise technology as well.
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Feb. 5 - An icy cold front continues to claim lives in Europe as some try to make the best of a bad situation. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.    
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Birdlike lungs and other factors may have allowed dinosaurs to grow to soaring heights. 
 
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Microsoft has removed the “Start” menu button from its upcoming Windows 8 operating system, according to a consumer preview released earlier this week. The Start button. which made its debut in the Windows 95 version of the OS, sits on … 
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Some will go home heroes, some will fail miserably. Reputations will be built and destroyed tonight.No, we’re not talking about the guys…
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Philippe Kahn, an icon in the software and overall IT industry, is slated to talk about his invention of the camera phone as part of a Best Buy commercial that will air during the Super Bowl. - IT industry pioneer Philippe Kahn is set to star in a Super Bowl advertisement during the big game Sunday evening.Kahn, who founded software tools powerhouse Borland International and other concerns, is slated to take part in a Best Buy spot focusing on tech innovators during the Super Bowl. The B...
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Apple's A5 System on a Chip incorporates dedicated noise reduction circuitry by Audience, Inc., which optimizes the performance of Siri voice recognition on iPhone 4S.
 Apple’s all-in-one physical flat-screen iTV is coming, make no mistake. And, when it does, it will represent Apple’s attempt to reinvent the television experience in much the same way it did for music. But, while media execs were hopelessly naive in Apple's presence back then, they feel they are ready this time. They are determined not to let Apple rule the premium online video world like they did (and still do) for online music. The question is, do they have the will?
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Memory company Micron Technology has appointed Mark Durcan as its new CEO, quickly replacing the former CEO Steve Appleton who died in a plane crash on Friday.
    
  
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Feb. 5 - Residents of Sarajevo hit the snowy streets in an effort to help the city's stray dogs. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.   
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Demonstrators clashed with police outside the interior ministry in Cairo on Sunday as anger mounts over a deadly stampede at a soccer match that killed dozens last week.   
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Plenty of bargains are emerging, but it turns out it's not a great month to snap up a digital camera. Here's the lineup.
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Thousands of computers still infected with the DNSChanger Trojan will not be able to access the Internet after the FBI shuts down its temporary servers March 8. - Some of the major organizations still have not removedthe DNSChanger Trojan from infected computers, despite the fact the botnet'scommand-and-control infrastructure has been under the Federal Bureau ofInvestigation's control for the past few months.The primary function of the DNSChanger m...
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On average, 100 million people watch the Super Bowl. With connected devices everywhere, we'll be tweeting about it and sharing thoughts on social networks. So will fans at the game. Here are some staggering numbers showing how Super Bowl 46 is ready for such mobility.
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Feb. 5 - U.S. Secretary of State Clinton calls veto by Russia and China of U.N. resolution on Syria a "travesty" as Syria's Assad attends mosque service. Deborah Lutterbeck reports   
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 The Artist parades its conceit at every turn of its familiar romance. We're doing this no sound thing for you because it's good for you. Things will work out fine. The dog needs no dialogue. The music tells you what to feel. It's already half over, and besides, it's already better than the last five movies you've seen.Google Search + parades its conceit at every turn. It's free, so we can improve it any way we want. We're already reading everything you write in Gmail, so now we're blurring the metadata into one big data pool so we can better read your mind and sell the results back to marketers. It's OK because Facebook already does this. We'd add all the other networks if they would just let us have their data too. And besides, we're doing this.
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Why the House spectrum auction proposal is the "worst telecom bill" -- A Q&A session with former Federal Communications Commission chairman Reed Hundt.
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 The future of easy home energy monitoring may be a little bit closer, thanks to a government initiative designed to allow consumers direct access to their energy consumption data.The White House's new Green Button gives utilities a way to simplify and standardize sharing usage statistics with their customers via a one-click download. Two California providers, Pacific Gas & Electric and San Diego Gas & Electric, already launched the feature, adding what is literally a green button to their websites. Utility companies in other regions are expected to implement it within the next year. Customers can click the button to download their personal usage information in one place.
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Whether you're looking for a way to catch the big game this weekend when you're away from your living room, or you just like to catch live TV when you're trapped somewhere without either cable or a television, you have plenty of options to help you catch a broadcast on your mobile phone or computer
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 In the wake of last week's fatal plane crash that took the life of its CEO, Micron Technology has appointed a successor, Mark Durcan. The former CTO has been with the company since 1984, and has -- per company bylaws -- been serving as interim chief since February 3rd. Robert Switz, the company's previous Board Director, will assume the duties of Board Chairman and Mark Adams, formerly the VP of Worldwide Sales, has been named as the company's President. In a press release announcing the appointments, the new CEO wrote that the company was "deeply saddened" to learn of the death of its top executive, and that the management team would work relentlessly to "continue to move the company forward."Continue reading Micron appoints Mark Durcan as new CEO Micron appoints Mark Durcan as new CEO originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink  Bloomberg | | Email this | Comments
    
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Need to take the edge off those winter blues? Perhaps Corning's, somewhat saccharine, vision of our technological future will be just the soporific tonic. Unsurprisingly, the Gorilla Glass maker sees a future where pretty much everything is a transparent touchscreen. While many of these ideas clearly appeal to our tech sensibilities, others are still very much high, high, up in the cloudy mists of concept land. Sure, a few of these ideas are starting to materialize back here in the present day, like large multi-touch panels, smart windows and of course communication displays, but for much of the rest, we'll just have to sit and wait. Or not.Corning looks to the future, mainly right through it (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink Android Community |  Corning | Email this | Comments
   
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Feb 5 - Paris is covered by snow, while the white stuff blankets Rome for the first time in almost three decades. Andrew Raven reports.   
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 As an investor, I’ve seen hundreds of mobile application pitches. And as a consumer, I’ve downloaded hundreds more – some out of curiosity and others in the hope that I’ll find something so useful and exciting that I’ll make room for it on my iPhone’s home screen.From both perspectives, I am rarely excited by download numbers. What gets my attention is engagement: how frequently an application is used and how engaged users are. This ultimately is the barometer for an application’s utility and/or strength of community. And if either of those two factors are strong: growth will certainly come. Just ask Instagram, Evernote, LogMeIn and others.
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