Category: Science / Technology

SpaceX launches 10 satellites aboard Falcon 9 rocket

SpaceX Falcon rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, U.S., January 14, 2017. REUTERS/Gene Blevins A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 10 satellites was launched into orbit Saturday morning and landed its first-stage booster on a drone ship in its first launch since a September explosion.

Panasonic demonstrates the Autonomous Delivery Robot at Narita Airport and Hotel.

Panasonic Corporation will begin its demonstration experiments with the Autonomous Delivery Robot, ‘HOSPI ,’ from mid-January 2017 in cooperation with the Narita International Airport Corporation and the ANA Crowne Plaza Narita. Based on preprogrammed map information and using high performance sensors and advanced collision-avoidance algorithm, the robot can move about while staying aware of its surroundings, enabling it to deliver items safely and efficiently without colliding into passersby or various objects along its route.

SpaceX Returns to Flight With Successful Falcon 9 Launch

SpaceX ‘s Falcon 9 returned to flight, launching successfully from Vandenburg Air Force Base in California today, just four and a half months after a fiery explosion destroyed Facebook’s AMOS-6 satellite. An investigation conducted by SpaceX concluded that the September 1 explosion was likely caused by a failure of a pressurized second-stage tank.

SpaceX launches first rocket since explosion in Florida

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from California on Saturday and placed a constellation of satellites in orbit, marking the company’s first launch since a fireball engulfed a similar rocket on a Florida launch pad more than four months ago. The two-stage rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 9:54 a.m. carrying a payload for Iridium Communications Inc., which is replacing its entire global network with 70 next-generation satellites.

giveaway: MikroTik RB3011UiAS-RM router

The MikroTik RouterBOARD RB3011 is a new multi port device, running an ARM architecture CPU for higher performance. The RB3011 has ten Gigabit ports divided in two switch groups, an SFP cage and a Superspeed full size USB 3.0 port, for adding storage or an external 3G/4G modem.

Hidden figures: What Trump’s AG pick Jeff Sessions wants to keep in the shadows

As the Senate hearings for Jeff Sessions’ nomination as attorney general ran into their second day, I kept thinking about the movie “Hidden Figures,” which my wife Judith and I saw three days earlier. The film is based on a book by Margot Lee Shetterly about three African-American women in the early 1960s who lived in the segregated South while working on NASA’s first manned space missions.

.com | SpaceX launches, lands rocket for first time since Sept blast

SpaceX blasted off its Falcon 9 rocket on Saturday, marking its first return to flight since a costly and complicated launchpad explosion in September. “Liftoff of the Falcon 9,” a SpaceX commentator said as the tall white rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 09:54 , carrying a payload of 10 satellites for Iridium, a mobile and data communications company.

Dorrance dances the night away at Emerson/Cutler Majestic Theatre

With tap dancer extraordinaire Michelle Dorrance, everything old seems new – really new – again. In her company’s program over the weekend, presented by World Music/CRASHarts at the Emerson/Cutler Majestic Theatre, Dorrance created the first half’s “SOUNDspace” in 2012-13 as she was considering her “influences, lineage, legacy.”

SpaceX Launches First Rocket Since Explosion

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from California on Saturday and placed a constellation of satellites in orbit, marking the company’s first launch since a fireball engulfed a similar rocket on a Florida launch pad more than four months ago. The two-stage rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 9:54 a.m. carrying a payload for Iridium Communications Inc., which is replacing its entire global network with 70 next-generation satellites.

Way found to reprogram mouse embryonic stem cells

This undated photo provided by animal clone scientist Zhou Qi of the Institute of Zoology in Beijing shows the mouse Xiao Xiao or “Tiny” from the induced pluripotent stem cells in its three-month old. Two teams of Chinese researchers have created live mice from IPS cells, answering a lingering question about the developmental potential of the cells, according to a press release published online by Nature on July 23, 2009.

Computer rebooting while playing games.6

Hello so i got brought a new computer for Christmas and since having it have encountered an error with the system each time i play a game either 1 min or 10 mins into playing the system reboots itself. so i contacted the seller and they said it would be a faulty gpu which seemed strange to me.

HTTPolice 0.4.0

As a command-line tool, it can read HAR files or raw HTTP/1.x TCP streams. It can integrate with mitmproxy for TLS-encrypted and HTTP/2 traffic.

Check out these virtual reality displays at the Detroit auto show

Automakers are going all out to show off new mobility and autonomous driving technologies all over the showroom at the North American International Show in Detroit. So, while vehicle unveilings were winding down this week, reporters Benjamin Raven and Matt Durr set out to experience all the virtual reality systems and driving simulators on display.

Three ways to die on Venus, and other space facts

Today we call it the “Big Dipper,” but in the year 75000, we may look up in the night sky and admire a constellation known affectionately as the “Big Spatula.” As astronomer Dean Regas explains, that’s because the stars are moving relative to our position here.

Dracut schools hacked

The personal information — including Social Security numbers — of current and former Dracut Public Schools employees has been stolen in a cyberattack, according to Superintendent Steven Stone. The district confirmed on Friday that an employee fell for a sophisticated phishing scheme that allowed the perpetrators of the attack access to the information.

SpaceX counts down to first launch after rocket explosion

Accident investigators determined that a canister of helium burst inside the rocket’s second-stage liquid oxygen tank, triggering the explosion. SpaceX plans to blast off a rocket on Saturday for the first time since a launch pad explosion in the fall sidetracked the ambitious flight plans of company founder and entrepreneur Elon Musk.

Amazon DISRESPECTS again: Sells slippers with Mahatma Gandhi’s face on them

After selling doormats with the Indian flag print, Amazon has landed in trouble again by selling slippers with Mahatma Gandhi’s face printed on them. After being caught in the eye of the storm for its doormat with the Indian National flag printed on it, global e-commerce retailer Amazon abased itself again by disparagingly selling slippers with Mahatma Gandhi’s face printed on them.

Can you even find this puzzle?

Steganography is the hiding of messages in innocuous-seeming communication – such as e-mail messages or images – so that nobody except the writer and the intended receiver knows that there is a hidden message, let alone its contents. The term was coined in 1499, in “Steganographia,” a treatise on cryptography and steganography which was, appropriately, disguised as a book on magic.

SpaceX Accident Cost it Hundreds of Millions

Elon Musk’s SpaceX lost more than a quarter of a billion dollars in 2015 after a botched cargo run to the International Space Station and the subsequent grounding of its Falcon 9 rocket fleet, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. From a report: The accident derailed SpaceX’s expectations of $1.8 billion in launch revenue in 2016, an analysis of the privately held firm’s financial documents showed, according to the Journal, which said it had obtained the documents.