10 Tech Things You Need To Know This Morning
You're half way through the work week! Here's some tech news to rejuvenate you.Twitter made a major product update that puts Direct Messages (DMs) front and center on its mobile app.DMs also support...
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TGIF! Here's some tech news to send you into the weekend.Facebook announced a new messaging feature, Instagram Direct, yesterday. It's a way to send (permanent) video or photo messages to a select...
View ArticleThis New Form-Fitting Spacesuit Could Revolutionize How Astronauts Move In Space
Spacesuits are sometimes called the world's smallest spacecraft, but they are anything but small for the astronauts wearing them.MIT Aeronautics researcher Dava Newman has been working for more than a...
View ArticleHere's What Elon Musk Thinks About The Space Projects Of Jeff Bezos And...
Click for sound.<div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div> Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, explains how he feels about competition with the founders of Amazon and The Virgin Group in...
View ArticleRetired Astronaut: Humans Will Live On The Moon Within 40 Years
Retired astronaut Chris Hadfield has predicted that humans will have a colony on the moon within the next 30 to 40 years and establish a base on Mars within the next 70, Sarah Knapton from The...
View ArticleCuriosity's Wheels Look Like They Are Falling Apart
The Curiosity rover has only driven about three miles after more than a year on Mars, but her thin aluminum wheels already appear to be feeling the pain.After completing a software upgrade on the...
View ArticleNASA Engineer: We Didn't Expect To Face Such Rough Terrain On Mars, And Now...
Slow and steady is the prescribed pace for the Curiosity rover, especially after recent photos showed a growing number of dents, scratches, and punctures on the car-size robot's wheels.The rate of...
View ArticleELON MUSK: Here's How We Can Fix Mars And Colonize It
Please enable Javascript to watch this video SpaceX CEO Elon Musk explains how Mars can become a livable planet and help ensure the future of our species.Produced by Kamelia Angelova, Alana Kakoyiannis...
View ArticleHere's How Elon Musk Planned To Revive NASA
Please enable Javascript to watch this video Before launching SpaceX, Elon Musk was working on a philanthropic project about sending a greenhouse to Mars, and potentially laying the groundwork for...
View ArticleA 60-Year-Old Ex-Pilot Explains Why He's Ready To Die On Mars
Before the new year, more than 1,000 aspiring astronauts received an email with good news: They had beat out more than 200,000 people who applied for a one-way trip to Mars.The Mars One mission plans...
View ArticleA One-Way Trip To Mars Is Destroying This Man's Marriage
Ken Sullivan, a 38-year-old medevac pilot living in Utah, is delighted to have been selected as a finalist for a one-way trip to Mars.The one person who's not so jazzed?Sullivan's wife, Becky, whom the...
View ArticleScientists Are Mystified By A 'Jelly-Doughnut' Rock That Suddenly Appeared...
A rock that suddenly appeared next to the Mars Opportunity rover and resembles the shape and size of a jelly doughnut has completely baffled scientists.The unusual find was announced at a NASA event on...
View ArticleWhy This Mars Rover Has Lasted 3,560 Days Longer Than Expected
The mission wasn't supposed to last more than 90 days. But 10 years later, NASA's Opportunity rover is still in working condition and continues to send back data from Mars.The prolonged health of the...
View ArticleThe Opportunity Rover Looks Nearly Unrecognizable After 10 Years On Mars
The Opportunity rover recently celebrated 10 years on Mars, even though the mission was only planned for three months. Engineers thought the rover would conk out much sooner, in part because they...
View ArticleNASA Is Being Sued Over ‘Jelly Doughnut’ Rock On Mars — Here's Their Response
Earlier this week, we reported that NASA was being sued. The allegations? That the space agency had failed to conduct a proper examination of "life" on Mars, which had mysteriously appeared in front of...
View ArticleSee What Happens When The Yellow M&M Meets The Russian Mafia
The Mars Co. once again threatened the life of one of its the M&M's in the company's latest Super Bowl ad, this time via the Russian mob.The ad has a cinematic beginning, and a blink-or-you'll miss...
View ArticleThe Hardest Part About Living On A Mars Simulator Is Dealing With Other People
Ashley Dale is a Ph.D. candidate in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Bristol.According to Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal, establishing a permanent presence beyond Earth is the first step...
View ArticleNASA Has Determined Where The Mysterious Jelly-Doughnut Rock On Mars Came From
Scientists have confirmed that a strange-looking Mars rock, called "Pinnacle Island," that suddenly and inexplicably popped up in a photograph taken by the Opportunity rover came from a larger piece of...
View ArticleThis Woman Would Leave Her Fiance For A One-Way Trip To Mars
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — They could be the ultimate star-crossed lovers.A Brooklyn resident is willing to say goodbye forever to Earth — and her fiancé — so she can be part of an elite crew of...
View ArticleResearchers Pinpoint Exactly Where On The Red Planet Martian Meteorites Came...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - About 5 million years ago, an asteroid or comet slammed into Mars so hard that rocks and other debris launched into space.After traveling millions of years, some...
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