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CNET News  May 16 13 :

Enormous asteroid to zip by Earth -

A giant space rock plans on making an appearance in our stellar neighborhood, but it's not as bad as you might think.
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CrunchGear  May 16 13 :

Leap Motion Talks New Beta, We Go Hands On With Motion-Controlled Google Earth -

Leap Motion was showing off its still unreleased gesture motion controller for computers at Google I/O 2013.
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GigaOm  May 16 13 :

ViaSat taps Boeing to build new super-satellite scheduled for launch in 2016 -

ViaSat-1 went up about 18 months ago, but the satellite broadband company is already planning its next-generation bird, ViaSat-2.
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All Things Digital  May 16 13 :

NASA Telescope Imperiled by Glitch -

Space engineers are struggling to regain control of the Kepler space telescope, which has lost its ability to aim accurately at the star systems it has been scanning for planets similar to Earth, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said Wednesday.
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CNET News  May 08 13 :

Relive Earth's wild history of meteor strikes -

In the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's a meteor! This nifty graph lets you explore confirmed meteor strikes on Earth.
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GigaOm  May 07 13 :

Nest acquires MyEnergy (formerly Earth Aid), moves deeper into utility data -

Learning thermostat maker Nest has acquired a Boston-based energy data startup called MyEnergy. The company will help Nest develop its energy data services and continue its missions of working directly with the consumer to reduce home energy consumption.
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Geek Sugar  Apr 20 13 :

5 Apps to Get Gardening This Weekend -

When April showers aren't prepping May flowers, we can be found in the backyard flexing our green thumbs.
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DailyWireless  Apr 12 13 :

RadarSat Dead, Solar Storm Erupts -

Canada’s Radarsat 1 satellite stopped communicating with Earth in late March, and officials fear the satellite may be lost for good, the Canadian Space Agency announced Tuesday.
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Engadget  Mar 25 13 :

Quadrocopter fleet stuns Londoners with giant hovering Star Trek logo (video) -

Before quadrocopters become Skynet's roaming recon fleet, they'll begrudgingly entertain us, and in a recent promotional enterprise, a swarm braved the London "spring" to remind us of the imminent launch of Star Trek: Into Darkness.
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CNET News  Mar 24 13 :

LED quadrotors form 'Star Trek' logo over London -

30 micro UAVs flying in Star Fleet formation take the city "Into Darkness" to mark Earth Hour. [Read more]
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SlashGear  Mar 18 13 :

Majority of the world’s gold deposits formed by earthquakes -

It’s always interesting to learn how certain rocks are formed, and gold is one of those elements that is so precious and rare, yet very few people have any idea on how it’s formed in the Earth.
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Engadget  Mar 16 13 :

Visualized: Engadget Expand's pier of arcade -

There are very few things on this Earth that can make a view of the San Francisco Bay even more gorgeous than it already is, and a pier with 67 arcade games lined up side-by-side certainly qualifies as one of them.
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IntoMobile  Mar 01 13 :

Battery warnings the way they should be -

Battery warnings rank right up there as some of the most boring dialogs on earth. How many times have you seen the “20% of battery remaining” alert and just mindlessly tapped it away? Spotted by Gizmodo, College Humor has a great clip showing battery warnings that’ll force you to take notice of the fact that your phone is about ready to die.
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DailyWireless  Feb 26 13 :

Surrey Satellite Launches Smartphone in Space -

The Strand-1 micro-satellite (FAQ), controlled by an on-board Google Nexus phone, has been launched into orbit from India by a team of researchers from the University of Surrey.
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NASA Launches Live Google Hangout With Astronauts In Space -

NASA is leveraging Google's Hangout system to pitch questions from the public to astronauts on the ground--and in space.
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DotGizmo  Feb 15 13 :

Asteroid 2012 DA14 will Pass Earth Record-Breaking Close -

Earlier we reported about the meteorite explosion in Russia, but there is another event going on that is hopefully less scary.
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Mashable  Feb 14 13 :

5 Surprising Facts About Friday’s Asteroid Flyby -

While there is no chance that asteroid 2012 DA14 will hit Earth on Feb. 15, the asteroid's flyby is history-making for several other reasons.
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Electronista  Feb 12 13 :

Review: House of Marley Riddim On-Ear Headphones -

House of Marley is a fairly new entrant in the headphone market, arriving in late 2011 among a host of other celebrity branded headphones.
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CNET News  Feb 10 13 :

Did Google Earth error send murderer to wrong address? -

Dennis and Merna Koula were found dead in 2010. Their son was found guilty of murder. Yet the killing looked like a professional hit.
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Gizmodo US  Feb 05 13 :

Who the Hell Can Understand the Voyager Disc's User Manual? -

In a very distant future an alien spaceship will come across one of the Voyager spacecrafts.
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