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Curiosity Rover Bound for MarsThe newest of NASA's Mars rovers is set to launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Saturday (November 26) and reach the Red Planet in August 2012. It's calle...
PETA slams Mario over use of a fur suit | Games Blog
Read 'PETA slams Mario over use of a fur suit' from our blog Games Blog on Yahoo! News. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals might be barking up the wrong mushroom. On Monday, the controversial organization issued a press release attacking icon
Russia's Mars craft off courseA Russian spacecraft bound for one of Mars' moons has gone off course after reaching Earth orbit, the Russian space agency has said. The unmanned Phobos-Grun...
7 gadgets that won't be around in 2020
As tempting as it may be to imagine otherwise, some of the gadgets you may rely on most right now will likely suffer the same fate and be killed off or made obsolete by the end of this decad
Software aims to stop whale crashes
Researchers at the University of Montreal have modeled the routes of both whales and boats in the St. Lawrence Estuary to prevent a collision course between the two — an encounter that often proves fatal for the marine mammals, many of which are endangere
Busted satellite causes communications issues
MONTREAL — Many Canadians, especially those in remote areas of the Far North, lost all communications Thursday after Telesat's powerful Anik F2 satellite suddenly ceased operating.
Boeing to deliver 1st 787 after years of delays
SEATTLE — Boeing delivers its first 787 jet Sunday. It's been a long time coming. The new jet, which was supposed to be flying passengers three years ago, has been delayed by production and design problems. But now it's here, and airlines expect it to off
Online banking encryption broken
Security researchers have developed a potential cyber attack that could decrypt secure communications used by online banking and payment sites.
Google's YouTube Movies comes to Canada
Just one day after Blockbuster Canada announced it's closing its remaining movie rental outlets, Google quietly launched a Canadian version of YouTube Movies, its popular online movie rental service
NASA probe to asteroid begins collecting data
The NASA probe made its first detailed observations of the surface Thursday from a distance of 2,735 kilometres and will spend the next several weeks taking images from that altitude. Afterward, it will spiral closer to the asteroid to get a better view.
400 hidden cameras show Earth's real wild side
They are the hidden family portraits of Earth's most remote jungles finally revealed: A touching snapshot of an endangered female mountain gorilla carrying an infant on her back. A giant anteater sticking its enormous snout practically in the viewer's fac
Hacker Group Anonymous Vows To Destroy Facebook On November 5Hacktivist group Anonymous, which has been responsible for cyber-attacks on the Pentagon, News Corp, and others, has vowed to destroy Facebook on November 5th (which should ring a bell).
Citing privacy concerns and the difficulty involved in deleting a
Touch-screen BlackBerrys to go on sale in August
Research In Motion Ltd. (TSX:RIM) on Wednesday unveiled five new BlackBerry phones with touch screens, as it hopes to revive the line's dwindling appeal in the face of competition from the iPhone and Android smartphones.
Russians to Sink International Space Station in Pacific Ocean
Russian officials are calling for calm saying that the sinking of the International Space Station (ISS) in the Pacific Ocean is not a big deal, and that it would not happen anytime soon. After startling some members of the public with statements made earl
Entire Apple stores being faked in China
BEIJING — It looks almost exactly like a sleek Apple store. Sales assistants in blue T-shirts with the company's logo chat with customers. Signs advertising the iPad 2 hang on the white walls. Outside, the famous logo sits next to the words "Apple Store"
Russian Hubble 1,000 times sharperA rocket carrying a telescope which will be the most powerful in space has been launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Scientists have already nicknamed the Zenit-3SB the "green" rocket because it uses kerosene and oxygen as its fuel and is
Shaw launches Netflix rival, angers UBB criticsShaw Communications Inc. has revealed plans to launch an online movie streaming service to compete against Netflix Inc. that threatens to put the Calgary-based cable giant at the centre of the net neutrality debate in Canada.
Internet names to expand far beyond dot-com
Internet minders voted Monday to allow virtually unlimited new domain names based on themes as varied as company brands, entertainment and political causes, in the system's biggest shake-up since it started 26 years ago.
Memory's next big leap: solid-state drivesWhen people think of disk drives, it’s only natural that the traditional spinning platters come to mind. These mechanical beasts, often with huge capacities, grace most of today’s computers.
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