NASA scientists have discovered that one of the closest solar systems to ours shows some very striking resemlblances to how are solar system looked when it was a lot younger. The star at the center of the nearby system, called Epsilon Eridani, is a younger, slightly cooler and fainter version of the sun. Previously, astronomers had [...]
BMW is looking pioneer a move away from proprietary systems used for in-car entertainment systems, allowing developers to build plug and play applications especially for their cars. This could be extremely good news for the open source community and another ‘notch in the bed post’ in the fight against closed source systems. When a manufacturer or [...]
Quote Give your friends and family the gift of a safer Internet: OpenDNS. It’s free and requires nothing to download or install. Read more at the OpenDNS Blog I have been using OpenDNS for around 8 months now and I am definately impressed!. I have a Be Internet connection which is lovely and fast, but even then I [...]
In 1981 the BBC started the BBC Computer Literacy Project, and needed a computer to front the project with, and approached some of the computer makers of the time, Sinclair, Dragon and Acorn. Acorn stood up to the challenge and put forward their Proton Computer which the BBC re branded as the BBC Microcomputer and handed [...]
Original Post on Universe Today This is an absolutely fantastic photo, the earth and moon are being viewed from Mars at an angle 90 degrees to the earth from the Sun. You can quite clearly see the Pacific coast of South America and the bulk of North America above it. The detail in the clouds is [...]
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