Father of China’s space tech program dies at 98 (AP)
AP - Qian Xuesen, a rocket scientist known as the father of China’s space technology program, died Saturday in Beijing, the official Xinhua News Agency said. He was 98.
AP - Qian Xuesen, a rocket scientist known as the father of China’s space technology program, died Saturday in Beijing, the official Xinhua News Agency said. He was 98.
A number of English vineyards have signed up to make use of a satellite imaging service to boost harvests.
The satellite measures a vineyard’s reflectivity in a number of colours in the visible and infrared.
The Oenoview system, first launched in France last year, analyses the images to determine vine leaf density, soil water content and [...]
For a couple years now, 150 inches has been as big as a television can get.
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This fast, furious, yet elegant racer is a feast for the eyes and a blast to play, even if you’re as bad at driving games as I am.
The latest airport security trend is the backscatter x-ray machine, touted as a powerful way to virtually frisk a traveler for contraband without the embarassment of a strip search. …
There may still be “a lot” of avatars wandering around the PS3’s virtual world, but according to at least one Sony exec, PlayStation Home (which is till in beta, by the way) simply “isn’t a priority right now.”
AP - NASA says two of three parachutes malfunctioned in the test flight of a prototype moon rocket earlier this week.
HELSINKI, Oct 30 - Nokia said on Friday it would during next year close down it battered gaming service N-Gage.
Fallout 3 scoops ultimate game of the year at the Golden Joysticks, with Call of Duty also taking home a trio of awards.
Hundreds of people were left without their landline phone service for nearly 48 hours after thieves stole 1km (0.6 mile) of copper cabling.
Sussex Police said the underground cable was cut and removed from the area near Drusilla’s roundabout in Alfriston in the early hours of Wednesday.
BT said telephone services to up 800 homes and [...]