By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer – 45 mins ago
WASHINGTON – Take that, moon!
NASA bulldozed two spacecraft into the lunar south pole Friday morning in a search for hidden ice. Instruments confirm that a large empty rocket hull barreled into the moon at 7:31 a.m., followed four minutes later by a probe with cameras taking pictures of the first crash.
But the big [...]
Rory Cellan-Jones meets the man in Mombasa who oversees the Seacom cable bringing fast internet from Asia to Africa.
By Adam Blenford
BBC News, Nairobi
A new high-speed undersea cable connecting East Africa with the rest of the world is poised to go live, Kenya’s top internet official has told [...]
Yahoo, the US internet company, says it has signed a deal to buy Maktoob, the largest web portal in the Middle East.
The purchase will expand Yahoo’s reach to millions of consumers across the Arab world.
The acquisition on Tuesday marks the first major buy by a US portal company in the Arab region.
The acquisition, the terms of which were [...]
Video game developers from Iran have been exhibiting at a Western game convention for the very first time.
Representatives from the trade body, the Iran National Foundation of Computer Games, were on hand at a dedicated stand at Gamescom in Cologne.
They were there to showcase the latest games developed in Iran, establish contacts, and to see [...]
Even though virtually unknown in the US or Europe, Sony’s Felica technology, mainly materialized in the form of a contactless RFID smart card or a chip built into cell phones), is used for electronic payment by millions of people on a daily basis. Now users in Japan (one of the main markets apart from Hong [...]
(CBS) Tokyo, August 18, 2009 – Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCE) today unveiled the new PlayStation 3 (CECH-2000A) computer entertainment system, featuring an extremely streamlined form factor with a 120GB Hard Disk Drive (HDD). The new PlayStation 3 (PS3) system will become available in stores from September 1, 2009, in North America, Europe/ [...]
The following is a lecture by Seyyid Hossein Nasr entitled, “Islam and Modern Science”, which was co-sponsored by the Pakistan Study Group, the MIT Muslim Students Association and other groups. Professor Nasr, currently University Professor of Islamic Studies at Georgetown University, is a physics and mathematics alumnus of MIT. He received a PhD in the [...]
Islam and the forefront of technology are not typically thought of together. Friday sermons and religious classes might drop hints of social networks or smartphones; however, the content is not tech-centric. Conversations might walk down Nostalgia Lane to reminisce about the wonder years of technological advancements in past eras of Islamic history. Yet not much [...]
Today, Microsoft publicly unveiled its soon-to-launch search engine Bing. It will become available over the next few days, and be fully launched by June 3. On the surface, Bing has a distinct gloss. The home page features a rotation of stunning photography, for instance, which can be clicked on to produce related image search results. [...]
SIRTE, Libya — After bitter wrangling, Africa’s leaders agreed Friday to denounce the International Criminal Court and refuse to extradite Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir, who has been indicted for crimes against humanity in Darfur.
The decision at the African Union summit says AU members “shall not cooperate” with the court in The Hague “in the [...]