Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Curiosity seek traces of extraterrestrial life: "We put wheels on Mars, my God!"

  The Curiosity robot landed on Mars on Monday to make an ambitious mission to detect any traces of extraterrestrial life, said the U.S. Space Agency (NASA) in Pasadena (California). "Arrival confirmed," said the 05H31 GMT a member of mission control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of NASA, triggering a burst of celebrations. "We put wheels on Mars. My God, "he added, after receiving the first signals that the vehicle,...

Curiosity will send data from the first moment after undergoing evaluation

  After the explosion of joy experienced by the success of the descent of Curiosity Mars, begins checking all systems in the browser, which from the outset will begin sending data daily from the red planet. "You take things with a lot of patience because you have to be completely sure that the environment is suitable and there is no risk to the rover. Start checking after the first data taking, "said Felipe Gomez, one of Spanish...

Curiosity can take pictures, smell, taste and pierce the Martian soil

The browser Curiosity has equipment to take pictures, smell, taste and even a laser to drill the soil of Mars, where he arrived in the early hours of Monday.  The robot explore the environment to determine if the giant crater where it fell was once a habitable environment for microbial life. The globetrotting six nuclear-powered wheels and includes a technology far more advanced than any other device that has landed on Mars....

How to hack Apple helped icloud account of a journalist

Mat Honan, a reporter for Wired magazine, has been involved in an unfortunate situation. A hacker entered its icloud account and from there changed the account password and the email of your Gmail and Mac Ten minutes later the attacker remotely erased iPhone content of the reporter, after all he had on your iPhone and then all of your MacBook Air. All this happened because of a blunder from Apple. Mediated only fifteen minutes from the entrance...

First Nokia Phone with Windows 8 would be presented in September

Nokia continues to seek a foothold in a market of smartphones that have been planted harsh rivalries. The focus of the Finnish corporation for Windows Phone is still standing, which is why we would soon see a new smartphone with Microsoft software. According to information published on the web, Nokia would release a phone with WP8 in September. The event would be scheduled for Nokia World, the traditional annual conference organized by...

WhatsApp for Windows Phone 8 appears in pictures

The popular application for Windows Phone WhatsApp suffer a "small" change to adapt to the new features in the latest version, Windows Phone Apollo 8. This is evidenced by the images found on the page official instant messaging service. The fact disappear Marketplace has meant that users were more attentive to developments that may occur on the official website of the application. Although the application still does not appear in the...

The second day of Curiosity Mars goes perfectly

The second day on Mars went smoothly for Curiosity, vehicle NASA's robotic Mars arrived on Monday, said Wednesday the space agency, adding that all antennas, communication channels and the electric generator work well. "We now have confirmation that all antennas and communication channels of the robot work perfectly," said Jennifer Trosper, one of the managers of the mission, in a press conference at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in...

IPhone thickness of 7.6 mm

Everything is then ready for the presentation of the next version of Apple's smartphone, iPhone 5, apparently with an event would be held this September 12. However, rumors about the product not stop spinning in cyberspace, and is now believed that the thickness of 7.6 mm would be 18% thinner than the S4 model. According to the known site Apple.pro, the motive for the Cupertino suffer this variation due to its new type of display...