Rosetta desperately signaling Philae lander for signs of life
The Rosetta spacecraft has seven more days of sending signals to the Philae robot lander to determine whether it is still alive. After March...
Microsoft making Cortana available for Android and Apple devices
Microsoft is working on an advanced version of its "personal assistant", known as Cortana, using research from an artificial intelligence project called "Einstein."
Windows phones have...
Facebook acquires shopping search engine TheFind
Facebook has acquired the personalized shopping search engine TheFind as part of an effort to improve its commerce ads.
The terms of the deal were...
Google launches official online store
Apple watch out, yesterday the Google Store was launched.
People can now browse the user-friendly, intuitive online shop for Google devices and accessories or simply...
Massive underwater volcano spewing pumice on Australian and New Zealand beaches
An international team of scientists is about to board a ship carrying two underwater robots called ‘Sentry’ and ‘Jason’ to learn more about a...
UK industrial output unexpectedly dropped in January
British industrial output dropped by a monthly 0.1 percent in January, according to official figures.
The drop was largely due to underperforming information technology and...
Massive solar flare filmed by Nasa’s Solar Dynamics Observatory
This year’s most massive solar flare so far, with the equivalent energy of 100 megaton atomic bombs, was captured on video by NASA’s Solar...
NASA launches 4 spacecraft to study Earth’s and Sun’s magnetic field interactions
At 10:44 EDT on Thursday, NASA launched four Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft to study a phenomenon called magnetic reconnection – a process thought to trigger...
Large Hadron Collider, now a much mightier beast, soon to wake up again
The Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful particle accelerator ever built, is now 65% more powerful than it was two years ago, and will be...
Rosetta’s Philae lander may wake up, say European Space Agency scientists
The Philae lander, which has been in hibernation on the dark side of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, has not had enough juice in its solar-powered batteries...