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The team designing the parachute system for NASA’s Orion spacecraft has demonstrated almost every parachute failure they could imagine. But on April 23, they tested how the system would perform if the failure wasn’t in the parachutes. Orion is the safest spacecraft ever built to carry humans, and it
Huawei Ascend P7 is probably one of the worst kept secrets in the industry. It has leaked numerous times before in lots of live pictures, renders, certification authorities, benchmarks. Yesterday the famous @evleaks tipster also confirmed its specs, but with a twist. He says the Ascend P7 will indee
With each successive round of gaming consoles, developers get a little more inventive with the available technology. The same goes for how they tease their audience ahead of a game’s launch. Turtle Rock Studios, the team behind Left 4 Dead, recently released an interactive trailer for its upco
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new and unconventional battery chemistry aimed at producing batteries that last longer than previously thought possible. In a study published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, ORNL researchers cha
The ‘Power Suit’, tailored by M.J. Bale and powered by Heritage Bank‘s cutting-edge payment technology, enables the wearer to purchase items at any Visa payWave terminal simply by swiping their sleeve. Made from the finest Australian merino wool, the suit features a contactless payment chip and ante
It will be a profound irony if NASA’s lasting value will be to document from space the planet’s decline. Case in point: the agency released today a scientific visualization video showing the transition of the entire African rainforest in the Congo from green to a drought-stricken brown. The visualiz
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said he doesn’t believe AT&T will sit out of the agency’s highly anticipated airwaves auction next year. He pointed to AT&T’s past insistence that it needs more airwaves for its growing mobile business. “I have a hard time envisioning this once-in-a-lifet
Xiaomi is a Chinese smartphone manufacturer that has experienced significant growth on its home turf in the four years it has been around. It is often referred to as the Apple of China, due to its meteoric rise in one of the most competitive markets on the planet. Its smartphones have actually been
Non-HBO subscribers will soon be able to watch some of the network’s old TV shows, like “The Sopranos” and “The Wire,” on Amazon Prime’s streaming video service. Amazon described the deal as a first for HBO, which has a reputation for being tightfisted with its li
The Federal Communication Commission’s proposal for new net neutrality rules will allow internet service providers to charge companies for preferential treatment, effectively undermining the concept of net neutrality. The rules will reportedly allow providers to charge companies for preferenti
There are several tablet options available in the market that offer high resolution displays. The iPad Air has a 2,048×1,536 pixel resolution display and Google’s Nexus 10 ups that with a 2,560×1,600 panel. What about 4K though? It may be off in the future but its certainly not impossible. Japan Dis
A Howard County cyber security firm has raised $3.5 million in equity financing to build out its marketing and sales team. HackSurfer, which was founded in 2012, recently put its first product on the market — a social media-like cyber security product that lets companies know who’s being hacked. Hac
