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Quite a few people at NASA breathed a heavy sigh of relief this week after learning that space telescope Kepler is once again able to resume finding new planets outside our own solar system. The Keplar space telescope is a $600 million project that’s responsible for discovering 132 exoplanets and 2,
Klout is moving beyond scoring your influence to helping you generate original content. Sanjay Desai, Klout’s Chief Product Officer, told The Next Web that four tags that will be displayed to highlight fresh content. Klout has also added a Create section, which is similar to a news feed, a thumbs up
The ECS-12 certainly isn’t the most technologically advanced device in NERF’s arsenal, and it’s not even the first blaster to let you record your shootouts. But, it is the first NERF gun with the camera built in. Until now you’ve had to purchase an optional Rail Mount accesso
The NSA’s phone monitoring and collection policies might not be quite as widespread as previously thought, if new reports in the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post are to be believed. According to their sources, 20-30 percent of call metadata is logged, and the majority of mobile phones are
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court approved two proposals from President Obama to reform surveillance programs. The National Security Agency will now be allowed to query the telephony metadata it collects only following a court finding that reasonable, articulable suspicion exists that
The Mozilla Foundation has taken a further step into the world of online services with the introduction of Firefox Accounts. “While we’ve worked to offer services that deliver value and put users and developers in control of their Web experiences, we’ve never had a simple way for y
If there’s one thing that Indians have become increasingly paranoid about these days, it is the spectre of Chinese companies sneaking in malware and spying technology into telecom equipment and other hardware that they sell to Indians. So, this neuroses is not going to be helped any by recent
Archaeologists have discovered some of the oldest human footprints in the world during a dig on a beach on the Norfolk coast. The prints, thought to be more than 900,000 years old, were found in silt on the beach at Happisburgh. Scientists believe the prints, which were probably made by five differe
According to sources familiar with the matter, IBM is pondering a sale of its semiconductor manufacturing facilities and business. The poorly performing unit makes chips for IBM’s own servers, as well as a limited amount of chips for other companies, with the major consumer of the chips is Nin
Mobile wait listing service for restaurants, NoWait, is now expanding the rollout of its consumer-facing mobile app to reach diners nationwide, the company says. The app shows you a list of nearby restaurants, wait times, and distances, and lets you join wait lists from your phone. It first arrived
The Department of Justice has closed its investigation of Samsung over claims that the company used its patent portfolio to exclude Apple products from the U.S. market. The Department was investigating whether Samsung was inappropriately using its Standard Essential Patents to keep Apple products fr
Less talking and more doing. That’s what officials from international technology company Mozilla promised Thursday as the company launched a $150,000 fund to figure out ways to practically apply Chattanooga’s gigabit Internet to solve real, local problems. The Mozilla Gigabit Commun
