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Moon Express, currently a contender for Google’s $30 million Lunar Xprize, recently unveiled designs for the robotic spacecraft that could let them continue lunar exploration in the next decade. Dubbed the MX-1, company CEO Bob Richards is calling the coffee table-sized craft the “‘
Arma 3 developer Bohemia Interactive has announced Make Arma Not War, a contest that will reward top-tier mod projects from a pool of €500,000. The revealing post also notes that mod projects which “show a lot of potential” could result in a contract offer from Bohemia, regardless of the
Huawei filed a trademark for a “PhoPad” with the USPTO this week. There’s no guarantee that the manufacturer will come out with such a device — which, given the name, we’d expect to be similar in concept to the ASUS PadFone or FonePad , but who wouldn’t love to pi
Earlier this month, a user uploaded a video on YouTube showing his Galaxy S4 catching fire while charging. Since the unit was under warranty the owner could simply get it replaced from the company. However, in a follow-up video, the user shows viewers a letter he received from Samsung that demands t
NASA’s newest tiny, cheap “PhoneSat”, a super cheap satellite made out of off-the-shelf Android hardware, has dialed home from orbit, meaning all systems are go. The 2.2-pound satellite was built using a heavily-modified Samsung Nexus S and uses a two-way S-band radio so that engin
Atlas Box & Crating uses a smart LED lighting network from Digital Lumens to slash a million kilowatt-hours of consumption from its annual energy bill, and it’s just getting started. Most folks probably think that paying $600 to $900 per lighting fixture is overkill. I mean, it would take foreve
A new report is suggesting that Intel’s latest project involves developing a 15-core Ivytown processor. The processor will ship first to customers in the enterprise market, with high end servers and the like apt to be first in line for the new platform. Remember the peak of the megapixel war,
Whoops, I broke it again. When shopping for a new PC, laptop, or ultrabook, make sure you investigate the terms of your warranty and the optional accidental damage coverage policies available to you. Since initially writing about the subject of PC warranty repair and accidental damage coverageback i
C Spire, the regional wireless carrier with gigabit-sized dreams, has just announced that residents in nine Mississippi cities can now pre-register for its home fiber program. The southern US-based company recently revealed its plans to join Google, AT&T and others by taking a similar tack to Mo
Amazon drew a lot of attention to itself when it announced that it would be using drones to deliver packages sometime in the new future, but that’s not the half of it. Amazon is currently investing millions into designing various efficient robots that could replace human workers. Amazon got a
Consumers love purchasing items that are viewed as “premium” and Starbucks recently decided to exploit this tendency by releasing a limited production, laser-etched, $450 gift card. Only 5,000 were released but they were all sold in under six minutes for a total of $2.25 million worth of
Manufacturers will ship nearly 20 million touch-based laptops in 2013, or about 11% of all laptops shipped. This number has grown quickly over the past few years but touch-ready notebook are a tough sell for consumers nonetheless. Touch-ready notebook PCs will account for about 11 percent of all lap
