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Wednesday 29 January 2014

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Scientists Turned Fruit Flies Into Glowing Cancer Detectors

Porsche's first car is 116 years old, and it's electric



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Facebook's mobile ads now account for over half of its revenue thanks to 945 million monthly users



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Lenovo buying Motorola's handset business from Google for nearly $3 billion (update: confirmed)



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Reported Google deal could see Samsung deliver cleaner Android, less bloat



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HDTV deals of the week: 01.29.14



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HTC to deliver KitKat to One owners a couple weeks late (updated)



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Dell's new Android HDMI dongle turns screens into virtualized desktop computers for $130



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Sabertron: a foam lightsaber game that finally proves who's got the most midi-chlorians



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Apple rolls out iOS 7.0.5 to iPhone 5s and 5c in China, promises network fixes



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Google's partnering with Samsung and others for new educational devices this spring



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Twitter tool tells journalists what's BREAKING!



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Twitter is making searches easier with filters for news, videos and more



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Switched On: The next steps for digital wellness, part two



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Researchers create 'programmable' stem cells through stress



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Evernote Now Syncs 4 Times Faster



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Victim of Epic Hack Points Finger at GoDaddy and PayPal



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Lenovo Buys Google's Motorola Unit for $2.9 Billion



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Rest in Peace, iPod



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It's Official: Google Is Selling Motorola To Lenovo

$14,500 Cabinet Contains Everything You Need To Survive the Apocalypse

Sneaky "Honey Encryption" Stops Hackers By Drowning Them in Phony Data

La historia (hasta ahora) de la nave tripulada Dream Chaser en dos minutos y medio


Dentro del programa de desarrollo de naves espaciales tripuladas por parte de empresas privadas que está teniendo lugar en los Estados Unidos la única que realmente parece una nave espacial tripulada es la Dream Chaser de Sierra Nevada Corporation.


Se basa en estudios aerodinámicos llevados a cabo en la década de los 60 del siglo XX sobre cuerpos sustentadores, de tal forma que no han tenido que reinventar la pólvora del todo.


Igual que los transbordadores espaciales de antaño la Dream Chaser despegará en vertical, lanzada por un cohete Atlas V, y aterrizará como un avión.


Impresión artística del lanzamiento de una DreamChaser

Impresión artística del lanzamiento de una DreamChaser


Eso sí, la Dream Chaser es mucho más pequeña y tiene mucha menos capacidad de carga que un transbordador espacial; de hecho cabrían un par de Dream Chaser en la bodega de carga de un transbordador espacial.


Después de varios vuelos cautivos y uno libre que acabó con la nave revolcándose por la pista por un fallo de la pata delantera del tren de aterrizaje SNC ha anunciado que espera lanzar la primera Dream Chaser al espacio en 2016 , en una mision no tripulada.


Si todo va bien será en 2017 cuando dos astronautas la lleven al espacio, y a partir de ahí podría entrar en servicio rápidamente para llevar hasta a siete tripulantes a la Estación Espacial Internacional, aunque lo más probable es que combinen carga y tripulantes.


Recientemente SNC y la Agencia Espacial Europea anunciaban también un acuerdo según el cual la ESA colaborará en el desarrollo de la nave espacial tripulada Dream Chaser, con lo que al final, aunque el proyecto Hermes lleva años cancelado, la ESA podría acabar por disponer de una nave tripulada.


La ESA se encarga también del desarrollo del módulo de servicio de la Orión, la próxima nave tripulada que está desarrollando la NASA, por lo que también es seguro que podrá disponer de plazas para sus astronautas en alguna de sus misiones.


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It Just Got Much Easier to Make Phone Calls in NYC Subways



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Viggle Acquires Dijit, Will Connect Its Rewards Program To Dijit’s TV Discovery App

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Viggle, which offers rewards for checking into TV shows and listening to music, is announcing that it has acquired Dijit Media, maker of the TV discovery app NextGuide.


The financial terms of the deal are not being disclosed, but a company spokesperson told me the entire Dijit team will be making the move to Viggle. The plan is to integrate NextGuide (a personalized programming guide for TV and the web) and the Dijit reminder button (an embeddable widget allowing users to sign up for reminders whenever a show is about to air) into Viggle’s platform, for example by offering Viggle Points into NextGuide.


“We have had incredible growth and success since our launch and we’re excited to join with another company that shares our goals – to create a holistic marketing platform for brands and networks, while giving our users content and tools they need to take control of their daily entertainment choices,” said Dijit CEO Jeremy Toeman in the acquisition release. (Toeman has written a couple of columns about the future of TV for TechCrunch.)


Viggle was founded in 2010 by Robert F.X. Sillerman, through Sillerman’s acquisition of an public-but-inactive company called Gateway Industries (making Viggle is a publicly traded company itself).


The company recently bought online publisher Wetpaint for $30 million in cash and stock, and it previously announced an agreement to acquired social TV startup GetGlue, but the deal fell through for undisclosed reasons. (A spokesperson told me that the Dijit deal has closed, so presumably we’re not going to see a repeat of the GetGlue situation.) Viggle says that across WetPaint, Dijit, and Viggle, it reached 17 million users in December.


Prior to this deal, Dijit actually made an acquisition itself, buying social TV startup Miso last year.






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Android climbed to 79 percent of smartphone market share in 2013, but its growth has slowed



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