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Chandrayaan-1 gets back to work
" A day after landing India’s first probe instrument on the surface of the moon, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) was on Saturday getting ready to activate eight other scientific instruments on board the country’s first unmanned lunar spacecraft,... Google Earth to license new satellite imagery
"Google has agreed to license imagery for their mapping products from a satellite due to launch on September 4th. This new satellite can take detailed imagery for an area the size of Delaware in one day. What does...138 views | 0 comments | 0 recommendations
Study shows: Smokers try to quit, but can't
So I have a friend (he shall remain anonymous) who has a HUGE smoking problem. Everytime we hang out, he would either waste time to go buy some cigarettes, or take 5minutes off from whatever we were doing to smoke.... 1677 views | 48 comments | 14 recommendations
Plane goes missing over Indonesia
UPDATE: 6:19PM EST - Friday June 27thThe plane may have been sighted, but it is still not known whether there are any survivors." Police and military teams scoured dense jungle today in search of an Indonesian air...Royal Navy's sonar testing may have killed dolphins off Cornish coast
Investigators may have found the cause of the mysterious mass dolphin deaths in the UK. Some special testing by the Royal Navy may have killed them."The Royal Navy had been testing sonar equipment only miles from the bay where dozens of dolphins met an agonising death.Another...101 views | 0 comments | 0 recommendations
Burma cyclone: Mapping the aftermath
A picture worth than thousand words. This map graphic story from BBC news site give us a clear picture about the cyclone-hit Burma. Have a look at this graphic story, how the cyclone has affected the lives of hundred of thousands people souls."The cyclone that hit Burma on 3... Canada's Arctic Sovereignty: "Say It with TNT"
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorIn the 1950's Race for Space saw Russia and the Americans pulling out all the stops to claim Space as their own. Canada is doing the same in claiming the Arctic's... 594 views | 3 comments | 15 recommendations
Google Earth Maps Refugee Crisis
Kudos to Google and the UNHCR for undertaking a project that makes such worthy and excellent use of Google's technologies, to educate and inform the public about global humanitarian crises."Internet search giant...531 views | 0 comments | 0 recommendations
Nanaimo 'Capital of Google Earth,' says Time Magazine
The unlikely Google hotspot of Nanaimo, BC, a 78,000-person city about an hour north of Victoria, has made waves by pioneering new features of Google Earth, and Time Magazine recently took note. Check out some... 873 views | 4 comments | 2 recommendations
A Brilliant Idea Mashed Up
Christmas Lights on the Tacky Light Tour For years Matt Burgess searched newspapers, magazines and his neighbors for a list of the best Christmas lights in Richmond, Virginia. He wasn’t the only one taking...
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Microsoft buys UK mapping service
"Microsoft has bought online mapping company Multimap to expand its web business, the US firm said. Multimap, which was established in 1996, is among the UK's top 10 visited websites, receiving more than 10 million users each month. Microsoft hopes that the acquisition "will... Google Earth Gets Sharper Satellite
Great..now Google will get to see my in my panties in my living... 532 views | 1 comment | 2 recommendations
Oops, another top secret exposed
Image on right is a screen grab of Microsoft's Virtual Earth showing the Ohio class ballistic missile submarine in dry dock near Bangor in Washington state. Inset: 2003 photo of USS Virginia in contstruction showing... 603 views | 2 comments | 2 recommendations
Biometric Facial Recognition In Three Dimensions :: Symblogogy
"Not just a photo, or an algorithm analyzing a simple X, Y axis, or a PIN number process ... No, not for this Japanese company. What they were really looking for is a system that delivered a sort of "DNA" as in...998 views | 4 comments | 10 recommendations
If Clicks Were Votes - Republican Candidates
It's just an idea, mapped out. Cool and thought-provoking."The 2008 Presidential election is still over a year away, but the campaign is in full swing. While it’s still far too early to make any predictions about... 462 views | 2 comments | 14 recommendations
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