NASA is funding a 3D food printer, and it’ll start with pizza
NASA is funding a 3D food printer, and it’ll start with pizza NASA is funding research into 3D-printed food. As Quartz reveals, Mechanical engineer Anjan Contractor received a $125,000 grant from the agency to build a prototype 3D printer with the aim of automating food creation. It’s hoped the system could provide astronauts food during long-distance space travel, but its [...]
In a deal that would vault Yahoo into the premiere league of social media, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is said to be closing in on a $1 billion acquisition deal with David Karp, the CEO of New York-based Tumblr. Details of the talks leaked out earlier Thursday via AllThingsD, a site which prides itself on [...]
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Google CEO Larry Page is finally disclosing the health problem that spooked investors last summer when he mysteriously lost his voice. In a Tuesday post on his Google Plus profile, Page says he is afflicted with a paralyzed left vocal cord and a severely restricted right vocal cord. He traced the trouble to a bad [...]
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China is one of a number of countries that has gained permanent observer status on the Arctic Council. At a meeting in Sweden, the eight members of the Council accepted India, Italy, Japan, South Korea and Singapore. However following dissent from Canada, a decision on the EU’s application has been deferred. The permanent observers have [...]
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Sometime very soon, probably Wednesday, somebody will download the 50 billionth app on iTunes. Apple will give the lucky downloader a $10,000 App Store gift card. The next 50 people to download an app after that will each receive a $500 gift card. If you’re curious to see when this might happen so you can [...]
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An anonymous bidder paid $610,000 to chat over coffee with Apple’s chief executive, according to online-auction site Charity Buzz, which began accepting bids about three weeks ago. Tuesday’s winning bid came only several minutes before the auction closed at 4 pm ET. The auction site had valued the meeting with Cook at $50,000. Proceeds from [...]
Continue reading …Three Chinese airlines received “false bomb threats” on Wednesday that caused disruption to five different domestic flights destined for the southern city of Shenzhen, state-run media reported. Shenzhen Airlines said on its official microblog account that it had received multiple threats that lead it to reroute two flights and delay another. A flight to Shenzhen [...]
Continue reading …SEOUL — Samsung Electronics said Monday it had made a key breakthrough in developing mobile technologies for so-called fifth-generation networks that would provide data transmission up to several hundred times faster than the current fourth-generation, or 4G, technology. The breakthrough helped Samsung overcome limitations in transmitting large volumes of data over long distances using a [...]
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The carrier revealed in its first quarter earnings report Wednesday that it has sold 500,000 iPhone 5′s since the device went on sale April 12. On the day that the iPhone first went on sale, T-Mobile reported having lines out the door (a rare event for the carrier). A rep from the company actually described the first day selling [...]
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Reuters – Google founder Sergey Brin poses for a portrait wearing Google Glass glasses before the Diane von Furstenberg Spring/Summer 2013 collection show during New York Fashion Week September 9, 2012. REUTERS/Carlo SAN FRANCISCO — Google’s wearable computer, the most anticipated piece of electronic wizardry since the iPad and iPhone, will not go on sale [...]
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