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SpaceX mission makes history: docking successful
This morning NASA confirmed that the SpaceX mission sending the Dragon had officially been captured as well as completely docked with the ISS – history has been made! The first of two stages of docking was made 10:52 AM CST, the second at 11:02 AM CST, both stages needed at the International Space Station before the pod can be officially docked and the mission can be seen as a success. This docking comes after a single missed opportunity launch on Earth followed by a successful launch, this making SpaceX the first commercial group to launch and successfully attach to the ISS.
SpaceX docks with ISS: “Looks like we caught a Dragon by the tail”
NASA and SpaceX have made history today, with the International Space Station reaching out and grappling the Dragon capsule with its robotic arm. The culmination of a three day flight and numerous tests of the safety functionality necessary to protect both Dragon and the ISS, the team aboard the orbiting space platform guided the robotic arm to pluck the capsule out of the sky at 9:56 ET this morning.
Google Project Glass spills more prototype secrets
Another public outing for Google’s Project Glass has spilled even more details about the wearable augmented reality headset, including some of the first indications of just what’s visible through that single display. New glimpses of the prototypes have been shown courtesy of a Google Glass Walk that took place earlier this week in San Francisco, including what seems to be the first shot of the headset not actually being worn.
Facebook’s own-brand Instagram rival prompts head-scratching
Facebook‘s decision to launch its own Facebook Camera app this week, despite having announced a $1bn grab for Instagram only weeks earlier, continues to confuse, with some suspecting Zuckerberg & Co. have finally lost the plot. It’s been a shaky few weeks for Facebook, with Mark Zuckerberg forced to defend his decision to buy Instagram, a tumultuous IPO not helped by Nasdaq’s technical issues and complaints of over-inflated valuations, and ongoing concerns around privacy. Now, replicating Instagram with a home-grown alternative, Facebook’s mobile strategy is under the microscope again.
Galaxy S III arrives early for some
Samsung’s Galaxy S III isn’t expected to start showing up with eager new buyers until midway through next week at the earliest, but it looks like some retailers have jumped the gun. A SlashGear reader in Asia managed to snag not one but two Galaxy S III handsets, and shared a few photos of his new toys that he took using the Samsung’s 8-megapixel camera itself.
NVIDIA: 30 Tegra 3 smartphones coming in 2012
This week NVIDIA has brought forth the fury with an almost offhand mention of the fact that they’ve got plans for 28 more Tegra 3 quad-core smartphones for the year 2012. This adds to the two already announced Tegra 3 smartphones including the HTC One X which we’ve got a full review of as well as a hands-on with the other, that being the LG Optimus 4X. New devices will likely start popping up near the end of the year with 4G LTE capabilities as well via the Icera 410 for AT&T also announced this morning.
Samsung Smart TV Voice, Gesture and Face Recognition Hands-on
When it comes to the greatest in living room entertainment, Smart TV is only half of the battle: actually accessing that smart content presents challenges of its own. Statistics show that a sizable number of Smart TV owners don’t actually use the more advanced features their sets are capable of, intimidated or confused by the complexity of the button-encrusted remotes. Samsung has taken its own route to interactivity, replacing overly-complex remote controls with a combination of gesture, voice and face-recognition.
Google+ for Android updated: New UI and mobile Hangout control
Google has released a new version of Google+ for Android, with v2.6 following the recently updated iPhone version with a slick new UI and better integration with Hangout video chat. The new Android app now allows Google+ users to start a new Hangout while on the move, with a new navigation “ribbon” getting a dedicated “Hangout” button. Tap that, add some friends, and their phones automatically ring to notify them you’ve made a video chat request.
NVIDIA hits AT&T 4G LTE with Icera 410
This morning the folks at NVIDIA have announced their first trip into the world of AT&T 4G LTE with the Icera 410 LTE mulimode data modem chipset for tablets and clamshell devices. This chipset paves the way for NVIDIA to be working on the 4G LTE network AT&T offers in the very near future and through the future as well with Tegra-powered devices galore. The qualification tests this chipset has just gone through will allow product manufacturers from all corners of the market to quickly and easily get set up with 4G LTE and will set NVIDIA up for big wins in the connected AT&T smart device market for some time to come.
Yahoo! Axis browser debuts
Everyone may be content using Google as their primary search provider, but Yahoo! still has a horse in the race. The company has unveiled its latest creation, dubbed Axis, a new browser designed to make searching more visual and intuitive. Dedicated apps are available for the iPhone and iPad, while Axis serves as a browser extension for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari on PCs and Macs.
“In retrospect, it was incorrect” says NASDAQ on Facebook IPO
NASDAQ today is letting investors know that they will not necessarily get “dollar on the dollar” compensation for the losses they experienced at the hands of the blackout felt at the start of Friday’s Facebook IPO. It’s not that NASDAQ doesn’t want Facebook as a stock anymore, nor that they regret working with Facebook in the first place, it’s just that they wish they’d not started the day on the wrong side of the bed, so to speak. A conference call between brokers and NASDAQ at Tuesday’s close of the market had NASDAQ OMX Group’s Eric Noll saying that trading “by no means would have gone forward” if they’d known problems would arise.
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