Strapped in an orange suit in his spaceship, Yuri Gagarin smiles as the rockets roar and chirpily tells mission control: "Let's go!"

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

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(Phys.org) —Google Drive has a new look and functions. The makeover in Google Drive features scanning and interface enhancements that put the user into "card" mode. The enhancements make it easy for the ...

Technology - Software

May 23, 2013 4 / 5 (1) 0 |

Learning a new language can be a challenge, as new vocabulary and grammatical rules can be hard for some people to grasp. To address this issue, a group of linguistics graduate students are examining how a person's working ...

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Apr 15, 2013 not rated yet 0

A couple of days ago on The Conversation, I set myself up with a task: to defend the usefulness of so-called "useless" maths. Today, that defence continues, with a look at the RSA algorithm.

Other Sciences - Mathematics

Apr 10, 2013 3.9 / 5 (7) 2

(AP)—The agency that oversees Internet domain names says it will open a satellite office in China, home of the world's largest Internet population.

Technology - Internet

Apr 08, 2013 not rated yet 0

Hollywood devotes great effort to chasing monsters through realistic-looking environments. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken have now developed a technology that greatly ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

Feb 28, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 2 |

South Korea's high-tech sector won't be taking the spotlight at Taiwan's biggest annual extravaganza.

Technology - Business

Dec 31, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org)—By reorganizing the typewriter's characters into ready-made clusters of commonly used words, Mao-era Chinese typists solved problems that cell phones only came to recently.

Technology - Other

Nov 29, 2012 2 / 5 (2) 4 |

An online video featuring cartoon creatures killing themselves in a variety of ways as part of an Australian transport safety campaign has gone viral, with almost 12 million YouTube views in a week.

Technology - Internet

Nov 21, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

Using cutting-edge virtual reality technology, researchers have 'beamed' a person into a rat facility allowing the rat and human to interact with each other on the same scale.

Technology - Engineering

Oct 31, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 2

US President Barack Obama got an exceptional spike of more than one million "likes" on Facebook this week in his battle with Republican Mitt Romney in the social media space, a monitoring site showed.

Technology - Internet

Oct 10, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 5

Robots are increasingly being used in place of humans to explore hazardous and difficult-to-access environments, but they aren't yet able to interact with their environments as well as humans. If today's ...

Electronics - Robotics

Oct 09, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 0

(Phys.org)—CAPTCHAs by definition (stands for Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) are gotcha tools that are used to spot automated-attack attempts posing as people. ...

Technology - Internet

Oct 09, 2012 3 / 5 (2) 2 |

Hackers staged a surprise attack on the online role-playing game World of Warcraft and "killed" some virtual characters, the company operating the game said Monday.

Technology - Internet

Oct 08, 2012 4.6 / 5 (5) 15

Within milliseconds, and just with the help of mathematics, computing power and conventional video cameras, computer scientists at the Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken can automatically ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

Aug 28, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 2 |