SpaceX forced to delay launch of NASA’s planet-hunting TESS satellite
NASA’s powerful, planet-hunting satellite TESS was supposed to launch into orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 on Monday, but plans were nixed at the last moment …
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NASA’s planet-hunting TESS satellite will launch in just days
NASA already has some pretty powerful tools for detecting far-off worlds, but the latest and greatest is set to launch into space this coming Monday, …
India just lost contact with its brand new satellite
Countless satellites are orbiting the Earth at this very moment. Some of them are working fine, some are long dead, and others are somewhere in …
Lost NASA satellite wakes up after being declared ‘dead’ 13 years ago
NASA has had a pretty great string of luck when it comes to spacecraft reliability as of late. The Cassini probe around Saturn proved to …
Watch: Mesmerizing video gives an incredible look at Friday morning’s solar eclipse
The total eclipse of the sun came and went on Friday morning, though many people were out of luck when it came to actually enjoying the …
Pay TV companies make their customers curse more than any other
Have you ever dropped a profane four-letter word when dealing with your cable or satellite TV provider? If so then you aren’t alone… in fact, …
One-third of cord cutters say they’ll never go back to cable
It seems that a good number of people who have unsubscribed from cable or satellite television services never want to go back. According to a …
Over 1 million U.S. cable subscribers cut the cord in 2011
More than 1 million cable television subscribers in the United States canceled their service in 2011, opting instead for online films and TV shows available …
Dish Network’s spectrum should avoid GPS issues suffered by LightSquared, analysts say
Philip Falcone’s startup LightSquared planned to deploy a nationwide 4G LTE network in the United States. The firm’s service was found to cause interference with …
Netflix beats Hulu Plus in social streaming showdown [infographic]
When we last heard from social media listening firm Mashwork, we learned that future smartphone buyers were much more interested in purchasing the Samsung Galaxy …
Toshiba intros Satellite P700 series notebooks
On Tuesday Toshiba took the wraps off of its new Satellite P700 series laptops. The models include the P745, P755/P755 3D, and P775, which sport …
AT&T outs Remote Mobility Zone portable cell site solutions
On Monday, AT&T took the wraps off of its new Remote Mobility Zone products that it hopes will help business, government, and public safety agencies …
Clearleap to bring on-demand cable TV to Roku
Folks on the fence about a Roku box may be swayed by the news that Roku is teaming up with Clearleap to bring on-demand cable …
Hollywood studios gain approval to block analog hole for new releases
Hollywood was granted a major victory by the FCC this past week in a decision that gives the studios permission to shut down the analog …
Garmin-ASUS intros the nüvifone A50 and M10
Any smartphone worth a darn has GPS capabilities, but some are more adept at finding their way than others. After getting a reputation for a …
DirecTV to launch 3D-HD channel in 2010
You know what was so 2009? Television in HD. You know what is so 2010? Television in HD and 3D. HD Guru is reporting that …
DTV came, saw and conquered; was it good for you?
Changeover day came and went this past Friday and while the vast majority of the country likely didn’t even notice, a handful of people were …
DTV cometh
Today is the day our grandparents have been dreading for quite some time now — that is, if they even knew DTV was on its …
Sirius XM reveals iPhone app in the works; Q2 launch
A lot of of chatter was generated when the team behind StarPlayr announced it was dumping its project to bring Sirius XM content to the …
Geoeye-1 snaps its first high resolution satellite image
Back in September, Geoeye and Google launched Geoeye-1, the world’s highest resolution, commercial Earth-imaging satellite that will provide images for Google Maps and Google Earth. …
Google has its (Geo)Eye on you
Scoring a big win for its Google Maps and Google Earth online mapping program, Google has snagged exclusive rights to satellite imagery from the worlds …
