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Enlarge ImageThis image was taken about two hours prior to Juno's closest approach to Jupiter. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Jupiter's south pole was well documented by Cassini on its way to Satu, but the north pole (home of Jovian Santa, one could only assume) has remained much more mysterious. This is set to change with the arrival of Jupiter probe Juno, which completed its first flyby of the north pole on August 27 and has already started delivering.On that flyby, Juno got busy taking photos with its JunoCam instrument from a distance of just 4,200 kilometres (2,500 miles) above Jupiter's clouds as it travelle...

Under tremendous pressure to continue the iovative performance record forged by Steve Jobs, Tim Cook officially took over as CEO of Apple five years ago, with looming questions about his ability to deliver.As Cook celebrates his fifth aiversary as chief, questions still linger. Let's block ads! بخوانید...

In Calais, three refugee camps were designed with very different ideas in mind. They each have their own unique problems....

Legendary Pictures is bringing CG characters from movies like "Warcraft"and the upcoming "Pacific Rim 2"from the silver screen to your living room with a little help from Microsoft's HoloLens.We also take a look at an incredible bionic hand, built from a disassembled Keurig coffeemaker. Builder Evan Booth spent about 200 hours on the project, and the final product is impressive, to say the least. Close ...

Oscar-wiing makeup artist Michael Westmore, a mentor on the competition show "Face Off," also has the heft of a massive Star Trek resume behind him. He has worked on every Star Trek series except for the original '60s show. Westmore hosted a live-on-stage Borg-making demonstration at the 50th aiversary Star Trek convention in Las Vegas. Let's block ads! بخوانید...

The Star Trek 50th aiversary convention in Las Vegas attracts an out-of-this-world cosplay display. There are plenty of fans in Starfleet uniforms, but clever costumes also include an Orion slave girl, Santa Go and a strange Elvis-Trek mashup.This spectacular Nero costume pays tribute to the villain of the first Star Trek reboot movie, from 2009. The makeup is spot on. Let's block ads! بخوانید...

The Star Trek 50th aiversary convention in Las Vegas attracts an out-of-this-world cosplay display. There are plenty of fans in Starfleet uniforms, but clever costumes also include an Orion slave girl, Santa Go and a strange Elvis-Trek mashup.This spectacular Nero costume pays tribute to the villain of the first Star Trek reboot movie, from 2009. The makeup is spot on. Let's block ads! بخوانید...

As a kid, one of my most vivid memories of watching the political conventions on TV was the balloon drop at the end. And the DNC 2016's balloon drop didn't disappoint in real life. Following Clinton's speech, 1,000 pounds of confetti and 100,000 balloons, including some giant ones 36-inches in diameter, rained down from the ceiling of the Wells Fargo Center. Let's block ads! بخوانید...

[embedded content] Could computers be capable of creating art? This new AI from Chinese search-engine giant Baidu seems to be able to do just that.In a new exhibit at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, Baidu's new AI is analysing photos and paintings and creating entirely original musical arrangements based on the imagery it sees.Baidu, often called the Google of China, is the country's largest search-engine provider. It comprises China's "big three" inteet companies alongside Alibaba and Tencent. It's project is another example of what AI can do -- months after Google's AlphaGo artificial intelligence won four out of five games i...

Enlarge Image Blincam A team in Japan has made hands-free photography simpler than ever -- at least, for people who wear glasses. The Blincam is a camera that attaches to specs and takes pictures when you blink -- finally giving you a legitimate reason to wink at everyone and everything. It operates its shutter when it detects firm, intentional blinks of the eye with patent-pending sensor technology that can differentiate between natural eye-blinking and a concerted effort. With its built-in Bluetooth technology, any images captured by the device is uploaded to a paired phone.You can see the Blincam in all it...

Enlarge ImageThe big guy and three of its largest moons as seen from Juno. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS About a week after NASA's Juno spacecraft entered orbit around Jupiter on July 4, the first images taken from the spacecraft's perch around the largest planet in the solar system have made their way back to Earth. On Sunday, six days after starting its orbit, Juno's visible light camera was tued on and the JunoCam captured the above scene, proving it survived its first pass through the planet's intense radiation. (We already heard the audio evidence that it made it into Jupiter's magnetosphere.) The view show...

Amazon's Prime Day shopping-fest of a holiday launched in 2015 with some oddball bargains, ranging from giant tubs of taffy to signed "Goonies" photos. This year's festivities may be full of electronics bargains, but the party also contains plenty of bizarre products. Anybody want to to buy a gimp outfit with chainmail pants?This bouncy animal is designed for kids, but it will make plenty of adults long for the days of childhood. The inflatable animal hopper is known as Bey the Jumping Bull. The description says it's "SO-MUCH-FUN." It's part of the stranger side of Amazon's Prime Day deal-palooza. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service - if this is your cont...

One of the perks of being bo into a nerdy family happens when your brother gets married, asks you to be his best man and lets you go nuts when it comes to designing a bachelor party with a Dungeons & Dragons theme. The classic role-playing game offers many possibilities when it comes to decor and activities. Here's how I tued a stag night into an immersive monster-fighting adventure.Ambience is key when it comes to hosting a Dungeons & Dragons-theme party. A professional artist helped to paint these massive murals and baers, which are held up with two-sided stickums on the wall. The dungeon wall features creeping vines and bloody hand prints to add to the dark and dangerous feel of t...

RoadshowNewsCoupesHere are the first official pictures of the Acura NSX GT3 racecarMore cars (or all of them) should be offered with exposed carbon fiber. Don't ask what that would do to the average transaction price, though... Acura Acura's released the first official pictures of the NSX GT3 ahead of its North American motorsports debut.The automaker debuted its latest motorsport offering without much pomp or circumstance at this year's New York Inteational Auto Show. After that, well, it just sort of faded into the background. Until now.Unlike the road-going NSX, which relies on a hybrid powertrain, the NSX...

The machines feature everything from auto-steering capabilities to apps that tell farmers what's going on in their fields....

Enlarge ImageHurrah! NASA's Juno satellite gets the Google Doodle treatment! Google To honor NASA's Juno spacecraft entering Jupiter's orbit, Google illustrated the successful mission with a animated doodle honoring the team who worked hard to get us our first color images of the gas giant. The Juno mission aims to take new measurements and photos with the nine instruments aboard the 3,500-pound satellite. Juno will spend 20 months making 37 trips around the planet. Even cooler, NASA is allowing the public to choose how the spacecraft's JunoCam takes color photos.Juno sent back its first photograph of Jupiter...

NASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft arrives at Jupiter on July 4, 2016. NASA This Fourth of July, while the rest of America is busy eating hotdogs and lighting fireworks (hopefully at the same time), the dedicated scientists and engineers of NASA are once again putting in the long hours, this time to bring us never before seen pictures of Jupiter. But once NASA gets us there, it's up to us to take pictures of the action. After almost five years hurtling solo through space, the solar-powered Juno spacecraft is today set to enter Jupiter's orbit, before spending 20 months circling the gas giant. In this time...

NASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft arrives at Jupiter on July 4, 2016. NASA This Fourth of July, while the rest of America is busy eating hotdogs and lighting fireworks (hopefully at the same time), the dedicated scientists and engineers of NASA are once again putting in the long hours, this time to bring us never before seen pictures of Jupiter.But once NASA gets us there, it's up to us to take pictures of the action. After almost five years hurtling solo through space, the solar-powered Juno spacecraft is today set to enter Jupiter's orbit, before spending 20 months circling the gas giant. In this time, J...

The new data on Jupiter keeps getting weirder and more wonderful as NASA's Juno spacecraft approaches the massive planet to begin orbiting it on Monday. The solar-powered probe, which began its jouey in 2011, has already been collecting data on the solar wind and more. In the video below, data from the moment Juno crossed into Jupiter's magnetic field is presented as an audio stream.Late last week, Juno crossed the bow shock, which NASA describes as analogous to a sonic boom on Earth. It's the threshold where the solar wind (basically energized particles thrown off into space by the sun) begins to be affected by the planet's powerful magnetosphere. Even more eerie is the sound of the spacecr...

Enlarge Image"Visions of Harmony" is designed to highlight "the link between exploring space and making music." Apple Space exploration and music have a long history together, with astronauts on moon missions traditionally being woken up by mission control with a musical selection.So it makes sense, that with the Juno probe mere days from its destination of Jupiter's orbit, NASA would like some music to mark the occasion. So the US space agency teamed up with Apple to offer songs inspired by the mission.As part of the collaboration, Apple launched a Destination: Jupiter page on iTunes on Thursday that feature...