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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...

Enlarge ImageBrits hoping to see the Northe Lights earlier this week received a false alarm email. But hey, at least the lawn got mowed. Aloysius Low/CNET "Get off my lawn" took on new meaning on Tuesday. A group of British scientists sent out a notification that the Northe Lights would be visible in their area, but it tued out to be a backyard boo-boo.AuroraWatch UK is run by Lancaster University's space and planetary physics group, and uses readings from magnetometers to determine if the striking aurora borealis will be visible across Britain. The group uses Twitter,Facebook and email to let followers know w...

Enlarge ImageThe two Koreas. Google South Korea has delayed its reply to Google's request for mapping data, a Reuters report said Wednesday. The Alphabet property first reached out to South Korea in June, requesting access to govement-held mapping information for distribution to outside servers. This would allow Google to offer complete Google Maps services there. South Korean officials had previously agreed to reach a decision by Wednesday but have now pushed their decision to November 23. According to Reuters, the information would improve South Korea's maps, but officials want to take more time to weigh sec...

Josh Miller/CNET Samsung hoped that no Olympic athlete would leave Rio empty handed. The South Korean electronics giant provided the more than 11,000 athletes competing in the Rio 2016 Olympics with a special edition Galaxy S7 smartphone.One country, however, has refused the free gift. According to a report from Radio Free Asia, North Korea prevented the country's 31 competing athletes from receiving the complimentary smartphone. The report claims a North Korean official went to the Samsung office and took all of the phones that were to be provided to the country's athletes.Kim Song I, a North Korean athlete...

RoadshowNewsCar IndustryVolkswagen to stop selling most of its vehicles in South KoreaVolkswagen probably won't have to shell out $15 billion in South Korea, as it did in the US as part of its Dieselgate settlement. Alexander Koeer/Getty Images When Volkswagen admitted to willfully deceiving emissions testers around the world with its diesel vehicles, it immediately placed a stop-sale on its new cars in the US. It hasn't yet lifted that, nor has it sought to certify its latest models for sale. In South Korea, the company's taking it one step further, suspending sales of most of its models.VW's decision to hol...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageKim Jong-zuck? James Martin/CNET Many younger types imagine Facebook as a nirvana where you skateboard down corridors, code all night long and wait for the money to start rolling in.Antonio García Martinez thinks it's a little more like North Korea.The former (and fired) Facebook product manager today released a book called "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley."A snippet or two had already dribbled out: Martinez describing CEO Mark Zuckerberg as having a near-psychopathic s...

Enlarge Image Mark Godefroy/Women on Waves Women's advocacy groups have used a drone to send abortion pills to women in Northe Ireland. In a protest against abortion laws in both Northe Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, Dutch group Women on Waves teamed up with Northe Irish group Alliance for Choice, Irish group Rosa and Northe Irish group Labour Alteative to airlift the medicine.The drone was flown across the border from County Louth in the Republic of Ireland to Narrow Water Castle in County Down, just after 10 a.m. local time on June 21. Women there took pills containing the abortifacient drugs mifepris...