An American spy satellite stopped to work and now it has lost propulsion. For this reason, it will crash to Earth in late February or early March, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said Monday.
“We are monitoring it … we take our obligations seriously with respect to the use of space”, Whitman said, but he didn’t want to give details about the characteristics of the satellite or where they think it will impact.
According to The New York Times, some experts said Monday it could be an experimental imagery satellite launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California in December 2006.
The spy satellites are maneuvered in space in low orbit to meet military surveillance needs, and they require a highly toxic fuel, like the hydrazine, the specialists said.
* The following video shows a Russian rocket falling back to Earth over the Denver (USA) area last year. You can see how a solid cylinder becomes a mass of tiny pieces. The same should happen when spy satellite falls.
Recently, Reed Hastings, the Netflix CEO, commented that although Blu-Ray has the advantage, the war with HD DVD is not over yet and it will continue for a while.
Hastings said that Blu-Ray’s adoption by consumers would accelerate the end of that war but it is not still happening and “definitely the winds are shifting to Blu-ray but nothing done yet”… and he explains his reasons for thinking that way. The executive said that in order to get to the point when Sony would kill the Toshiba HD DVD because Blu-Ray would be widely accepted, it is necessary that the Blu-Ray players fall below $200 just like Toshiba players, and it hasn’t happened yet.
And another event to end the war would be the Blu-Ray’s adoption by Universal Studios and Paramount. None of the two things have happened and the war will continue, according to Hasting.
Netflix, which offers movie rentals by mail in United States, supports both formats.
Imeem is another Internet social network that is becoming very popular lately. It is an online community where musicians / artists, directors, photographers, and groups can promote, recommend or discover art, blogs, photos, music, films / videos and pop culture media. Similar to other networks on Internet, you can become social by building a friends (or fans) list in order to stay connected with them by informing updates or receiving updates from them. There are three basic things you can do on Imeem:
* Discover: You can browse thousands of musical videos, photos, group or personal blogs and profiles posted on Imeem. As usual, you stay up-to-date with news from your fans and friends network.
* Interact: You can comment, rate and share content on your network in order to promote it or simply because you want to notify something. Also, you can create groups about a specific topic (for example: musical bands or a special event). Or just participate in discussions about any topic with other users.
* Share: Imeem allows you to promote your content by sharing it with your friends. So, if you are a musician, a film maker, a photographer or a painter, then Imeem is a great opportunity to publicize your work and ask for opinions. Or maybe you only want to recommend stuffs from other sources to your friends.
The amplification of a photograph taken by the Nasa Mars Rover (Spirit) in November of last year, on Mars surface, shows a greenish-brown human figure.
The discovery was made by “amateur astronomers”, according to an online report from The Daily Mail (British newspaper) published on Tuesday, and it was the result of a meticulous examination of the picture taken by NASA, which was published on January 2.
When the image was discovered, the American space agency just pointed out that it was captured by the exploration vehicle (Spirit) between November 6 and November 9, on the edge of a plateau when the vehicle was going through it. This plateau was called Home Plate, in the inner basin of the Columbia Hills range inside Gusev Crater.
NASA clarified that the taken panoramic image, looking toward the west, is a composition of separate pictures, and they were taken with Pancam filters. And the color is not real, but rather it has been modified to see details clearly.
New Multi-GPU Technology With No Strings Attached (Slashdot):
Vigile writes "Multi-GPU technology from both NVIDIA and ATI has long been dependent on many factors including specific motherboard chipsets and forcing gamers to buy similar GPUs within a single generation. A new company called Lucid Logix is showing off a product that could potentially allow vastly different GPUs to work in tandem while still promising near-linear scaling on up to four chips. ...
Recently, Reed Hastings, the 
The amplification of a photograph taken by the Nasa Mars Rover (Spirit) in November of last year, on Mars surface, shows a greenish-brown human figure.
