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NASA has a photo of the ‘rise’ of the earth above the maanhorizon released. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO took the picture, or rather pictures. The LRO flew during the making of the photo 134km above the Compton-maankrater. Create a snapshot of the earth is no easy feat with the LRO. The spacecraft must…

Uavia, a company from France, has a quadcopter developed largely without human intervention to operate. The device is not fully autonomous, but without direct physical human intervention, flying, and landing. The company showed the quadcopter during the TechCrunch Disrupt meeting in London. The quadcopter of Uavia makes use of the Snappy Ubuntu Core. The first…

The National Museum of Computing in Bletchley is doing a replica build of the first computer for general use which stood on the University of Cambridge in 1949. The Edsac was the first computer that does not have a very specific purpose served, as was then customary. The rebuilding of such a piece of engineering…

Star Trek: Renegades via Kickstarter raise enough money for even an episode. The first episode was successfully funded through Kickstarter and Indiegogo campaigns, and came out on the 24th of August 2015. The goal of this new campaign was to be $ 350,000, converted 322.000 euro. Eventually, it was 378.181 dollar collected, that the stretch…

A former developer from the Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive has created a site to surf the internet, such as in the nineties of the previous century. The site used emulators for old browsers to run and then shows pages from the archives. Although it seems like the site old hardware emulates, to emphasize…

A user of Reddit has a Xcom game made in Excel. The work is, according to him, is not yet finished, but the game is already playable. Although the game in graphical point of view, very little of Xcom, is the underlying game mechanics the same. In his Redditpost allows user crruzi that at this…

On november 30, 1990 appeared on the Sega Mega Drive in Europe in the shops. The 16bit console at the time was much more advanced than its main competitor: the 8bit-NES. It was also the first console where a Sonic game for appeared. Sega introduced the Mega Drive at the end of 1988 already in…