A self-driving car on public sidewalks
Wednesday, 11 February 2015
Transport Systems Catapult, a British innovation agency, unveiled an electric self-driving vehicle that will begin transporting people around Milton Keynes, a town 50 miles outside London. The car has a top speed of 15 mph and will drive on sidewalks instead of roads. It’s expected to be used to ferry visitors from the train station
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Apple challenges mobile operators
Tuesday, 20 January 2015
It might sound obvious, but Apple SIM is Apple’s own SIM standard – and it’s been threatening to instigate it for years. Traditional SIM cards are physical chips that act as network keys for a single account attached to a single network operator, but Apple SIM isn’t tied to any network and is software-based. But
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The sky of July
Wednesday, 04 July 2012
THE PLANETS MERCURY: from day 1 just after sunset until mid-month. VENUS: visible in the morning just before dawn in the constellation Taurus, with Aldebaran and Jupiter it forms a trio for the duration of the month. MARS: visible in the first hour after sunset among the stars of Virgo, during the month approaching the
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Bye bye Venus
Wednesday, 06 June 2012
Seven telescopes pointed on our star has allowed us to admire one of the most fascinating and rare that nature offers, the transit of Venus across the Sun. So rare an event that has occurred in the nineteenth century and never occurred in the twentieth, which will repeat again in 2117. We’ll not see it
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The sky of June
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
THE PLANETS MERCURY: for the entire month it is observable at sunset, it will show itself in the best conditions from June 10, the date whereby the planet sets at 1h and 10 m after the Sun. In just 30 days the planet transits in three constellations: at the beginning of the month it is
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