YouTube and Lenovo, in cooperation with Space Adventures and space agencies including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), today announced YouTube Space Lab, a worldwide initiative that challenges 14-18 year-old students to design a science experiment that can be performed in space. The two winning experiments will be conducted aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and live streamed on YouTube.YouTube claims that Space Lab is ...

The long-awaited Facebook app for the iPad 2 is finally here. The app gives an official platform to the world’s leading social network on one of the world's most popular tablets. A number of analysts believed that the iPad 2 Facebook app would have launched last week during the iPhone launch event.iPad owners have been “forced” to deal with unofficial applications to access Facebook such as the surprisingly excellent Flipboard and MyPad.An interesting piece of additional info is that Facebook ...

When I was a kid of around 10 years old, I used to collect small motors and electrical components with my school friends in Nairobi. We’d find some batteries and create small rotating and whirling contraptions, dreaming of how we’d one day make a walking robot that we could sit in and control -- no doubt inspired by the Star Wars AT-STs.I’ve always enjoyed tinkering. It’s what drove my interest in telling the stories of Africa’s innovative hardware hackers in ...

The explosion of titles under the Huffington umbrella continues unabated after it was announced that , Le Huffington Post, a French version of the US news and opinion portal will be going live in November. The site will be run in conjunction with The Le Monde GroupAccording to The Huffington Post Media Group, Le Huffington Post will combine the local editorial resources of Le Monde with The Huffington Post's pioneering combination of original reporting, aggregation, a leading-edge commenting forum and ...

Facebook has acquired friend.ly, the firm behind a social question and answer app on the social network."We're excited to announce that we recently acquired friend.ly, a Silicon Valley startup that created a really compelling way for people to express themselves and meet others through answering questions," a Facebook spokesman said."The friend.ly team will be focusing on new projects at Facebook, but friend.ly will continue to operate as a separate service," the Mountain View, California-based startup said in a blog ...

Since the death of Steve Jobs, a photograph which features the late Apple founder's silhouette -- incorporated into the bite of a white Apple logo on a black background -- has become an internet sensation.The design, which has now come under accusations of plagiarism, was the sombre tribute of a Hong Kong design student to the Apple visionary. Jonathan Mak, the student in question, denies that he had copied another artist's work.The 19-year-old Mak said he was not the first ...

Tablet computers are set to become the central brains of almost all electronic devices. For example, a tablet computer could be docked into a car dashboard, effectively replacing the vehicle's dedicated navigation device, in-car entertainment and environmental controls.This is according to a new "special report" by US research company Gartner.Gartner says that one tablet may also replace multiple dedicated electronics devices by connecting with different peripherals.An example of this would include a tablet that wirelessly connects a blood pressure ...

Users of BlackBerry smartphones midday Monday began noticing that services accessed using BlackBerry’s Internet Service (BIS), were down.Initially it seemed that the service failures were localised to particular networks, then entire countries, before it emerged that this was a problem being experienced across the entire Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region.The blackout, Blackberry users reported, lasted for more than 12-hours.According to a report by The Telegraph, this entire region is served by a Research In Motion (RIM) data ...

It seems that a new research paper released by the Royal Holloway, University of London, and University of Twente is ready to change the way that people think about security. The paper is entitled "Gaming security by obscurity" and Professor Dusko Pavlovic, its author, presents an incredibly strong argument that Kerckhoff's Principle, an aphorism that is generally accepted across the security industry, no longer fully applies to modern computing environments.Kerckhoff's Principle claims that a system should be secure even if ...

Direct digital marketers are always under constant pressure to generate sales leads. Lead generation tactics have evolved over time and become more sophisticated, and marketers have been able to take advantage of the latest tools and platforms for cultivating leads. Regardless, generating high quality, sales-ready leads is a difficult objective. The great news for Mr. & Mrs. Direct is that good old email marketing, if done right, is still one of the most effective ways to generate, nurture and qualify ...