Tagged: Discovery & News
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Irish music discovery app Soundwave comes out of beta on 20 June News
17.06.2013 This Thursday will see the full release of Soundwave, a music-discovery app created and developed in Ireland that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak called “a music product that so... -
Bill Gates takes part in US$35m investment in open science network ResearchGate News
05.06.2013 Bill Gates along with Tenaya Capital have invested US$35m in a C funding round in open science era network ResearchGate. The network aims to remove archaic silos of science and...Categories: Digital Media, Intellectual Property, Internet, Investments, R&D, Research, Science, Search, Search Engines, Social Media -
Discovery launches TestTube, a web-only channel of non-fiction fun (video) News
28.05.2013 A year after its acquisition of Revision3, Discovery Communications is making the most of its investment with the launch of TestTube, a new web-based channel featuring 15... -
Data analysis ‘strongly indicates’ particle is Higgs boson - CERN News
14.03.2013 An analysis of data pertaining to an elementary particle found in the atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in July “strongly indicates” it is the elusive Higgs boson... -
Curiosity rover finds ancient streambed on Mars - NASA News
28.09.2012 US space agency NASA’s Curiosity rover mission on Mars has found evidence a stream once ran across the area on the planet where the rover is driving, NASA said. -
Archaeologist may have discovered new pyramids using Google Earth News
14.08.2012 Using images captured by Google Earth, satellite archaeology researcher Angela Micol has discovered two sites in Egypt that may be home to eight undiscovered pyramids. -
Scientists find new moon around Pluto using Hubble Space Telescope News
12.07.2012 Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a fifth moon circling Pluto, which could provide them with information on how the Pluto system formed and evolved. -
Space shuttle Discovery prepares for final flight today News
17.04.2012 If you happen to be in the Washington, DC, area today between 10am and 11am EDT, you should cast your eyes upwards, as the space shuttle Discovery will be making its final trip... -
Charles Darwin fossils found in ‘old cabinet’ in new online exhibit News
17.01.2012 Fossils, which had been missing for 165 years, including some collected by Charles Darwin, have been found in an ‘old cabinet’ by paleontologist Dr Howard Falcon-Lang in the... -
Siri’s sibling Trapit may revolutionise content discovery News
15.11.2011 If you thought Siri, the artificial intelligence voice assistant on the iPhone 4S, was impressive, we wonder what you’d make of its sibling Trapit, a new way of discovering...Categories: Software & Web Development, Search, Research, R&D, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Apps -
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Obama checks in on space robot News
04.03.2011 The new robonaut aboard the International Space Station, named R2, was receiving a lot of attention on Earth, US President Barack Obama told the space station's crew in a phone... -
Space shuttle Discovery blasts off for final time News
25.02.2011 The space shutle Discovery lifted off for the last time yesterday, with six astronauts, supplies, spare parts and a robot destined for the International Space Station. -
Quantum computing leaps forward using silicon News
25.06.2010 A breakthrough in quantum computing shows that its very nature – the ability for an electron to exist in two places at once – can be implemented using plain old silicon. -
Cork ISP to invest €500k in cloud computing infrastructure News
25.06.2010 Cork internet service provider Strencom said it plans to invest €500,000 in building up its private cloud business. The investment will follow on a previous €250,000 investment...Categories: Servers, Science, Research, Private Irish Business, IT Organisation, Investments, Internet, Hosting Services, Computers, Cloud