A Quixotic Quest to Mine Asteroids

from http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303513404577356190967904210.html

The venture, called Planetary Resources Inc., revealed little in a press release this week except to say that it would "overlay two critical sectors—space exploration and natural resources—to add trillions of dollars to the global GDP" and "help ensure humanity's prosperity." The company is formally unveiling its plans at an event Tuesday in Seattle.

Asus Transformer Pad TF300T

from http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2403304,00.asp

With its newest 10-inch tablet, the Transformer Pad TF300T ($379 list 16GB; $399, 32GB), Asus eschews major hardware and design upgrades, opting instead for incremental improvements and a more value-focused remix of an existing tablet. The TF300T is a more affordable version of the current Eee Pad Transformer Prime ($499, 4 stars). Inside, you'll still find the quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 processor that made the Prime the fastest Android device to come through our labs. But some of the premium features like the aluminum back and Super IPS+ display are absent—and the price is $100 lower to compensate. The TF300T is still one of the fastest tablets available, but it doesn't quite have the chops to topple the New Apple iPad ($499, 4.5 stars) as the best 10-inch tablet on the block. Solid performance, the latest Android OS, and signature keyboard dock make the TF300T a solid iPad alternative, but we're still waiting for a spectacular Android tablet to blow us away.

Me and my data: how much do the internet giants 我和我的數據 really know?

Me and my data: how much do the internet giants really know?

from http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/22/me-and-my-data-internet-giants?newsfeed=true

James Ball discovered that the information Google and Facebook hold on him is disturbing but also comforting Making sense of the huge amount of information companies such as Google keep about us is no easy task. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA\

To briefly state the obvious, the internet giants are seriously big: Google is not only the world's largest search engine, it's one of the top threeemail providers, a social network, and owner of the Blogger platform and the world's largest video site, YouTube. Facebook has the social contacts, messages, wallposts and photos of more than 750 million people.

Given that such information could be used to sell us stuff, accessed by government or law enforcement bodies (perhaps without warrants, under legal changes), or – theoretically, at least – picked up by hackers or others, it's not unreasonable to wonder exactly how much the internet giants know about us.

YouTube loses music clip copyright battle in court

from http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/20/youtube-music-clip-copyright-court?newsfeed=true

German court rules that YouTube must take down copyrighted music clips - a move which could lead to royalty payments

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