Later this year, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission (MAVEN) is scheduled to launch on an exploratory and scientific mission for NASA, with support by the University of Colorado Boulder. As part of the spacecraft’s mission, it will act as the first spacecraft to focus primarily on the state of the upper atmosphere, the […]
Let’s face it, everyone loves a guy in a snazzy suit especially when that snazzy suit is the Iron Man armor and that man is Tony Stark, as played by the amazing Robert Downy Jr. Iron Man 3 opens this Friday in the U.S., and everyone is eager to see if the franchise that made […]
In the Driskill Hotel in the center of downtown Austin, TX, Google held a public meeting with the purpose of allowing people to ask questions about how Google Fiber will work in the city. Kevin Lo, general manager of Google Fiber, moderated the lively discussion that happened twice over today. Lo started out the panel […]
Those frustrating hours spent assembling a snorglesborg or jvarslk from Ikea may start coming to a close thanks to a Belgian designer and engineer who has been working on smart foam technology that unfolds itself into stylish furniture. Referred to as Memories of the Future, Carl de Smet has created a type of self-building furniture […]
You, and most of the planet, have been hacked. Thankfully, instead of stealing your identity or files off of your computer, the hacker’s main goal was to define a visual representation of what the internet looks like as people log on and off of it. By scanning the IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4), the anonymous […]
Some point in the late 1990s during one late Sunday night in Brixton, South London, I was waiting on a bus to go home. A guy came up to me, mumbling. I became nervous. Was he a nutter about to stab me? He had a hood on and it was drizzling lightly, if I recall […]
Without any fanfare, Tumblr managed to tick up to and past the 100 million blog mark this week. The burgeoning internet giant, founded in 2007 by David Karp, has gone on to have more than 44.6 billion posts by its many users. Blogs range from the celebrity-run kind to social movements to fandom-obsessed (Hello, Whovians, […]
It’s undeniable that Joseph Gordon-Levitt has become an entertainment powerhouse in the last few years. Most known for his appearance in movies such as Looper, The Dark Knight Rises, 50/50, Inception, JGL recently made his full-length feature directorial and screenwriting debut with Don Jon. The quickly rising star (who’s been rising since before he had […]
We here at Techcitement Towers love Minecraft. If we ever want to destroy a weekend, we set out to build a geodesic dome out of multicolored wool. We dig trenches that spell out our sweetheart’s name or dynamite holes to the center of the planet. What is this Minecraft of which you speak? It sounds […]
Last week, Amazon’s Publishing Group announced the launch of a seventh imprint, this one specifically for literary fiction including novels, short story collections, and memoirs. The imprint will go by the name Little A, as well as a digital-only version called Day One for individual stories from debut writers. Amazon’s new imprint follows in the […]
