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 […]
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SXSW 2013: The Highlights
By Justin Davis on March 18, 2013 in Art, Comics, Computers, Culture, Entertainment, Everything Else, Future Tech, Gaming, Hardware, Internet, Mac OS, Music, Nintendo, Odds And Ends, Open Source, Other Gadgets, PC, PlayStation, Politics, Science, Smartphones, Social Media, Software, Tablets, TV/Film/Video, Web Applications, Windows, Xbox
South by Southwest lasts 10 days during the month of March. The festival takes place in Austin, TX. SXSW is broken up into three sections: Interactive, Film, and Music. Throughout the festival, many innovations come to light and old ideas are reinvented. Most days’ events begin with panels at 9:30 or 11 AM and end […]
SXSW: 100 Year Starship Panel Explains How Interstellar Travel Can Affect Life On Earth
Raucous applause greeted guests of the 100 Year Starship panel at SXSW as they took the stage. It seems little introduction was necessary for this crowd to heap praise upon the panel, but the moderator Benjamin Palmer (of the interactive marketing firm The Barbarian Group) introduced the panelists anyway as: Dr. Mae Jemison (astronaut, first […]