] STORY HIGHLIGHTS Almost one-third of air travelers say they left on a portable electronic device during flight An upcoming report may lead to looser rules on such devices on planes Not under consideration: airborne use of cell phones for voice communication You left your cell phone on during a flight, didn’t you? Maybe it was accidental, or maybe it was out of sheer contempt for a rule you believe […]
Apple’s iOS 7 has been slammed on social media for being difficult to use Users complained about Android-style menus and updated app problems Many of the iOS 7 features are completely new, with some hidden away After thousands of Apple users struggled to download the latest iOS 7 operating system yesterday, conversation on social media has turned to how difficult the software is to use once it is successfully installed. […]
When U.N. weapons inspectors left their hotel to investigate claims of chemical weapons use in the suburbs of Damascus in late August, most of the experts travelling in the convoy of armoured SUVs were not United Nations staff at all. In fact, nine of the 12 were inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). The OPCW is the implementing body of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), […]
Japan has launched the first in a new generation of space rockets, hoping the design will make missions more affordable. The Epsilon rocket is about half the size of Japan’s previous generation of space vehicles, and uses artificial intelligence to perform safety checks. Japan’s space agency Jaxa says the Epsilon cost $37m (£23m) to develop, half the cost of its predecessor. Epsilon launched from south-western Japan in the early afternoon. […]
Leaked report reveals the world is warming at half the rate claimed by IPCC in 2007 Scientists accept their computers ‘may have exaggerated’ A leaked copy of the world’s most authoritative climate study reveals scientific forecasts of imminent doom were drastically wrong. The Mail on Sunday has obtained the final draft of a report to be published later this month by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the […]
In 1519, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan launched the expedition that completed the first circumnavigation of the globe. And so humanity learned the full extent of its world. This week, we learned from Science magazine that NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft — currently the man-made object farthest from Earth — crossed a boundary of the solar system and entered interstellar space sometime last summer. Like Magellan’s voyage, Voyager’s achievement is a major […]
The US space agency (Nasa) is about to launch its latest mission to the Moon. The unmanned LADEE probe is set to lift-off from the Wallops rocket facility on the US east coast at 23:27 local time (03:27 GMT on Saturday). Its $280m (£180m) mission is to investigate the very tenuous atmosphere that surrounds the lunar body. It will also try to get some insights on the strange behaviour of […]
Virgin Galactic’s SS2 as become the highest commercial winged vehicle and it flexed its ‘feather system’ for the first time The spacecraft was propelled 69,000 feet above the Earth’s surface after a 20 second rocket burn to reach a top speed of Mach 1.43 The spacecraft was piloted by Mark Stucky and Clint Nichols The company said it is ‘on track’ to offer commercial flights into space to members of […]
Digital technology has dramatically changed the way we work, making it easier to connect with clients and partners and share information on an unprecedented scale. But some companies now complain that as a result, their younger employees lack the essential skill of being able to pick up the phone and talk. Employees of the so-called millennial generation prefer to email, text or use social media to communicate – fine for […]
