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Monthly Archives: October 2010

Shuttle’s leaks fixed in time for Wednesday launch

The space shuttle Discovery and its STS-133 crew will deliver the Permanent Multipurpose Module, packed with supplies and critical spare parts, as well as Robonaut 2, the dexterous humanoid astronaut helper, to the International Space Station. The space shuttle Discovery is on track to launch Wednesday after engineers successfully repaired two minor gas leaks on the spacecraft, NASA officials say.

Turkey lifts its ban on YouTube

Turkey lifts its ban on YouTube  
     

Turkey lifts its ban on YouTube, two years after it blocked access to the website because of videos deemed insulting to the country's founder.  
     

http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/technolo

Neowin Giveaway: Emsisoft Online Armor & Anti-Malware

Neowin Giveaway: Emsisoft Online Armor & Anti-Malware
   

Emsisoft has teamed up with Neowin to do a final round of giveaways to round of the October tenth anniversary celebrations. Up for grabs are 50 licenses for Online Armor Premium Firewall 4….

Xbox Live has more subscribers than Comcast

Xbox Live has more subscribers than Comcast
   

The traditional means of obtaining video in the house has been changing day by day, and Microsoft has been at the forefront of the change with Xbox Live. Sony placed a bet on the physical Blu-ray for…

The Shoot: Playstation 3 Review

The Shoot: Playstation 3 Review
   

With the PlayStation Move a little over a month old, there have been few games to take advantage of the motion controller so far. As purchasers of PlayStation Move will know, The Shoot demo came bundled with the…

WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe Halloween Giveaway

WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe Halloween Giveaway
   

Digiarty Software is hosting a Halloween treat for Neowin readers –free get full-functional WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe from Oct. 29th to Nov. 4th. Both Windows and Mac editions are availa…

Comet Hartley 2 looks like .. a pickle?

Twelve radar images of the nucleus of Comet Hartley 2, taken by the Arecibo Observatory from Oct. 25 to 27, 2010.When a NASA probe takes a close look at Comet Hartley 2 next week, it will find the icy wanderer to be curiously pickle-shaped, new radar images reveal.

Mysterious Mars gullies likely carved by CO2

These gullies on a Martian sand dune resemble features on Earth that are carved by water. However, they were likely formed by processes related to the winter buildup of carbon-dioxide frost, according to a new study. The top photo was taken in March 2008 (Martian autumn), the middle one in July 2009 (summer) and the bottom photo in October 2010 (winter). All were taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.Some of the mysterious gullies on Mars are likely carved by frozen carbon dioxide, not melting water, a new study finds.

The ‘monster’ behind Chupacabra mystery

Sightings abound of a four-legged, hairless, fanged monster that kills and sucks the blood, and sometimes milk, from livestock in the United States and Latin America. Its name chupacabra literally means “goat sucker.”

Cargo ship bring supplies to space station

Russian news agencies say a cargo ship has docked with the International Space Station, bringing 2.5 tons of food, water, oxygen and fuel for the orbiting laboratory and its U.S.-Russian crew.