NPR NASA’s On Alert For Big Scary Asteroids. What About Smaller Ones?NPREarth is under constant bombardment from asteroids and comets. A recent reminder of that occurred one year ago today when an asteroid plunged into Earth’s atmosphere, exploding over the…
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Latest Tool to Fight Cancer Is a Crowdsourcing 'Asteroids'-Like Mobile Game – Singularity Hub
Latest Tool to Fight Cancer Is a Crowdsourcing ‘Asteroids‘-Like Mobile GameSingularity HubThey’ve gussied the DNA microarrays up as “Element Alpha” and invited video gamers to navigate their way through it to earn maximum points while simultaneously shooting down asteroids. “Racking…
Potentially hazardous asteroid 2000 EM26 zipping by Earth on close approach … – Phys.Org
Potentially hazardous asteroid 2000 EM26 zipping by Earth on close approach …Phys.OrgOn February 17th a near-Earth asteroid (NEA), 2000 EM26, with an estimated diameter of three football fields (270 meters) and traveling at approximately 27,000 mph (12.37 km/s), will come…
ICANN Opens Comment Period To Allow New gTLD Registries To Register … – TheDomains.com
ICANN Opens Comment Period To Allow New gTLD Registries To Register …TheDomains.comICANN opened up a comment period yesterday to allow new gTLD registries to allocate the 100 domain names it is allowed to allocate to itself to other than trademark…
How Nuclear Bombs Could Save Earth from Killer Asteroids – Space.com
Space.com How Nuclear Bombs Could Save Earth from Killer AsteroidsSpace.comThe most destructive weapon humanity has ever developed could help our species avoid going the way of the dinosaurs. Pretty much any asteroid that poses a threat to Earth can be…
NTIA wary of gTLD explosion – FierceGovernmentIT
MyHostNews.com NTIA wary of gTLD explosionFierceGovernmentIT4 letter (.pdf) to ICANN Chairman Stephen Cocker, obtained by news blog Domain Incite, NTIA Administrator Larry Strickling asks the group to heed advice from the United States and other governments to implement consumer safeguards…
Internet Pioneer And ICANN Chairman Of The Board To Keynote Black Hat Asia … – Dark Reading
Internet Pioneer And ICANN Chairman Of The Board To Keynote Black Hat Asia …Dark ReadingDr. Crocker has been involved with the Internet since its inception. While a graduate student at UCLA, he was part of the team that developed the…
Intellectual property warning for brands ahead of ICANN web domain rollout – The Drum
MyHostNews.com (press release) Intellectual property warning for brands ahead of ICANN web domain rolloutThe DrumWhen ICANN decided to open up the web to new gTLDs it received nearly 2,000 requests from companies, brands and organisation trying to secure related domains.…
Asteroids, comets threaten humanity: protection system is much-needed – physicist – The Voice of Russia
Space.com Asteroids, comets threaten humanity: protection system is much-needed – physicistThe Voice of RussiaThe meteorite, which exploded in the sky above Russia’s Chelyabinsk on February 15, 2013, has confirmed the need to create a protection system from asteroids and comets,…
ICANN CEO to Meet with Chinese Internet Industry Leaders in Beijing – ag-IP-news Agency
ICANN CEO to Meet with Chinese Internet Industry Leaders in Beijingag-IP-news AgencyBEIJING, China – Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) President and Chief Executive Officer Fadi Chehadé has arrived in Beijing for several days of meetings with leaders…