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What if Earth had rings like Saturn

In the Cassini images Earth and the moon appear as mere dots — Earth a pale blue and the moon a stark white, visible between…

Rarely seen back of the Hoover Dam

This is a rarely seen back of the Hoover Dam before it filled with water 1936. Hoover Dam is expected to be one of the last…

Venus is nearly identical in size to Earth

Venus, Mars and Earth, three out of the four inner or ‘rocky’ planets of the Solar System, have a lot in common – a solid…

This Day in Tech History - Windows 95 was launched this day [August 24, 1995]

Microsoft launched Windows 95 on August 24, 1995. The Windows 95 release included a commercial featuring The Rolling Stones’ 1981 single “Start Me Up” (a reference…

The entire British Concorde fleet in one picture on January 21, 1986, at London Heathrow Airport

Here is a patented supersonic aircraft from Airbus.

Event of the Day - Internaut Day [August 23, 1991]

On August 23, 1991, 25 years ago today, the World Wide Web was open to everyone. The term internaut is made from a combination of…

This Week in Patents - August 15 - August 21

Disney invents multimedia paper books

Douglas Adams, the author of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy”, predicted eBooks way back in 1993. Since, the launch of Kindle in 2007, it…

Facebook plans to go ultra-local

Facebook is the most popular social network worldwide. In the second quarter of 2016, Facebook reached 1.71 billion monthly active users. It has been predicted…

Customized Drones: Sending the right drone for a job

That Amazon will soon deliver packages through drones is old news. What’s new though is that Amazon intends to build customized drones on the fly to…