A blip or a breakthrough?
SCIENTISTS around the globe are excited as the world’s biggest atom smasher, best known for revealing the Higgs boson - or ‘God particle’ - four years ago, starts whirring again to churn out data that may confirm cautious hints of an entirely new particle.
Next stop Mars for SpaceX - in 2018
ELON Musk, the billionaire founder and chief executive of SpaceX, plans to send a Dragon capsule to land on Mars as early as 2018 - a big first step toward his ultimate goal of colonising the ‘red planet’.
Saving the Bahamas
Young scientists offer future solutions
WASTE management is weighing on the minds of young Bahamian scientists.
Design flaws ground ‘Zero’
OVER the years, Nintendo has recruited an assortment of outside developers to try to revive the “Star Fox” franchise. Now the duty falls to Platinum Games, best known for gonzo free-for-alls like “Bayonetta” and “MadWorld”. The resulting reboot, “Star Fox Zero”, falls far short of either company’s best work.
Solar-powered plane crosses Pacific
A SOLAR-powered plane on a mission to fly around the world landed in California at the weekend, completing a risky, three-day flight across a great expanse of the Pacific Ocean.
Tech Talk
Sea life centre using alternative energy
THE Alaska SeaLife Centre in Seward has announced that 98 per cent of its heating and cooling requirements are fulfilled by alternative energy: heat extracted from ocean water in Resurrection Bay.
12-inch MacBook updated
THE 12-inch MacBook is a love-it-or-hate-it laptop. It seems to inspire either fierce loyalty or intense derision.
Tech Talk
Moon mission camera up for auction
• A CAMERA lens used by the commander of the 1971 Apollo 15 moon mission on the lunar surface and in orbit is up for auction.
Amazon’s stand-alone streaming targets Netflix
AMAZON is taking on Netflix and Hulu with its own stand-alone video streaming service, just weeks before Netflix raises prices for longtime subscribers.
How to clean up your online reputation
MESSY party photos, offensive tweets, pepper spraying student protesters ... sometimes, you just want a makeover when it comes to your online presence. And for a hefty price tag, you can.
THE ROBOTS ARE COMING
Why ‘chatbots’ are your new friends
USERS of Facebook’s Messenger app, Microsoft’s Skype and Canada’s Kik can expect to find new automated assistants offering information and services at a variety of businesses via online texting in the coming months.
Tech Talk: April 13
• WHATSAPP is using a powerful form of encryption to protect the security of photos, videos, group chats and voice calls in addition to the text messages sent by its more than a billion users around the globe.
Demand for the new Tesla e-car takes off
DEMAND for Tesla’s new Model 3 has been extraordinary, with consumers pre-ordering about $13.7 billion worth of the electric sedans nearly two years before they go on sale.
Facebook focuses on live video feature
FACEBOOK is rearranging the notification panel on its mobile apps in an effort to broaden the audience creating, watching and reacting to live video on its social network.
Technology on the menu for Bahamas entrepreneur
FRED Lightbourn, owner of The Poop Deck at Sandyport, has been in the restaurant business for 30 years so has a wealth of experience of customers’ dining tastes, likes and dislikes.
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