Earlier this year the NASA crew fielded YouTubers questions live from space and now YouTube is headed galaxy-ward once again.  Yesterday YouTube announced their new YouTube Space Lab project with Lenovo.  They’re asking students, ages 14 to 18, to submit videos explaining ideas for science experiments for space and the winning ideas will be performed and live streamed from the International Space Station.


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YouTube and personal technology company Lenovo have teamed up to launch a worldwide initiative for 14 to 18 year-old high school students. Joined by space agencies including NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the initiative, YouTube Space Lab, invites students to design a science experiment that can be performed in [...]

Read More: YouTube and Lenovo team up to live-stream high school experiments from space

YouTube and personal technology company Lenovo have teamed up to launch a worldwide initiative for 14 to 18 year-old high school students. Joined by space agencies including NASA, the European Space...

Read More: YouTube and Lenovo team up to live-stream high school experiments from space

Social gaming development studio RockYou recently announced its release of Galactic Allies, an RTS game for Facebook. Galactic Allies was developed by 3 Blokes, an Australian-based team owned by RockYou. Can RockYou's game hit a trajectory? More after the jump.

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Google promoted one Android "reference device" (phone) in 2010 and 2011. The 2011 reference device was the Nexus S made by Samsung. It was the first Android phone to feature NFC (Near Field Communications), a front-facing camera and run Android OS 2.3 (Gingerbread). This past July, it also added the distinction of being the first and last Android phone to go into space on the final space shuttle mission.


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The social gaming market is without doubt the new buzz in the world of gaming. The top companies in the social market have launched games which have millions of users and million in monthly revenue. However, most of the successful companies in the space are either totally new companies like Zynga or casual gaming companies like Popcap games or King.com. Only a small handful of developers & publishers established on other gaming platforms (consoles, MMO, etc.) have had any success in the soci [...]

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After a false start last night, the free Skype for iPad app is now available in the iTunes App StoreSkype for iPad is Available. Oops! It Disappeared (Social Times)Skype 1.0 for iPad (Skype Garage)Skype for iPad (iTunes App Store)I installed it on an iPad 2 and am unimpressed so far. Here's why.Skype for iPhone runs on an iPad. Granted, it does not scale to the iPad's large display without pixelation. But, it runs fine on the iPad. The new iPad specific version of the app does not add any functi [...]

Read More: Skype for iPad Initial Impression: Space Wasting UI. But, Users Are Happy

As we reported earlier today, UK-based social search service DataSift has secured $6m in funding to expand its Twitter-sanctioned social data search platform for power users and developers who want to create complex searches across the social Web.As a demo of the platform, DataSift has just launched a rather cool Web app called DataSift Invaders. It's like Space Invaders but powered by Twitter-related data such as sentiment analysis and rankings from the likes of Klout and PeerIndex.Here&# [...]

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Let's stop being so egotistical about Earth for a second. I mean, sure, we all enjoy living on the planet best capable of sustaining carbon-based life forms and, yeah, our ecosystem is varied and beautiful, providing us with aesthetic wonder and myriad, incredible species to admire but — do we ever stop to appreciate other neighbors in this vast cosmic suburb we call the Milky Way?No, we don't. Or not often enough at least. And what a shame that is.Luckily for all of u [...]

Read More: The Digital Age and the Space Age Combine with Orbit(Film)

During most of my entire life time the United States has been putting men and women in to space. Tomorrow will be the beginning of the end of that era with the final Space Shuttle launch at 11:24 EDT. As a child I was free to watch the Apollo mission launches when they were on TV, but now as a working adult, other demands of my time make it difficult to be sure I am able to watch the launch on TV. Fortunately, for those who have Android and iOS devices you will be able to watch the launch live p [...]

Read More: Watch The Final Space Shuttle Launch On Your Mobile Device

During most of my entire life time the United States has been putting men and women in to space. Tomorrow will be the beginning of the end of that era with the final Space Shuttle launch at 11:24 EDT. As a child I was free to watch the Apollo mission launches when they were on TV, but now as a working adult, other demands of my time make it difficult to be sure I am able to watch the launch on TV. Fortunately, for those who have Android and iOS devices you will be able to watch the launch live p [...]

Read More: Watch The Final Space Shuttle Launch On Your Mobile Device