To start, Russia RadioAstron telescope finally ceiling space with his radio eye set

Taking into account all the nostalgia that we was swimming in recent times have space, it is somewhat appropriate that a time of cold war telescope is gear up her maiden voyage after more than three decades to make development (and delays). The Russian Mission, known as RadioAstron, will finally reality on Monday when a radio telescope from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome before in orbit around 350,000 kilometers from the Earth in the fast. Just ten metres in width, this is craft antenna small compared to other radio ' areas, but its reach can be extended dramatically in combination with signals from those on the ground. This technique called interferometry, is the largest telescope ever built, the a range almost 30 times the Earth diameter and allows RadioAstron capture to interstellar images in 10,000 times the resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope effectively create. However, it remains a large Hürde--as the probe collects data about 144 Mbit per second, it must constantly transmitted information about antennas on the ground. Problem is, it is only an antenna, the RadioAstron of signals received and, if others will be built soon, a healthy piece could be lost its observations. How do you say "Buzz-Kill" in Russian?

Pandora radio HTML5 redesign hands-on

Earlier this week Pandora announced that it would finally fall his long-standing support for Flash in favor of HTML5. This step is a piece of a great redesign for the site, start the roll-out to subscribers by the Pandora one a (the $36 / year premium version) into pieces, as part of a limited trial period before the entire massive user base the service be made available.

The timing could of course been more ideal. A day after the announcement, Spotify grabbed the online music industry by introducing soon the attention after formally in the United States. It is right off the bat, but keep in mind that these two services are not really direct competitors, despite the as some, it could spin. Spotify is an all-you-can-eat subscription service, so that it is more similar to a Rhapsody and Napster. Pandora, is based on the other hand largely around passive music discovery. You log in, you give an artist and let the music come to you. This new design takes the user experience to a whole new level. Look our impressions below.Pandora redesign hands-on