Is a mysterious Planet Nine creating a slight tilt in the solar system?
Astronomers have known about a mysterious tilt in our solar system for decades, but that tilt has never been satisfactorily explained.The solar system formed about 4.5 billion years ago, when a spinning cloud of material collapsed into a disk, and forming a star and the planets orbiting around it in a plane, like a spinning record. The disk is remarkably flat, with only slight wobbles in the orbit of each planet relative to the line of the disk around the sun.But there's one problem. According ..>> view originalBest Windows apps this week
Two-hundred-and-three in a series. Welcome to this week's overview of the best apps, games and extensions released for Windows 10 on Windows Store in the past seven days. Microsoft has started to remove applications from Windows Store that don't have an age rating. While they should continue to work if you have installed them already on a device, updates and new downloads are not available until the developer or publisher specifies an age rating. As always, if I missed an app or game that has..>> view originalA new dinosaur species has been discovered in Australia
Paleontologists have discovered a new species of dinosaur in Australia. The wide-hipped, long-necked, four-legged plant-eater was about half the length of a basketball court, and its shoulders stood as high as the hoop. Dinosaur fossils in Australia are exceedingly rare, and this discovery could help scientists understand how these massive creatures spread across the planet millions of years ago. "There are entire lost worlds of dinosaurs waiting to be found." David Elliott, now the chairman of..>> view originalMicrosoft cloud annualized run rate hits $13bn in strong first quarter
reader comments 22 Microsoft posted revenue of $20.5 billion in the first quarter of its 2017 financial year, a negligible rise on the same quarter last year. Operating income was $5.2 billion, down 8 percent year on year, net income was $4.7 billion, down 4 percent, and earnings per share were $0.60, down 2 percent. As ever, Microsoft also offered alternative figures that book Windows 10 revenue up front instead of amortized over several years. Using that regime for both this year and la..>> view originalFirst Click: How much would you pay for the Nintendo Switch?
One of the most important of those is how much the Switch will cost. Pricing is always critical for games consoles, which are typically sold at low profit margins or losses in an attempt to attract enough users to make money back on software in the long run. Nintendo has often bucked that trend in the past to pursue profitability for the hardware itself, but the company may not have that luxury with the Switch: after the Wii U, it needs a hit. Until the Wii, every Nintendo home console launched..>> view originalNew US-Russian Crew Arrives at International Space Station
A Russian Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko nears the International Space Station ahead of docking in this still image from a video camera on the space ...>> view originalHow much screen time is right for your kids?
From iPad screen time to hours of watching TV, children are consuming media from an early age. To keep up with fast-changing technology in the digital era, the American Academy of Pediatrics has released updated guidelines for digital media use by young children. The recommendations vary by age group, and include the following advice: 0-5 years oldFor children younger than 24 months, avoid any digital media use with the exception of video-chattingFor children 18 to 24 months of age, you can int..>> view originalSamsung Looking to Gain Market Share In India During Q4 2016
Samsung Eletronics says it expects to increase its smartphone market share in India during the ongoing festive season, even though most online retailers are reporting a massive surge in sales of attractively-priced handsets from Chinese companies such ...>> view originalBattlefield 1 review: Satisfying chaos, solemn silence
“If history only remembers one in a thousand of us, then the future will be filled with stories of who we were and what we did. How we lived, how we fought, and how we died. When this is all over and the war is won, they will remember us.” These solemn lines close out Battlefield 1’s campaign, and it’s as bittersweet a note as I can think to start this review on. Total warfare Because the truth is we haven’t remembered. Not enough of us, anyway. To put a twist on a Churchill quote, “Never..>> view original
Thursday, October 27, 2016
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