Archive for December 15th, 2011

NASA designing harpoon to capture comet samples (video)

Scientists are developing a harpoon that would blast out of a spacecraft and collect samples from a comet hurtling by.

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NASA designing harpoon to capture comet samples (video)

Remains of the Day: Protest too much

Google preps its Siri competitor. Time thinks very, very different. And apparently developers don’t like it when the U.S.

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Remains of the Day: Protest too much

100 years–and counting–at the South Pole (photos)

A century after explorer Roald Amundsen arrived there, the South Pole is a hub for scientific exploration.

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100 years–and counting–at the South Pole (photos)

Chrome, Cloud Print finally get a proper handshake

Google may be all about the cloud, but that doesn’t mean the company is ignoring the dead tree business. Cloud Print now offers saving, sharing, and more remote printing options than before, and comes fully integrated in to Chrome.

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Chrome, Cloud Print finally get a proper handshake

2011 App Gems

In our last podcast we discussed our annual Editors’ Choice Awards–awards Macworld presents to the year’s best Mac-related software and hardware. But our praise doesn’t stop there.

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2011 App Gems