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Science never takes a holiday -- the storied Hubble space telescope took its one millionth image over July 4th, reports NASA, eyeballing a planet orbiting a nearby star for signs of water in its atmosphere.
Expected to bring $2 million at auction.
Vintage flying car offered at auction • reghardware
Despite being quite the antique, this fine, four-fendered friend is still in full road-worthy condition and comes with the original GEN 11 number plates as seen in the 1968 film based on Ian Fleming's novel.
STScI runs the routine science data processing pipeline and archiving for Kepler data ... they have identified about 1200 planet candidates in all, including one system with six planets.
"We went from zero to 68 Earth-sized planet candidates and zero to 54 candidates in the habitable zone - a region where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface. Some candidates could even have moons with liquid water," said William Borucki of NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., the Kepler mission’s science principal investigator. "Five of the planetary candidates are both near Earth-size and orbit in the habitable zone of their parent stars."
Here is a pretty infomative article about the "instant personalization" setting that showed up last April in Facebook.
How to Opt Out of Facebook's Instant Personalization - NYTimes.com
It is a potentially powerful idea – Facebook wants to uncover all these interests and predilections and let us share them with our friends, whether we are at Facebook or somewhere else, in ways that could deepen personal connections and help us discover cool and interesting information.
But there is a price paid in privacy. Facebook deems these “connections” to interests and businesses and content to be public information — along with your name, profile picture, gender and friend list. And it intends to make them very public through new “social plugins” and “instant personalization.”
If you like the idea of broadcasting which articles, bands and restaurants you like, you are in luck. But if you would rather keep your personal preferences private, beware. The instructions on how to reverse it are below, after the jump.
