Steve Perlman is ready to give you a personal cell phone signal that follows you from place to place, a signal that’s about 1,000 times faster than what you have today because you needn’t share it with anyone else. Perlman — the iconic Silicon Valley inventor best known for selling his web TV company to Microsoft …
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It’s been almost exactly one year since a bolide exploded in the air over Chelyabinsk in Russia. Just in time for the anniversary comes asteroid 2000 EM26, which will be giving our planet a close shave today. The Slooh space camera consortium will be tracking this cosmic flyby during a live show starting at 6 p.m. PT/9 p.m. ET.
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WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Dead Star Debris
This image of the debris of an exploded star – known as supernova remnant 1E 0102.2-7219, or “E0102” for short – features data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. E0102 is located about 190,000 light years away in the Small Magellanic Cloud, one of the nearest galaxies to the Milky Way. It was created when a star that was much more massive than the Sun exploded, an event that would have been visible from the Southern Hemisphere of the Earth over 1000 years ago.