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Day: November 13, 2014

Rosetta mission: The first man made probe to land on a comet

This wednesday, the probe called Philae that emerged from the Rosetta spacecraft managed to land on the 4km-wide "ice mountain" known as 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet. The event was broadcasted live from the European Space Agency. The descent and the landing were smoothly, as expected. Here's a video about the mission: The Rosetta space mission, which includes the laboratory probe/robot Philae, aims to collect samples from the surface of the...

Saygus V² – the king of smartphones

Saygus is a company focused on manufacturing smartphones in United States, a company that stayed under the radar in recent years. Now, it has launched a smartphone that was unanimously called the king of smart-phones: the Saygus V². This is a new smartphone created with high end components and materials, but with a less rigid design. It runs Android 4.4 KitKat and it is "dual-boot capable." This is Saygus V². V² has many interesting features,...