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New Museum and Nokia Bell Labs to support art and technology

February 28, 2017

AN - The New Museum in New York has announced a new partnership with Nokia Bell Labs, the American research and scientific development arm of the Finnish phone company. The news means that artists and designers...

Man jailed for hitting woman with drone

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February 28, 2017

Art and Technology

BBC - Paul Skinner was found guilty of reckless endangerment, by a judge at the Seattle Municipal Court.It is believed to be the first time a drone pilot has been given a jail sentence.The incident happened dur...

Jupiter looks like an abstract painting in NASA Juno image

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February 28, 2017

Art and Technology

CNET - NASA's Juno spacecraft arrived at Jupiter in the middle of 2016 after launching back in 2011. It's still in the middle of its mission to collect data on Jupiter and its moons. Lucky for us, some of that...

SpaceX announces plan to launch tourists around the Moon

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February 28, 2017

Art and Technology

DW - Private aerospace firm SpaceX said on Monday that it plans to fly two tourists to the moon in late 2018. This is the first time such a venture has been attempted since the US Apollo program last sent astro...

“Art” at the Science Museum: ‘Da Vinci — The Genius’ in Boston

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February 21, 2017

Art and Technology

Hyperallergic - To be clear: there is no actual art by Leonardo at Da Vinci — The Genius, currently on view at the Museum of Science, Boston. The show consists of models of inventions handcrafted from Leonardo’...

Flying Observatory Detects Atomic Oxygen in Martian Atmosphere

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February 21, 2017

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NASA - An instrument onboard the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) detected atomic oxygen in the atmosphere of Mars for the first time since the last observation 40 years ago. These atom...

What If the Internet Stopped Working For A Day?

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February 15, 2017

Art and Technology

BBC - Jeff Hancock likes to give his Stanford University students weekend assignments that let them experience concepts discussed in class for themselves. Before 2008, he would sometimes challenge his students ...

7 Perfect Video Games Everyone Should Play at Least Once

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February 14, 2017

Art and Technology

PC - It's 2017, and video games have been around commercially now for almost 46 years. Over that time they've changed from single-screen games with primitive graphics into almost photorealistic virtual worlds f...

How to Star in a Virtual Reality Movie

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February 14, 2017

Art and Technology

PC - If you're not into video games, you don't need a virtual reality headset, right? Wrong, according to a burgeoning group of filmmakers and performance artists. Their creations, many of which were screene...

Robots: a 500-year quest to make machines human

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February 14, 2017

Art and Technology

DW - Instead of focusing on how they're made, "Robots," the London Science Museum's new blockbuster exhibition, looks into why humans have always been obsessed with creating an automated version of themselves. ...