NASA Resurrects a Dead Satellite to Hunt Asteroids

NASA Resurrects a Dead Satellite to Hunt Asteroids

For nearly three years, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) satellite was one of our most potent tools in the search for asteroids, discovering 33,500 of them (more than a dozen of which are potential impact threats) before being placed into hibernation in 2011. But with a new-found interest in asteroid mining, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab has decided to fire the old girl back up for another round of space rock spotting.

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Wise CF Duo bring Mirroring Storage to your DSLR

Wise CF Duo bring Mirroring Storage to your DSLR

Not sure if this maybe the killer we were all waiting for but this new CF Duo from Wise could definitively become your future best buddy whenever you are shooting something that you can’t afford to loose! Indeed this nice little UDMA CF Card, available in 32 or 64GB comes with an handy hardware Mirroring features (RAID1) that will instantly duplicate all your pictures to another partition and protect your shoots just in case. Unlike the average CFs, these CF Duo are in fact a pair of 16GB or 32GB Cards mounted in a single unit that give you the flexibility to be used in RAID0 or RAID1. Both cards will be available next month (July) in Japan at a price yet announced.

Wise CF Duo Speed
RAID0 : Read 60MB/sec, Write 50MB/sec
RAID1 : Read 30MB/sec, Write 25MB/sec

Scientists Discover Millions of Hidden Black Holes Eating Hot DOGs [Space]

Scientists have detected millions of previously hidden supermassive black holes surrounding us, some of them busily eating a thousand of newly discovered “extremely bright and extremely rare” galaxies called hot DOGs (Dust-Obscured Galaxies). Astronomy is fun! More »