Video: How Curiosity made it to Mars in one piece

If you thought Curiosity landing on Mars was pretty cool, check out this video that shows the extreme engineering and incredible planning that went into sending the rover to Mars. What's more, the computer that is running Curiosity is a heavily modified Apple Airport Extreme. That's right, a modified WiFi router! Based off a PowerPC 750 (PowerPC G3) chip clocked at around 200MHz with 256MB RAM topped off with 2GB of flash storage, how brilliant is that.

Source: NASA JPLNews

BlackBerry PlayBook 4G LTE now available in Canada

RIM's new BlackBerry PlayBook with 4G-LTE is now available from most Canadian carriers such as Bell, Rogers and Telus. Most offer the device outright for $550 and owners can decide on their access plan. In terms of specs, the new PlayBook offers incremental improvements over last year's model but is only available in 32GB configuration with the following specs.

1.5 GHz dual core processor

1 GB RAM

Wi-Fi: 802.11 a/b/g/n

USB: Micro USB port

HDMI: Micro HDMI port

Bluetooth: Bluetooth v2.1 + EDR

LTE (700, 1700 MHz), HSPA+ (2100, 1900, 1700, 800, 900 MHz)

7" LCD display, 1024x600 screen resolution

32GB Storage Capacity

5 MP with 1080p HD and 3x digital zoom / 3 MP front facing camera with 1080p HD and 2.5x digital zoom

Stay tuned for a full review of the new BlackBerry PlayBook 4G LTE.

Siri Showdown: Google intros Voice Search for iOS

Google has submitted its Voice Search application to the Apple App store. Once it is approved and made available to iPhone and iPod Touch users it will give them another voice-enabled search application aside from Siri (which is getting a lot smarter in its iOS 6 iteration coming this Fall).

Update on Wednesday, August 8, 2012 at 10:28PM by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

The feature is available now on the Google Search App and users can search by voice as well as using the camera. There doesn't seem to be a voice response yet but you do get the results on the screen like regular search results. Stay tuned for a more in depth look at this feature.

Google Launches Knowledge Graph in Canada

 By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Google users in Canada will be able to access Knowledge Graph, a new feature that enables you to search for things, people or places that Google knows about—landmarks, celebrities, cities, sports teams, buildings, geographical features, movies, celestial objects, works of art and more. This is the future of Search and helps users by pushing forward information that they might not have thought relevant.

 This is a critical first step towards building the next generation of search, which taps into the collective intelligence of the web and understands the world a bit more like people do. Below is a detailed overview on knowledge graph from Google.

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