Sorin Adam Matei
Analysis, research, maps, and essays from Sorin Adam Matei.
When Jeff Bezos announced that he would build a 50,000-satellite space data center, Musk immediately plussed with a million-satellite call. The space cowboy drama aside, the prize is real. Data-in-space may finally give the space economy its first real reason to exist,…
Suborbital tourism, which costs hundreds of thousands of dollars for a few minutes of levitation, is a definite waste of money. The experience is giddy, yet inconsequential, since the tourist does not get anything he or she would not get from a…
Little did @stefmara Twitter user and Neil Monday know that their pictures and videos of the space shuttle Discovery launch from Kennedy Space center, which they captured on their Iphones while flying from Orlando, will make world wide news. Here it’s one…
Image by NASA Goddard Photo and Video via Flickr The end of a planet captured by Hubble… The hottest known planet in the Milky Way galaxy may also be its shortest-lived world. The doomed planet is being eaten by its parent star,…
Buzztracker – World News – 2007-09-08
Imagine a computing environment which interacts with objects physically. Put a camera in it and the pictures are downloaded on the fly. Microsoft says it has unlocked the mystery of ambiental, portable, devices. Microsoft unveils revolutionary device – Today: Money – MSNBC.com…
a version of this article was published in the Romanian language national daily “Evenimentul Zilei” Dresden, one of the former East German cities reunited with the Federal Republic of Germany in 1990 has been finely restored over the past 15 years. A…