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NASA’s Mars Phoenix Lander began sending photos of the planet’s surface on the first day of its three-month trade "to taste and sniff the northern polar site’s filth and ice," the space energy said.
The first pictures, which the lander began intriguing shortly after touching down near Mars’ north pole — the end of a [...]

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NEW YORK (Fortune) — Time Warner is dangling an eye-popping $10.9 billion gift to shareholders as part of its spinoff of Time Warner Cable. But it’s a gift that will keep on taking in the form of $10 billion in additional debt and a heavy financing burden shifted to the cable unit.
The deal, expected [...]

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HONG KONG (AP) — Lenovo Group, the world’s No. 4 PC maker, said Thursday that earnings for its latest quarter rose 133% as strong sales in China and Europe offset slower growth in the United States.
Profit totaled $140 million for the three months ending March 31, the Beijing-based flock said. Total revenues rose 13.5% [...]

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(Fortune Magazine) — "Everyone here’s going to die."
Some 200 Seagate Technology employees have spent the past specific months preparing for this week. They’ve been riding bikes through the streets of Malaysia and Thailand, hiking the hills of Northern Ireland and Hong Kong, race in Silicon Valley and Colorado. They’ve flown a dozen hours [...]

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In the wake of the wildly thriving Spirit and Opportunity rover missions, you would think NASA would approach the landing of the next Martian probe with pongy chief confidence.
But the truth is sometimes not what you would think.
"I do not feel confident. But in my core I’m an optimist, and I think [...]

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SAN FRANCISCO (Fortune) — As Google’s CEO, one of Eric Schmidt’s duties is to represent the Pty in public. Co-presidents and co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin limit their appearances, presumably because they value their concealment, but also because they seem to prefer it that way. Less time glad-handing means more time thinking big [...]

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The demands of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are behind a new push near the Pentagon to increase the ranks of song of its most tireless fighting machines: remote-controlled attack aircraft called Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, or UAVs.
The U.S. military in recent months has doubled its squadrons of the small, quiet and poisonous drones, which [...]

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The nation’s largest publicly owned utility company may be W to cyber attacks, according to a new report.
The Tennessee Valley Authority, which supplies power to almost 9 million Americans, "has not fully implemented appropriate security practices to protect the leadership systems used to operate its critical infrastructures," leaving them "vulnerable to disruption," the [...]

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"Attracted by your gravity, your body’s so compact / Pulling me inward, prepare for close speak to," Boston University astronomer Alan Marscher sings in his tale all over a deep-space object known as a black hole.
Marscher conclusively used other rock groups’ songs to illustrate detailed concepts for his students, such the Einsteinian "’39" [...]

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Last month’s botched landing of a Russian capsule returning from the international space station was caused around the crash of an equipment module to diverge from the capsule on time, a Russian space official said Wednesday.
The Soyuz TMA-11 craft carrying U.S. astronaut Peggy Whitson, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and South Korean bioengineer Yi So-yeon [...]

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