Ask.com has migrated off of their mapping platform and onto Microsoft's Virtual Earth platform. If you navigate to maps.ask.com you will now see Virtual Earth (or MapPoint Web Service for those who don't have supported browsers or JavaScript is disabled).
The LiveSide Blog reported that Chris Pendleton,Virtual Earth Evangelist posted the news that Ask.com has now dropped their own mapping product for Microsoft's Virtual Earth. Virtual Earth can now be found on Ask Maps, Ask City, and within Ask's search results as Smart Answers.
A timely new exhibition of works by Buckminster Fuller at the Whitney Museum is likely to stir waves of nostalgia for those who miss the architecture of the cold war.
A Palestinian man plowed a construction vehicle into cars, buses and pedestrians, killing at least three people and wounding at least 45 before he was shot dead by an off-duty soldier
Astronomers have discovered those pretty Northern Lights generate an awful ear-piercing series of chirs and whistles that's emitted into space: Scientists have known about the radiation since the 1970s.
... The amounts involved have grown so immense, and the eventual grim fate of the dollar has grown so obvious, that foreign central bankers are now looking at each other, trying to figure out who will head for the exits first.
I remember reading Childhood’s End a while back and getting to the point where humanity didn’t have to work for a lot of and people became absorbers of media. It made me think of how much time I spent watching TV, playing games, listening to podcasts, etc.
Wow, here’s a cool firewinder outdoor lighting that runs on pure wind power! Firewinder® is a sculpturally designed outdoor light, which harnesses the wind no matter from which direction it blows creating a beautiful upward spiralling light - every time the wind blows.
On a bluff overlooking the Rappahannock River, 50 miles south of the capital city that bears his name, archaeologists have unearthed a site that provides what they call the most detailed view into George Washington's formative years: his childhood home and, likely, the objects of his youth.
A new trailer for The Day the Earth Stood Still was released by 20th Century Fox this week. The remake of the 1951 classic hits theaters December 12, 2008, and stars Keanu Reeves as Klaatu, an alien whose arrival on our planet triggers a global upheaval.
The Hubble Space Telescope took this image of the outer edge of a shockwave generated in our galaxy by an exploding supernova, and witnessed on earth in the year 1006 AD. The entire diameter of this massive galactic ripple is about 60 light years, and it’s still expanding at a speed of 6 million miles per hour.
newVideoPlayer("/constellation2_gizmodo.flv", 478, 290,""); The NASA 2009 Astronaut Candidate Class recruitment—for the first mission to the Moon in four decades—may be over, but if you didn't send...
I've never seen Keanu so Keanu-y. In trying to take on the role of an alien, he's somehow become an exaggerated, even more lifeless version of himself, and it's very, very strange to behold. If standard Keanu was the final boss of a video game, this trailer's Keanu is like the super powerful, insanely difficult version that emerges after you beat the normal one.
Article in Science magazine urges combining Nat'l Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration, U.S. Geological Survey into one agency.
Even in geology, it's not often a date gets revised by 500 million years. But University of Florida geologists say they have found strong evidence that a half-dozen major basins in India were formed a billion or more years ago, making them at least 500 million years older than commonly thought.
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 02, 2008 - NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, located in Greenbelt, Maryland, has the lead on many exciting space missions launching in the next year.
“Civilization killers” are one thing, but when it comes to earth-bound objects, smaller rocks matter too.
While it’s highly unlikely any of us will actually travel to the moon, you can send your name there aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. The LRO is being sent to orbit the moon to scout for landing sites, potential resources, measure radiation levels and demonstrate new technology.
LOS ANGELES, July 5 (Xinhua) -- U.S. scientists have urged ...
Je kent ze wel van die wereldbollen die tevens dienen als opslagplaats voor sterke drank. Deze werelbollen zijn straks natuurlijk not-done als iedereen een 2d hologram van Google Earth in zijn huis heeft.
IT'S been a contrasting week for renewable energy advocates on opposite sides of the Atlantic. The UK announced plans to make wind power in its coastal waters "what the Gulf of Arabia is for the oil industry".
As part of the Major Spoilers 2nd Birthday Celebration, Major Spoilers presents some of the “lost” conversations that you’ve never heard before. 10 days of daily podcasts that you’ve been asking for! Recorded on Earth-28: Rodrigo enlightens everyone on the fourth edition of the very popular Dungeons and Dragons role playing game.
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