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Russia just announced that it is sending humans to the Moon humans to the Moon ' Before 2030, Russia plans to land its first cosmonauts on the Moon, and Europe wants a piece of the action. They’re a little late for the great space race of the ’60s, but the mission is an admirable push for the re-ignited interest in manned deep-space travel. On Tuesday, at a space and technology conference in Moscow, the head of Roscosmos Energia – Russia’s version of NASA – announced: “A manned flight to the Moon and lunar landing is planned for 2029.” And the European Space Agency (ESA), who made history last year by landing the first ever spacecraft on a comet, is teaming up. “We have an ambition to have European astronauts on the Moon,” Bérengère Houdou, who is the head of the lunar exploration group at ESA’s European Space Research and Technology Centre,  recently told BBC News . “There are currently discussion at international level going on for broad cooperation on how to
Get Set! Mark Zuckerberg Is Coming To IIT Delhi In 2 Weeks Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will hold a Townhall Question and Answer session at IIT-Delhi later this month to connect with Indians, whom he described as "one of our most active and engaged communities" on social media. Read More
                  Kasei Valles Valley System on Mars In this image taken by the  High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment  ( HiRISE ) aboard the  Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter  ( MRO ) you can see the  Kasei Valles valley system on Mars . It was likely carved by flowing water and lava and has since suffered impacts.
                Screens That Bend Where We're Headed:  Many folks foresee a Roman-scroll-like smartphone —one that rolls out of a tube to create a large-screen display. This prediction would seem to result from the development of current bendable-screen technologies, such as  Samsung's YOUM flexible OLED ,  Corning's Willow Glass  and  LG's unnamed flexible screen  technology. More likely, however, future phones will feature displays that curve around a smartphone slab, either as a tapered glass edge, dual-sided viewing and touch functionality, or a single wide screen that can be folded in half like a wallet without a screen-splitting hinge in the middle. Think  Sprint’s Kyocera Echo  but much more evolved. Prediction:  Smartphone screens will be flexible, thanks to new materials like elastor polymer, flexible circuit boards and battery reconfigurations. In fact, your entire phone will twist and flex to conform to your body and supply unique control functi
  Facebook introduces new features       including profile videos Did you know people visit Facebook profiles more than 4 billion times per day? Yes, per day. Facebook revealed some new features its working on to help its many users express themselves more creatively on their profiles