All Systems Go For First Private Spacecraft To Reach the Space Station [Space]

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NASA and SpaceX have a date for the launch of the Dragon spacecraft that will reach the International Space Station : Saturday, May 19, from 4:55 AM ET/1:55 AM ET. It will be a historic moment. Here's what will happen: More

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Video Collaboration Service TenHands Launches Free Browser-Based WebEx Competitor

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As the capabilities of modern browsers expand and developing standards like Google’s WebRTC initiative for real-time communications slowly find their way into most popular browsers, we’ll likely see more video collaboration software that’s currently still client-based move to the browser as well. TenHands , which is launching its private beta today (you can request an invite here ) wants to be the first out of the gate in this market and sees itself as a direct competitor to Cisco’s WebEx , Microsoft Lync and other incumbents in this space

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Artificial Space Shuttle Explorer readies for launch at sea, journey to Houston

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Were you asleep at mission control during Endeavor's final flight ?

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Facebook Adds “Good Enough” File Sharing To All Groups. Dropbox Should Worry About Growth

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Today Facebook begins rolling out file sharing to all Groups, and while it’s got many restrictions, it could be good enough to limit the long-term growth potential of cloud storage / file sharing services like  Dropbox , iCloud, and Google Drive. Music and any copyright files aren’t allowed and file size is capped at 25mb, as Mashable first reported . But this is just the first version, and you can be sure Facebook will keep hacking away at it

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Closure of CityPockets provides window onto shakeout in daily deal business

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Less than a year ago, it looked like CityPockets , a NY-based startup that organizes daily deals and provides a secondary market for them, was in a groove . It scored $750,00 in new funding, made an acquisition and was rolling out product enhancements. But this week, the company said it was shutting down and pivoting to a new opportunity in social couponing

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Farmeron puts big data to work down on the farm

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When most cloud startups think about their customers, they probably imagine gaggles of office workers or sales people sitting at their cubicles, punching in numbers and making calls. Few would expect their users to be logging in while wearing mud-covered overalls and trying to move hundreds of head of cattle into the milking shed. Yet that’s precisely the user base for Farmeron , a software-as-a-service startup that today announced $1.4 million in fresh funding and wants to break new ground by taking the cloud into the agricultural business

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This Is the Definitive Photograph of Planet Earth [Video]

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Unlike NASA's Blue Marble —which is a composite made from many different photographs—this is a portrait of Earth taken in one single shot . It's the highest resolution image of our home planet, 121 megapixels. That's an amazing 0.62 miles per pixel.

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Tesla will ship first Model S electric cars a month early

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The Model S Betas got buffed between rides.

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This Tin Foil Can Hold the Universe’s Largest Burrito [Space]

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You are looking at the largest piece of tin foil in the planet, one of the James Webb Space Telescope 's sunshield membranes. There will be five of these membranes, which will keep its core at 50 Kelvin (-369.67F or -223.15C). More

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Why Location-Based Services Will Create Multiple Winners At The Application Layer

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Editor’s Note:  TechCrunch  columnist  Semil Shah  currently works at  Votizen  and is based in Palo Alto. You can follow him on Twitter  @semil Location, location, location. Whether you’re a real estate agent, a traveler, or building mobile applications, location matters a great deal

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