February 9th, 2013

Mailbox’s Virtual Queue Succeeds In The Waiting Game Where Peter Molyneux’s Curiosity Stumbles

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Mailbox, the email inbox management app for iPhone that was released in beta this week, currently has around 700,000 users queuing up for access, at the time of this writing. That’s according to the in-app counter that many of us have been staring at on and off for days now, which tells you how many people there are still ahead of you in line for the app, and how many people are joining up behind… → Read More

November 7th, 2012

With Curiosity, Peter Molyneux Explores Whether A Cube Can Capture The World’s Attention

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Legendary game designer Peter Molyneux, creator of classics like Black & White and Fable, has taken his first foray into mobile today with Curiosity, an app for iOS and Android devices that asks the world as a collective whole to come together and work on solving a central problem. But Curiosity is more about playing with expectations than end goals, in a way uniquely suited to mobile devices. → Read More

August 6th, 2012

Curiosity Lands On Mars, Twitter Explodes, NASA Parties Like It’s 2001?

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At 10:32 p.m. PST on Sunday night, NASA’s robotic space rover, “Curiosity,” touched down on the surface of the Red Planet — in the “Gale Crater” for those keeping track. The landing was a landmark event — the culmination of eight months of space travel (Curiosity launched on November 26, 2011) and some $2.5 billion. While the mere feat of surviving a trip through space (35 million+ miles) and a… → Read More

August 6th, 2012

‘Curiosity’ Killed The Apathy? #fundNASA Crowdfunding Plea Goes Viral

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Many of us right now are wide-eyed with the latest images from NASA’s Curiosity mission to Mars — so much so that, as Europe wakes up from its live-TV Olympics 100-meter sprint slumber, it looks like that site is occasionally crashing from traffic. Now, another, important idea is just starting to take shape: NASA needs money, big time, to keep doing cool stuff like this.

#fundNASA is picking… → Read More

August 5th, 2012

The Case For ‘Curiosity’: Why You Should Stay Up And Watch The Mars Rover Landing

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As I write this, NASA’s Curiosity rover is hurtling through space as it has been for the past eight months, but that all changes tonight. With any luck (scratch that — with a staggering amount of luck), that Mini Cooper-sized envoy will survive its tricky seven minute atmospheric entry, after which it will roam the Martian surface conducting a slew of science experiments for nearly two… → Read More