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O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo. Even if you failed English class, you'd recognize that phrase anywhere. It's from Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet. But would you recognize this phrase: O Romep+ Rpldo wiepffnre arr!riov Romep@. That's Shakespeare too. If Shakespeare was compressed over and over again by JPEG.Read more...

Last month, NASA declared its Kepler mission to hunt exoplanets at an end when one of the space telescope’s reaction wheels failed. Unable to keep itself pointed in the right direction, it could no longer carry on its hunt for planets beyond the Solar System. That seemed like the end of things, but Keith Horne of the University of St Andrews and Andrew Gould of Ohio State University disagree. They claim that Kepler could still hunt for exoplanets using gravity microlensing to detect how stars with planets distort space... Continue Reading Scientists propose using gravity microlensing to keep Kepler in the hunt Section: Space Tags: Exoplanet, Kepler Mission, NASA, Ohio State University, Space telescope, St Andrews University, Water Related Articles: First Earth-size planets discovered beyond our solar system Kepler discovers smallest habitable-zone Earth-like planets to date NASA's Kepler finds exoplanet smaller than Mercury NASA: mission accomplished, Kepler – now look harder still Kepler spacecraft discovers tiniest solar system yet found "Einstein's planet" becomes first exoplanet discovered using new detection method

You use Google. Or maybe, just maybe you use Bing. Sometimes one is better. Sometimes the other is prettier. Sometimes it's the other way around. Whatever. The most hilarious, ridiculous difference between the two though? How they auto-complete the Xbox One. Google Instant finds words like terrible, ugly, a joke and so forth. Bing? Just one. Amazing.Read more...

Recycling! It's good for the planet, or something. It's also a very sensible thing to do. But how does the bottle you just drank out of become a new bottle you'll drink out of in the future? No, it's not just refilling the glass. It's a process that involves magnets, soda ash, a 2,700 degree furnace, something called gobs and more.Read more...

Cancer. It's a conversation stopper of a word, isn’t it? An ugly, brutal word, worthy of the hideous disease that will touch just about everybody's life in one way or another. And recent reports suggest that even more of us than previously thought...

We are thrilled to announce Neil deGrasse Tyson will narrate the Museum's newest Space Show, premiering this fall at the Hayden Planetarium.Read more...

Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it will soon be expanding its online Office Web Apps functionality, by adding new features to be better on-par with online document editing provided by Google.  Specifically, Redmond-based Microsoft detailed in...

You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours -- all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy. Filed under: Cellphones, Misc, Internet Comments

Apple recently revised some patent applications registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark office, possibly revealing some upcoming new Siri features.The iPhone maker updated three trademark applications on June 13, plus one prior to those in May, Patently Apple reported yesterday.The applications describe new Siri features including hotel booking and education services.Apple already detailed part of what's new with Siri in iOS 7, so it may be that these features arrive in future updates, or not at all. Then again Apple hasn't described every new nook and cranny of Siri's consciousness and there could be many more new features awaiting us in the fall.Siri, order me room serviceOne trademark application details new Siri features like the ability for the virtual personal assistant to make hotel reservations and provide services similar to what travel agents and concierges do.That's where another Apple patent for an iWallet or even Apple's rumored iTravel services could come in, Patently Apple suggested.Siri could also learn more about wine, the patent suggests, to answer the questions of more cultured iPhone users.The patent from May describes Siri services that would provide information relating to education, including online instruction in fields ranging from elementary school to university-level subjects.Apple has staked its claim in education before, so such feature would certainly make sense.Now it just remains to be seen whether we see these features in iOS 7 this fall.Voice commands across multiple systems appear to be getting more robust, if rumors of a new Snapdragon 800-powered LG phone have any credence.

Citing "people familiar with the matter," the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Microsoft was in advanced talks to buy Finnish smartphone manufacturer Nokia. However, a sale is now unlikely. The newspaper reports that talks faltered and "aren't likely to be revived." The WSJ claims that the two parties were close to an oral agreement but that Microsoft walked away from the deal after disagreements over the asking price. Additionally, Nokia's market position—trailing both Apple and Samsung as it is—was a sticking point. Nokia is, nonetheless, the biggest manufacturer by far of Windows Phone handsets and appears to be slowly increasing its market share. The deal may have potentially been sweetened by the fact that Microsoft could have used offshore cash to make the purchase. This would've allowed the company to avoid the tax liability incurred by moving the money to the US. Microsoft did this for its 2011 Skype purchase. Read on Ars Technica | Comments