The Moon’s tiny twin is stalking Mars

The Moon’s tiny twin is stalking Mars One of these things is not like the other… Astronomers from the Armagh Observatory and Planetarium (AOP) in Northern Ireland examined these Eureka bodies. Spectrographs made using the X-SHOOTER instrument attached to the eight-meter Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile uncovered a secret. While other bodies in the Eureka group were similar to each other, 101429 is far different. However, it does resemble another body in the Solar System — our ownMoon....

4 min · 717 words · Michael Fuller

The Mophie Juice Pack Plus is the iPhone case and battery combo you’ve been waiting for

I have a new addiction. It’s an addiction that I’ve formed because I was tired of running out of steam after a hard day of work. My addiction is to the MophieJuice Pack Plusbecause it brings my iPhone back from the dead. The Juice Pack is a battery for your iPhone. But it’s also a case. It comes in two different flavors, a 1500 mAhAir model, then this 2000 mAh version called the Juice Pack Plus....

3 min · 572 words · Shannon Allen

The most (and least) responsive airlines on Twitter during Hurricane Irene

One of the great aspects about social media is that it allows consumers to bitch and moan publicly, and depending on the number of your Twitter followers, promptly get a response. We’ve written aboutairlines with social media savvyat 35,000 feet, taking a close look atSouthwest Airlines,JetBlue,Virgin America,KLM, andDelta. But if you were one of the unlucky airline passengers stranded due to Hurricane Irene, be thankful you weren’t flying on AirTran and United, who ignored customer queries on Twitter....

2 min · 425 words · Robin Manning

The most annoying Facebook Like advert we’ve ever seen

We’re big fans of the Facebook Like button here atThe Next Web, which is why we want to share this new advert featuring tennis star Andy Murray and pretty much no other story line apart from the Facebook Like button. We’re all for integrating social media into your TV advertisements and having a unified approach to your marketing strategies but we’re pretty sure that there has to be a more creative way than this to do it....

2 min · 273 words · Kimberly White

The most beautiful way to check weather on your iPhone, iPad and now Mac

Most of the time I settle for checking weather on the web at whatever site I happen to remember at that moment. That’s before I saw Weather HD over atMacstories. This is a fantastic looking weather app for the Mac that combines beautiful interface elements with a cool window that displays animated views of the current weather conditions. It actually makes me want to check my weather even more often....

2 min · 402 words · Edward Thomas
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