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Lost among all the Mobile World Congress media frenzy was a short demonstration in which Microsoft showed off the HTML5 capabilities of the upcoming mobile version of Internet Explorer 9. While it was highly ‘demo,’ in that it was a few tests on prepared handsets, it was illuminating. Microsoft is currently putting the finishing touches on thefull Internet Explorer 9,a browser that has a strong focus on standards compliance. It is rumored that perhapsMarch 14thwill be the launch date for the full version of IE9....

Well, you read the headline, here are the goods: It’s time. You can buy the very first seat on#NewShepard. Sign up to learn how athttps://t.co/XNq9WALA7u. Details coming May 5th.#GradatimFerociterpic.twitter.com/K9jugCs9yz — Blue Origin (@blueorigin)April 29, 2021 If you can’t piece together why Bezos is blasting through the desert in a pre-production Rivian R1T all-electric truck, I can explain. Blue Origin is a private space tourism business that’s privately owned by, you guessed it, a Stetson-ed Jeff Bezos....

In case you haven’t heard of theNew York Tech Meetup, it’s unlike any other tech meetup in the world. It’s in a town soterrifically proudof its dynamic and fast-growing tech scene that there’s literally a secondary market to snag tickets. Every month, 9 or 10 companies get 3 to 5 minutes each to demo something cool to New York’s tech community of geeks, investors, entrepreneurs and hackers. This week was an incredibly big week for the NYTM community, with Mayor Michael Bloomberg making his first ever appearance at the Tuesday night event....

An autonomous helicopter called Ingenuity made the first powered and controlled flight on another planet on Monday — and NASA has the video to prove it. The 1.8 kg robot climbed three meters above Mars, hovered in the air for about 30 seconds, and then returned to the red planet’s surface. It was only a brief trip, but Ingenuity had to overcome some major challenges on the way. The Martian atmosphere is just 1% as dense as that of the surface of our planet, which means there’s little air for the chopper’s 1....

NASA’s been sharing a constant stream of content from the Ingenuity helicopter’s mission on Mars, and its latest offering is the most immersive yet. The space agency has released a 3D video of the tiny chopper’s third flight on the red planet, which took place on April 25. The images were captured by a pair of zoomable cameras attached to the mast of the Perseverance rover, which carried Ingenuity to Mars....