March 17, 2011

Keeping marketers out of your web browser just got a little easier. The newest version of Microsoft Internet Explorer includes a “do not track” tool that lets you to stop web sites from following your movements along the information superhighway. The Federal Trade Commission has called on all web browser developers to add the feature to their products. Source Link
 

Getting more bang for the bucks spent on space exploration is the idea behind a 10-year plan that calls for missions to places like Mars and one of Jupiter’s moons, but without humans on-board. The spaceflights with robots are considered the only way to continue interplanetary space exploration and live within the limits of a shrinking budget for NASA. Source Link
 

March Madness kicks into high gear today with the NCAA Men’s basketball tournament that will give us the nation’s college hoops champion from a field of 68 hopefuls. Ohio State, Kansas, Pittsburgh and Duke are the top seeds in the tournament. For the first time, all of the first-round games will be broadcast live nationwide with four TV networks sharing the coverage duties. Source Link