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Nintendo Loses Domain Dispute for Wii U

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Earlier this year Nintendo wanted to acquire “wiiu.com” but found that it was already taken. Nintendo went ahead and filed a complaint for cybersquatting. Unfortunately for Nintendo, Fusible is reporting that they have lost the dispute and will not be able to take control of the domain.

Nintendo will likely have to fork over some serious cash in order to own the domain and what makes this worse is that prior to the complaint, the domain was up for auction. This is just one of many battles that major companies have had with domain holders over the years. It kind of makes you wonder why these businesses don’t do a little more research before they name a product.

Fix in the Works for 2013 MacBook Air Wi-Fi Problem

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The new MacBook Air from Apple boasts all day battery life, a 4th generation Intel CPU, a super-fast SSD, a bump in graphics performance and support for the latest 802.11ac Wi-Fi technology. Unfortunately, there have been a few issues with the latter.

New MacBook Air owners are experiencing Wi-Fi connection drops on a regular basis and the only fix seems to require you to reboot your laptop. This obviously sucks and it’s one of the reasons I prefer to wait a while before buying the latest and greatest.

Fortunately, there is good news out there as AppleInsider has reported that Apple is indeed sending out invitations for MacBook Air users to join the AppleSeed program which will allow them to download a early version of  the “MacBook Air WiFi Update 1.0”. This update is most likely aimed at correcting the connection issues that early adopters have been dealing with over the last few weeks.

The 2013 MacBook Air in both sizes is currently the only laptop in Apple’s lineup that features the new 802.11ac standard.

PayPal Goes Galactic With Space Currency

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The question that you may or may not have ever asked; what currency will we use in space? PayPal is trying to answer this question by officially launching PayPal Galactic. It’s one of the problems that no one ever really seems to talk about, until now.

I often think about how people could soon be spending their vacation in a “space hotel” and how we could set-up shop on Mars and start building cites and growing our own food there but I never thought about how we would pay for things in these places. It may sound like crazy science fiction movie but I think it’s a great time to start figuring out these problems as space becomes more accessible.

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As space tourism programs are opening space travel to ‘the rest of us’ this drives questions about the commercialization of space. We are launching PayPal Galactic, in conjunction with leaders in the scientific community, to increase public awareness of the important questions that need to be addressed,” -David Marcus, PayPal’s President. 

Even if spending your vacation on Mars doesn’t happen during your lifetime, it doesn’t mean that it will never happen. It’s the way we are built as humans, we want to explore and push the limits of what we can do and where we can go, so space colonization is highly likely if not completely inevitable. One day, generations after us may need to study their history books to prepare for a test that focuses on the earliest settlers who came to Mars and built the first cities. Perhaps PayPal will be in those books as the pioneers who helped create the first universal space currency.

PayPal is currently working with the SETI Institute (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) to help bring this issue to light and hopefully make all of this happen. PayPal Galactic also has Buzz Aldrin talking about the issue, whom you can see in the video above.

So, What do you think about PayPal Galactic? Are we ready to talk about space currency?

 

Take A Look at The Supermoon This Weekend

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Supermoon of 2011 (Image Credit: Peter2006son)

This weekend will offer a once-a-year opportunity to catch a view of the Supermoon, which is also called a perigee Moon. A Supermoon is what we see in the night sky when the Moon is closest to Earth in it’s elliptical orbit and a full Moon at the same time.

All of this will happen on June 23rd (Sunday) and the Moon will be much larger and brighter that it normally is. You should have no problem noticing it, as long a the weather permits for good viewing. Another effect that occurs during the Supermoon is that of enhanced or stronger tides. These tides are about 40% stronger than those that occur during Apogee, which is when the Moon is at it’s farthest point from Earth in it’s elliptical orbit.