Mars, iOS drops YouTube, and more - 90 Seconds on The Verge: Monday, August 6, 2012
Mars, iOS drops YouTube, and more - 90 Seconds on The Verge: Monday, August 6, 2012
2012-08-06
it's monday August sixth 2012 i'm david
pierce and 14 minutes ago I spent 90
seconds on the verge let's see how it
went after 36 weeks in 352 million miles
NASA's Curiosity rover last night's
successfully landed on the surface of
Mars the exciting Germany culminated in
what NASA called quotes seven minutes of
terror that the craft had to endure in
route to the planet's surface but an
approximately 130 2 a.m. eastern time
Atlanta touchdown confirm receipt you're
at science rules in more terrestrial
news Apple has confirmed that there will
be no YouTube app in iOS 6 in a
statement to the verge Apple said its
license to include the app has expired
the company also said that Google is
working on a new youtube app which will
be available in the App Store now we're
just hoping apple ditches stocks and
newsstand and compass to it would make
our home screens much cleaner Samsung
today released a trailer detailing more
about the Galaxy Note 10.1 as you might
have guessed it's a 10.1 inch android
tablet with a suite of stylus friendly
apps the company promises the tablet
will be available globally before the
end of the month for a brief period this
morning all the world's collective
knowledge drop to zero why because
Wikipedia went down a Twitter from
Wikimedia DC suggests this was due to
tamper servers that went down
fortunately full functionality was
restored in only a couple of hours and
the world knew things again stay tuned
for the next Jimmy Wales pledge drive
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