Earth

Viral Image: The Biggest and Bluest Marble

Kara Swisher in Media on January 27 at 1:33 am PT

Our beautiful home in the deep, dark universe.

Kepler 22-B: Earth 2.0 for Future Facebook Friending?

Kara Swisher in News on December 6, 2011 at 6:04 am PT

Hey geeks, the comics might have been right about Counter-Earth!

Viral Video: Steven Spielberg's Latest Alien Invasion

Kara Swisher in News on March 30, 2011 at 2:36 am PT

This new television series from TNT about aliens invading Earth, titled “Falling Skies,” is exec-produced by Steven Spielberg. As you might recall, the Hollywood legend knows a thing or two about space creatures, including making hit movies such as “E.T.” But these new aliens, as it turns out, aren’t quite so cuddly.

Live From Redmond: Microsoft's Turner, Bach, Mundie Talk Strong, Play Games and Introduce Us to HAL

Kara Swisher in News on July 30, 2009 at 12:11 pm PT

While Microsoft COO Kevin Turner did a kind of modified cheerleading act at Microsoft’s annual Financial Analyst Meeting, Entertainment and Devices President Robbie Bach played the teenage boy and Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie the voice from the future. It included Bach playing ball with Microsoft’s new motion-sensing, controllerless Project Natal and Mundie introducing a very creepy digital assistant with more than a passing resemblance to HAL from “2001: A Space Odyssey.”