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An Interview With Yik Yak's Founders

SXSW Interactive saw Yik Yak founders Tyler Droll and Brooks Buffington sitting down Monday with Carmel DeAmicis of GigaOm for what DeAmicis called a rare interview. This is the first SXSW experience for both founders, who related that a year ago they were still working furiously on the app and probably wouldn’t have believed they would […]

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The FCC's Big Decision

Earlier this month, the FCC made a ruling on the way the United States will govern the Internet. The decision has sparked both negative, and mostly positive reaction from the general public. Gigi Sohn, special counsel to the Office of the Chairman of the FCC, came to SXSW to talk about the decision of net […]

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Engines, Rockets, and Engineers

To fly humans to Mars we will need a very big rocket to lift the hardware needed to live on another planet for several months before heading home. The planned habitat will likely be the same size a two-story house. This means the rocket will be bigger than the mighty Saturn V of the Apollo […]

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A Conversation with Dr. Ochoa

“Right now is the golden time to be an astronaut, we have so much to look forward to,” said Astronaut Reid Wiseman at his panel at SXSW. In order to answer what it is in human space flight that astronauts and the public who watch them with fascination have to look forward to, it would […]