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Watch SpaceX’s reusable rocket fly to 1,000m and then return to the ground to land

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by on May 2, 2014 at 5:59 am
Posted In: Around the Web, falcon 9, Shareables, spacex

We were pretty impressed last month when SpaceX’s reusable Falcon 9 rocket conducted a successful test at 250 meters and, in the same vein, the latest video footage of it going even higher is equally as worthy of your attention. SpaceX is aiming to shake things up and make all rockets reusable, a move that could save the industry vast amounts of money. In the latest test of its capabilities, the reusable rocket ‘hops’ — as SpaceX refers to the manoeuvre — to 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) before returning to land safely. SpaceX is planning a serious ambitious leap in extra-planetary rocket technology, so it’s…

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Apple launches its iTunes Match service in Japan

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by on May 2, 2014 at 5:07 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, iTunes, Japan

Apple has launched its iTunes Match service in Japan, where it costs ¥3,980 per year (or roughly $40), as MacRumors reports. The service, which replicates a user’s music collection on iTunes with high-quality versions in iCloud and makes them available to play across any device, was first launched in 2011 and costs $25 per year in the US. Apple expanded it across twelve additional markets in Asia in the summer of 2012, but Japan was left off that list, until now. There’s plenty of competition in Japan, including Sony Music Unlimited, and DeNA’s Groovy service, although the latter had a number of features shut…

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