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Visit the Ninja Jamm website: ninjajamm.com Download from the app store: itunes.com/apps/ninjajamm “We believe there’s a need for a fun and super playable jamming app” said seeper Founder Evan Grant. Collaborating with Ninja Tune, home to Amon Tobin, Bonobo, Mr. Scruff and many others seeper have created an innovative app where songs are released in “Tunepacks”, a brand new format, which could change music distribution. When played within the app, each Tunepack gives the user access to over forty different elements of an original tune: beats, vocals, melodies, effects and more. The jammer can hit play, sit back and listen to the tune, or start using the intuitive interface to re-imagine the song as they desire by mixing, glitching, looping and re-timing, whilst applying effects and firing samples over the top. Unlike many other music apps, the Ninja Jamm experience is very hands-on and immediate, the human feel is key to the enjoyment. You can touch, tilt, shake and use multiple fingers and thumbs to Jamm and record, create a killer version of a favourite Ninja Tune and instantly share it with the world through Soundcloud, Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr. seeper built Ninja Jamm using open source libraries: The backend audio engine is built in ‘PureData’ and runs on mobile courtesy of ‘libpd’. The front end user interface is built in C++ using openFrameworks with the store developed in device native Objective-C. The main programming challenge was performance, getting PD and Ofws to run with the hardware available on a mobile. Working with loss- less audio meant bigger file sizes, however seeper balanced this against the quality and performance saved by not needing heavy decoding. “I’m into anything that invites people in.... I really like the app: it just says ‘Go have fun and if you’re enjoying it... dig deeper’” - Amon Tobin “I should take it to my show tonight and just play this... I’ve not seen anything like it.” – Bonobo

Google can now predict what related info you might be after with Google Related. On today's Tekzilla Daily, Veronica shows you how to use this neat extension to make browsing the web quick and easy.

Formula 1 2011 is a very interesting and challenging sport to watch and now, we can actually play the same game on the computer.

Nasa has announced the discovery of a strange new solar system with six planets orbiting around a sun-like star. The discovery is mystifying astronomers and illustrates just how much variety is possible in the universe. Five of the planets were found to be in a closer orbit to their star than any planet in Earth's solar system. "We really were just amazed at this gift that Nature...has given us. And with six transiting planets, five so close to their star, and getting the size and masses of these five fairly small worlds, there's only one word that I can think of that adequately describes the new finding we're announcing today - supercalifragilisticexpialidocious," Nasa scientist Jack Lissauer said at a news briefing in Washington DC, referring to the word made famous in the 1964 Disney movie, "Mary Poppins." The team at Nasa and a range of universities has named the system Kepler-11, after the orbiting Kepler space telescope that spotted it. The star resembles Earth's own sun. But five of the planets orbiting it are packed into a space equivalent to the distance between Mercury and Venus in our own solar system. Astronomers have now found more than 500 exoplanets. Most are giant, because they are so far away that only the biggest are detectable. But some researchers are certain there are Earthlike planets out there.

CNN's Mohammed Jamjoom tracks how the Egyptian protests are tracking on social media.

CNN's Deborah Feyerick looks at a bomb fingerprinting technique being researched at the Lawrence Livermore National lab.

Iraqi performance artist Wafaa Bilal has had a camera sur...

A movie claimed to be the first cinema-standard film to be shot solely on the iPhone has been premiered in South Korea. "Night Fishing" took just 80 people, 150 million won ($133,000) and 10 days to create. Duration: 00:34.

A rocket developed by internet entrepreneur Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies has lifted off and reached orbit. Nasa is hoping the test flight will eventually lead to cargo runs to the International Space Station after its space shuttles are retired next year. The Nasa-backed mission is also intended to test a new capsule system aimed at eventually delivering a crew to the ISS. Space Exploration Technologies' Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, carrying the company's first Dragon capsule. Two more test flights are planned, though the company may decide to combine its remaining test flights and make a docking at the space station next summer. The California-based firm, created by the co-founder of PayPal, is one of two companies holding a combined $3.5 billion in Nasa contracts to deliver cargo to the space station after the space shuttles are retired. Nasa is also contributing a combined $500 million for SpaceX and Orbital Sciences to develop and test-fly their rockets and capsules. SpaceX intends to begin station deliveries by the end of 2011, with Elon Musk saying he could be launching station crews within three years of getting the go-ahead from Nasa.

In early 2009, a team of astronauts visited Hubble to repair the wear and tear of twenty years of operating in a hostile environment - and to install two new instruments, the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, and Wide Field Camera 3 - better known as WFC3.Credits, and more information are available on: http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/hubblecast40a/

EN :"Cannes Lions Festival 2010: web creative filmmakers on stage !"Logitech has participated to the MOFILM video competition. To be a part of the competition, entrants had to create a 60-second video which captures the spirit of Logitech’s HD webcams. MOFILM announced the winning filmmakers – and Logitech is especially excited to announce the winner, Morgan Christie! A big congratulations to Morgan who had received a once in a lifetime trip to experience the 2010 Cannes Lions Festival, Logitech products and US $3000 in prize money!

The search for Earth-like planets is reaching a fever-pitch. Does the evidence so far help shed light on the ancient question: Is the galaxy filled with life, or is Earth just a beautiful, lonely aberration? If things dont work out on this planet, or if our itch to explore becomes unbearable at some point in the future, Astronomers have recently found out what kind of galactic real estate might be available to us. Well have to develop advanced transport to land there, 20 light years away. The question right now: is it worth the trip?

This video is modeled in the classic tradition of P.T. Barnum, offering a collection of oddities for your viewing pleasure. So enter the Curiosity Shop for a compilation of facts and beautiful moon images taken by the Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn since 2004, set to Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16 II. Adagio. This video is produced in honor of the recent Cassini Spacecraft Mission extension through September 2017. Take a gander at Gigantic Titan to your left. Feel free to ogle bright Enceladus to your right, reflecting close to 100 percent of the light that hits its surface. Don't be afraid to eyeball Mimas and her craters.

Scientists who blasted a spent rocket into a lunar crater last year say they have discovered traces of silver. However, the levels are far too low to make it worth opening a lunar silver mine. More importantly from the point of view of space exploration, large amounts of water have been discovered at the bottom of a crater pointing the way to future manned missions. However, less welcome has been the detection of surprisingly high levels of mercury in the soil, posing a potential risk to explorers. The Lunar Crater Remote Observation and Sensing Satellite mission involved deliberately crashing a spent rocket into a crater near the Moon's south pole. Material thrown up by the impact was then analysed by instruments on the American space agency Nasa's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter probe. The target studied was the Cabeus crater, which lies in a permanently shaded region of the Moon where temperatures fall as low as 35 Kelvin (minus 238C).