Branson hopes to trace Fossett with Google images
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RENO, Nevada  - British billionaire Richard Branson said on Wednesday he was hoping to trace Steve Fossett through a satellite mapping service offered by Internet data provider Google as the search for the missing U.S. adventurer resumed.
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Sir Richard Branson is set to unveil a mock-up of the Virgin vehicle that will carry customers into space.
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Richard Branson, Britain&#39;s best-known entrepreneur and part-time daredevil, plans to launch the world&#39;s first passenger service to space in 2007, offering zero-gravity flights for 110,000 pounds ($198,600).
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Web surfers may soon be able to  explore the canyons of Mars and experience a virtual flight  over the surface of the moon thanks to a deal announced on  Monday between Web search company Google Inc. and the  NASA Ames Research Center.
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British tycoon Richard Branson urged the aviation industry to join his Virgin Atlantic airline in an ambitious plan to combat the potential &quot;catastrophe&quot; of global warming.
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Google on Monday added details of World Wildlife Fund (WWF) environmental projects to its popular global online mapping service.
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RENO, Nevada  - The search for missing U.S.  adventurer Steve Fossett resumed on Wednesday as his friend,  British billionaire Richard Branson, tried to find him through  a satellite mapping service offered by Google.
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Web users are being enrolled in a scheme to scour Google Earth images for the missing adventurer.
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Billionaire adventurer Richard Branson unveiled part of his Virgin Galactic spacecraft, expressing hope that millions will be able to travel into space in coming decades and vowing to do his part to make that a reality.
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Billionaire Virgin Group Chairman   Richard Branson on Thursday committed an estimated $3 billion   over the next 10 years, or all of the profits from his airline   and rail businesses, to combating global warming.
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"Star Trek" star William Shatner and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Dave Navarro are among thousands of people who want to fly on Virgin's proposed commercial space flights, company chief Richard Branson said Friday.
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Virgin is all over the map. Yesterday morning, Sir Richard Branson introduced to the world that he was ready to make astronauts of us all by 2007.
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DigitalGlobe, provider of imagery  for Google Inc's  interactive mapping program Google  Earth, said a new high-resolution satellite will boost the  accuracy of its satellite images and flesh out its archive.
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British billionaire Richard Branson unveiled a mockup of his Virgin Galactic civilian spaceship, vowing to do his part to make space travel a reality for millions of people.
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Billionaire Richard Branson hopes to entice researchers to seek methods to contain climate damage. By the Associated Press.
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(InfoWorld) - Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk is enlisting human eyes to help in an online search for missing adventurer Steve Fossett. Mechanical Turk is a Web service hosted by Amazon that lets anyone combine human intelligence with computer programs. The site aims to make up for a specific failure that persists in computers. "Humans still significantly outperform the most powerful computers at completing such simple tasks as identifying objects in photographs -- something children can do even before they learn to speak," the site explains. Friends of Fossett have set up a project on Mechanical Turk that could help identify the location of his airplane. Fossett set out in the plane in Nevada on Sept. 3 and hasn't been heard from since. Anyone can visit the Mechanical Turk site and lend a hand. Instructions on the page ask participants to view satellite images within Google Earth of the region where Fossett is thought to be. If they see anything that might resemble the airplane, they can mark the satellite image as containing an object that should be looked at more closely. Participants are asked to mark an image if they are at all suspicious that it contains something of interest. The project also cautions people not to worry that missing a detail will be tragic, because many people will look at the same image. Marked images will be further examined by experts. Mechanical Turk was also enlisted in the hunt for Jim Gray, a prominent computer scientist who went missing after setting off on his sail boat earlier this year. He has not been found. The Fossett effort also includes airplane and helicopter searchers. Fossett is well-known for being the first person to fly a plane solo around the world without refueling and also for making it around the world in a balloon. He has set 115 world records or world firsts, has swum the English Channel and completed the Iditarod, a dog sled race in Alaska, according to his Web site. While people helping to hunt for Fossett and Gray are volunteers, other Mechanical Turk projects pay participants, usually less than $0.25 per task. Mechanical Turk isn't the only online service that relies on human intelligence. ChaCha.com, a search engine launched last year, uses human "guides" to provide search results. A user inserts a search term and a remote worker searches for the answer, sending links to Web pages back to the user. The guide may be an expert in the subject the user is searching for so may be able to find better results than other search engines, according to ChaCha. Mahalo.com is another search site that uses people to compile results for common search terms. Workers weed out spam sites, pages with overbearing advertising and sites that use information without giving appropriate credit to the source.
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Google launches an add-on to its 3D mapping tool which allows star gazers to explore images of millions of stars.