Branson hopes Google Earth helps find Fossett
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RENO, Nevada  - The search for missing 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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The search for missing adventurer Steve Fossett neared the one-week mark on Sunday, with aircraft once again taking to the skies above a vast expanse of wilderness to hunt for the millionaire aviator, officials said.
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British tycoon Sir Richard Branson on Friday announced a $25 million prize for the first scientist to come up with a way to extract greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.
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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 Internet data provider Google.
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LONDON - The founder of Virgin Atlantic Airlines is spreading his wings. No longer content with conquering the skies, Richard Branson has set his sights higher-- much higher.
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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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Amazon's Mechanical Turk scours latest sat images Amazon and Google are colloborating to try and locate adventurer Steve Fossett, missing since last Monday somewhere in Nevada.â¦
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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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British mogul Richard Branson has pledged to spend three billion dollars in the next 10 years on a variety of projects &quot;to tackle emissions related to global warming.&quot;
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Virgin chief Sir Richard Branson has launched what he called the world's biggest prize to inspire innovators to develop a way to remove greenhouse gases from the earth's atmosphere.
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Sir Richard Branson may be a world-famous businessman and adventurer, but adding "TV star" to his resume may be difficult after the premiere of his new reality series on Fox attracted low ratings.
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Sir Richard Branson may be a  world-famous businessman and adventurer, but adding "TV star"  to his resume may be difficult after the premiere of his new  reality series on Fox attracted low ratings.
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When the first space vacations are available, Richard Branson will be there selling them. On Sept. 27, Branson&#39;s Virgin announced a partnership with Paul Allen&#39;s Mojave Aerospace Ventures and SpaceShipOne
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&quot;Star Trek&quot; star William Shatner and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Dave Navarro are among thousands who want to fly on Virgin&#39;s proposed commercial space flights, company chief Richard Branson said Friday.
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The search for missing adventurer Steve Fossett entered a sixth day on Saturday with searchers still no closer to unraveling the mystery of the millionaire aviator&#39;s fate.
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Sir Richard Branson hopes his new company will be the first to send adventuresome tourists into space. Branson, founder of airlines, entertainment and telecom holding company Virgin Group, announced Monday
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British billionaire Richard Branson said  on Wednesday he was hoping to trace missing U.S. adventurer  Steve Fossett through a satellite mapping service offered by  Internet data provider Google.