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The Chinese space push is in full swing, but the CNSA (Chinese NASA) is nowhere near ready to compete in terms of PR. When Chang’e 3 — China’s first lunar rover — rolled from its lander this week, it made its country one of just three to ever drive a lander on the Moon. In celebration of the event, Chinese ...

2014 will be a year of tremendous change for both Intel and AMD. Both companies are responding to rapidly shifting market dynamics as the computing market continues its greatest product transition since the PC debuted nearly forty years ago. The two CPU manufacturers are attacking this shift from different directions and with different product strategies; we’ll start with Intel first. ...

A poll has suggested that married people are happier on average [GETTY/MODELS USED] Those who are married, rather than simply in a relationship, are happier with their personal levels of success than anyone else, a poll has found. For most of us, ­success is not about fame or fortune but rather about such things as ­having good friends and enjoying ...

Valerie June brings her unique take on roots music to the Highline Ballroom. Valerie June Fri. 8 p.m. Highline Ballroom Valerie June sings in a voice full of hard angles and rough surfaces. There’s a clanging quality to her tone, and a tinniness in her timbre, that speaks of the most unfiltered part of the American South. “By no measure ...

Shutterstock Black women have to work harder than white women to lose weight, according to a new study. A new study has found that African-American women have to eat less or exercise more in order to lose as much weight as their Caucasian counterparts. It’s a harsh reality that scientists from the University of Pittsburgh attribute in part to their ...

Taylor Swift leads the pack when it comes to the most charitable celebs around. Not only did the “I Knew You Were Trouble” singer personally phone a cancer-stricken 8-year-old girl on Christmas, she also celebrated her recent 24th birthday by writing a $ 100,000 check to the Nashville Symphony, which hit money troubles this year. Swift made headlines when she ...

Teddy Bear Tea Party at the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum and Garden. Kids get a tour from an actress who plays the proprietor’s wife. TEA FOR TOTS BYOB – bring your own bear! The Mount Vernon Hotel Museum and Garden on the Upper East Side hosts a honey of a brunch on Sunday to cure kids’ post-holiday blahs. Children ages ...

BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images A man helps build a barricade as demonstrators clash with riot police (unseen) during a protest against corruption in the Kadikoy district of Istanbul on Wednesday. Turkey’s prime minister says he believes he is the ultimate target of a corruption and bribery probe of his allies that has shaken the government. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said ...

Howard Simmons/New York Daily News Cam Talbot makes the most of his last two starts for the Rangers. WASHINGTON – Rangers backup goalie Cam Talbot could go from the Christmas tree to the Christmas three on Friday night – as in a third consecutive start ahead of a healthy Henrik Lundqvist, as the Rangers emerge from the NHL’s three-day holiday ...

Sometimes even the best albums can slip through the cracks. The Court Yard Hounds’ latest CD, “Amelita,” came out back in July, but somehow got lost in the shuffle. It ranks as the greatest overlooked album of the year and, so, deserves mention before 2013 passes us by. The Hounds owes their life to the temporary fracturing of the Dixie ...