AfterTek

Scientists from NASA are preparing this week for a more difficult and unconventional mission. They will be slamming two of their spacecrafts into the moon’s South Pole in order to find hidden ice water in the lunar double.

NASA is confident that the mission will be successful – but also quite difficult. “I think that people are apprehensive about it because it seems violent or crude, but it’s very economical,” said Tony Colaprete, the principal investigator for the mission at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif.

This week Apple released upgraded models of the MacBook and MacBook Pro giving them Intel Core 2 Duo processors and larger hard drives that will provide them with more memory. Both models will also be equipped with mutli-touch trackpads – which was first revealed earlier in the year on the new MacBook Air. It allows the user to use gestures in order to get into programs and files on their computers with the touch of a button on their screen.

Many unsuspecting people were surprised and excited to see early downloads of the new Windows Vista Service Pack 1. The new Service Pack was not supposed to be released until the middle of March – but due to certain glitches it was released early.

“A build of SP1 was posted to Windows Update and it was inadvertently made available to a broad group,” Microsoft said in a statement. “The build was intended only for our more technically advanced testers, and was meant to only be offered to those with a specific registry key set on their PC. For general availability, we are still planning to make SP1 broadly available in the mid-March timeframe.”