Instagram now available for Android devices

(CNN) -- After 18 months of waiting, users of Android phones and tablets can finally crash the Instagram party. On Tuesday the fast-growing, photo-sharing network for the iPhone and iPad finally launched an app for Android devices. The free application works with Android version 2.2 and higher and is available for download at Google Play, Google's new online store for digital media. "We've been meticulous about translating the Instagram experience to the Android platform," said a post Tuesday on Instagram's blog. "The Android app offers an extremely familiar Instagram experience when compared to the iOS app. You'll find all the same exact filters and community as our iOS version." Instagram lets users enhance their mobile photos with filters, share them with their friends or other people...

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A telescope that generates more data than the whole internet

(Mashable) -- There's a massive telescope on the drawing board that hasn't even started construction yet, but when it's finished in 2024, it'll generate more data in a single day than the entire Internet. For scientists to ensure they'll be able to handle all that raw information, they need to start working on new computing technologies now. Fortunately, IBM is on it. The computing giant is collaborating with ASTRON (the Netherlands Institute of Radio Astronomy) to develop the next-generation computer tech needed to handle the colossal amount of data captured by the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), a new radio telescope that will spread sensing equipment over a span 3,000 kilometers wide, or about the width of the continental U.S.A. "One of the goals is to search what happened at the time of...

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