NASA's rover Curiosity is set to spend the next several days using the camera on its mast in a search for the next route to travel on Mars. Scientists are already on the lookout for a rock on the surface of Mars to try out the rover's ...
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NASA's Mars Curiosity rover is set to begin a very busy weekend. The rover is slated to scoop up its first sample of Martian soil on Saturday, NASA reported. Curiosity on Wednesday came across a sandy area that NASA scientists decided ...
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Picture doing a software upgrade. Now picture doing it when the machine you're upgrading is sitting 156 million miles away. And now picture tweaking that software every day. That's what programmers and engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion ...
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Bridgelux Inc.and Toshiba Corporation announced that Bridgelux and Toshiba have achieved the industry's top class 8"GaN on Silicon LED chip emitting 614mW,<3.1V@350mA with 1.1mm square chip,just months after they have engaged in a joint ...
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After a month on the surface of Mars, NASA rover Curiosity has driven more than the length of a football field and has started gearing for some real scientific work. "We've been on the surface of Mars for about a month and Curiosity ...
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Picture doing a remote software upgrade. Now picture doing it when the machine you're upgrading is a robotic rover sitting 350 million miles away, on the surface of Mars. That's what a team of programmers and engineers at NASA are dealing ...
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NASA's Mars Curiosity rover wiggled its wheels Tuesday and is ready to make its first -- if brief -- test drive on Wednesday. As part of a series of major tests that have been running over the past several days, the robotic rover on ...
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Three-quarters of charities believe technology has enabled them to help more people, but 80% have no plans to use cloud computing. Research from Accenture was conducted to coincide with Byte Night, which sees workers in the IT industry ...
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With the Mars rover's software successfully upgraded, Curiosity is a big step closer to beginning its mission of finding out whether life has ever existed on Mars. Curiosity, NASA's super robotic rover, has been on the surface of Mars for ...
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LED chip and lighting array maker Bridgelux Inc of Livermore,CA,USA has been named in the annual San Francisco Business Times 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies in the Bay Area list.Ranked 17 on the list,Bridgelux was selected because of ...
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Toshiba Corporation today announced that it will start mass production of white light-emitting diode(LED)on a production line that the company will construct in the 200mm wafer facility at Kaga Toshiba Electronics Co.Ltd.,a production base ...
Kolkata Municipal Corporation(KMC)undertook a pilot project in 2010 by replacing 276 street lights with LEDs.It saved 54kw energy resulting into savings of Rs 11 lakh in electricity bills.Now,KMC is considering replacing all its 180,000 ...
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Bridgelux was named in the prestigious 2012 Global Cleantech 100,produced by Cleantech Group,a global research and advisory firm focused on innovation in energy and the environment. The Global Cleantech 100 list is unique in the ...
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Military uniforms of the future may offer a new layer of critical protection to wearers thanks to research by teams at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and several other institutions who are developing a nanotube-based fabric that ...
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Bridgelux has appointed Timothy Lester as chief financial officer (CFO). 'Tim has been an integral part of our team since he joined Bridgelux in 2010. He has more than demonstrated his ability to lead our company's financial operations, ...
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