Computerworld - A Danish graduate student said he was searching for research material on an IEEE FTP server last week when he stumbled upon the usernames and passwords of about 100,000 members of the professional association. In a blog ...
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In initial tests, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has discovered that Martian soil is an awfully lot like Hawaiian sand. The super rover, which has been working on Mars since this past August, ran its first soil samples over the past few ...
In general, all the LED products can be divided into two major parts, the public lighting and indoor lighting. LED uses fall into four major categories: Visual signals where light goes more or less directly from the source to the human ...
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Personally identifiable information of "at least" 10,000 NASA employees and contractors remains at risk of compromise following last month's theft of an agency laptop, a spokesman told Computerworld via email Thursday. Agency employees ...
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The rover Curiosity wrapped up its first full day on the Martian surface and is functioning perfectly,NASA officials said Tuesday. "Curiosity is asleep right now getting ready for tomorrow,"said Michael Watkins,a mission systems manager ...
Computerworld - Western Digital's HGST subsidiary may not have picked the best time to have a breakthrough in hard-disk drive innovation. After a decade of trying, HGST recently perfected a method to seal helium gas inside drives. The ...
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Computerworld - The problem: You want to send images into space and you want them to last 5 billion years. The solution: A gold-plated disc. That's the idea behind The Last Pictures project, which is scheduled to blast off in the next few ...
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A week after downplaying reports of a major discovery on Mars, NASA on Monday announced that the rover Curiosity has found complex chemicals on the surface of the planet. The space agency noted that it has yet to find definitive evidence ...
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NASA's space hunter, the Kepler Space Telescope, has wrapped up its prime mission and is moving into an extended four-year plan to continue searching for other worlds. The space agency announced Wednesday that the Kepler has completed its ...
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Intranet Connections announces the launch of their new eBook "101 Intranet Ideas" Social intranets are a vital commodity for enterprise business. Company productivity and employee performance are interlinked with staff morale, employee ...
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IDG News Service - We're barrelling down the runway at the Kennedy Space Center at about 300 kilometers per hour, and the Space Shuttle is well to the left of the center line. Astronaut Karol "Bo" Bobko, sitting next to me in the ...
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SignageTouch by SmartAVI allows a preloaded digital signage installation to be interactively triggered by a wireless remote control. SmartAVI, Inc., a world-leading innovator of digital signage and video/audio/control signal distribution ...
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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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More than six decades since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls - and thousands of years after they were written - Israel has put 5000 images of the ancient biblical artifacts online in a partnership with Google. The digital library ...
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NASA engineers rarely clap and cheer when their spacecraft crash. That wasn't the case today. Nearly one year after beginning to orbit the moon and helping scientists learn more about the internal structure andcomposition of the moon, ...
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