Why have satellite makers and astronomers beaten a path across Essex? To get to the best image sensors in the world, probably. E2V not only made the CheMin and ChemCam image sensors within NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, it is also the ...
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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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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Monday flexed its 7-foot-long robotic arm for the first time since it landed on Mars. Monday's robotics maneuver had the rover checking its motors and joints by unstowing the arm, extending it using all five ...
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Cyber crime has continued to become more professional in 2012, with the barriers to entry becoming ever lower with the emergence of increasingly powerful toolkits and exploits for sale online. In the past year, cyber criminals have used ...
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Want to be a part of International Space Station research Here's your chance. NASA is offering opportunities for academia, industry and government agencies to develop and carry out research and technology demonstrations on the space station ...
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Sunflower Systems , the leader in enterprise asset management software and solutions announces another top-tier government contractor has selected Sunflowers' Enterprise Government Property Management Solution. Part of a $36B global ...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is making a foray into the data warehousing segment with the launch of Redshift, a cloud-based data warehouse service. It announced the Redshift service, along with Amazon S3 price cuts, at its first ever user ...
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Information technology professionals say companies can gain a competitive advantage by buying products and services from startup tech vendors, but they stress that doing business with a young company involves risks. If CIOs choose to ...
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NASA today blunted reports of a potentially history-making discovery on Mars. NPR.com had reported last week that John Grotzinger, NASA's principal investigator for the Mars rover Curiosity mission, told it the rover's SAM instrument, ...
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This is the third in a series of interviews with C-level executives responsible for cyber security and privacy in business and government, who also happen to be thought leaders. (Remember, as I mentioned previously, "C-level executive" and ...
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Computerworld - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity successfully tested its laser on Sunday, blasting a fist-size Martian rock and analyzing its makeup. The rover's Chemistry and Camera instrument, dubbed the ChemCam, zapped the rock with 30 ...
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IDG News Service - Red Hat plans to release an enterprise grade version of the OpenStack open source software for hosting IaaS (infrastructure as a service) deployments. The company has posted an unsupported preview edition of the package, ...
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Computerworld - NASA programmers and engineers will begin upgrading the Mars Curiosity rover's software Saturday, increasing its ability to move and use its robotic arm. The software upgrade, dubbed R10, was uploaded to the rover during ...
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IDG News Service - One of the most complicated missions ever attempted by NASA, the landing of the one-ton rover Curiosity inside a crater on Mars after a 500 million kilometer journey, has apparently gone without a hitch. Curiosity ...
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