Less than two months into its mission, NASA scientists say the Curiosity rover has found evidence of a "vigorous" thousand-year water flow on the surface of Mars. This is exciting news for NASA scientists who sent the nuclear-powered, ...
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Cloud computing will move supercomputers out of the research labs and into c, it was claimed this week. Dial-up supercomputing services are making it possible for smaller companies to analyse vast quantities of data, run engineering ...
NASA's control room erupted with cheers as confirmation reached Earth that the Curiosity rover successfully landed on Mars. Scientists and engineers hugged, sobbed and punched the air as the first images from the rover's cameras came down. ...
Gary McKinnon will not face prosecution in the UK for his alleged hacking of US government computer systems. The hacker, who suffers from Asperger's syndrome, was accused of hacking into military and Nasa computers in 2002, leading to the ...
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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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The Mars Curiosity Rover, a robot sent to Mars by Nasa principally to investigate the possibility of extra-terrestrial life on the planet, uses many technologies which will be familiar to those in the tech industry. It landed in a crater ...
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A recliner is an armchair or sofa that reclines when the occupant lowers the chair's back and raises its front. It has a backrest that can be tilted back, and often a footrest that may be extended by means of a lever on the side of the ...
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Cisco has acquired vCider, a provider of virtual network overlay technology to support its Open Network Environment (ONE) strategy. VCider will become part of the company’s cloud computing division and support Cisco’s role in ...
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The Ghost Shell group, an offshoot of the Anonymous hacking collective has published the log-in details from 1.6 million accounts. The credentials were stolen from a series of hack attacks on Nasa, the FBI, the European Space Agency and ...
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - IT leaders say they enjoy working with startups, but doing so successfully requires understanding the level of risk, managing that risk and setting reasonable expectations. That was the consensus during a panel ...
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US space agency Nasa is to encrypt all its mobile computers after the loss of a laptop containing personal information about more than 10,000 employees and contractors. Until the encryption process is complete, staff members are forbidden ...
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HOUSTON, TX, America's space program has come a long way from the early days when astronauts ate food packed in toothpaste tubes. Today, nutrition is known to be a key ingredient in astronaut health in space, just as it is for humans on ...
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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 planning a test to replace fluorescent lighting panels in the ISS with a solid-state LED lighting module which produces blue, white, or reddish light depending on the time. It hopes that this change will serve as a counter-measure ...
With the Mars Curiosity rover's science instruments working well, NASA engineers are getting ready for two big tests of their robotic rover -- blasting a rock with a laser beam and getting the rover moving. Curiosity's first drive will be ...
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