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Submission Summary: 0 pending, 38 declined, 4 accepted (42 total, 9.52% accepted)

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Programming

Submission + - Interactive 3D Graphics on Webpages

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Pooua
Pooua writes: "I would like to create a 3D world on a Website such that users could move around the world, zoom in and out and launch active content from the map. Long ago, I considered using VRML for this task. What sorts of software of this type exists today that is reliable and easy to use?"
IBM

Submission + - IBM Researchers Develop Nanophotonic Switch (cnn.com)

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Pooua
Pooua writes: "IBM researchers have developed a nanophotonic switch 100x smaller than the diameter of a human hair. The goal is to use light instead of electrons to move data inside a computer chip. Previous IBM advances towards this goal are also mentioned."
Hardware Hacking

Submission + - New transparent plastic strong as steel (spacemart.com)

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Pooua
Pooua writes: "A new, transparent plastic, made of clay and glue, is as strong as steel and as thin as a sheet of paper. It is built up of nanoscale clay structures applied in sheets with glue. It takes a few hours to build up the 300 layers used for a single sheet."
Space

Submission + - NASA & Google Collaborate On New Moon Map (moondaily.com)

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Pooua
Pooua writes: "NASA and Google have teamed up to update Google's Moon map to match NASA's coordinate system. Additional multimedia content has been added to the site. From the "Moon Daily" website,

"New higher resolution lunar imagery and maps including NASA multimedia content now are available on the Google Moon Web site. Updates include new content from the Apollo missions, including dozens of embedded panoramic images, links to audio clips and videos, and descriptions of the astronauts' activities during the missions. The new content is overlaid on updated, higher-resolution lunar maps. Also added are detailed charts of different regions of the moon suitable for use by anyone simulating a lunar mission.

"'NASA's objective is for Google Moon to become a more accurate and useful lunar mapping platform that will be a foundation for future web-based moon applications, much like the many applications that have been built on top of Google Maps,' said Chris C. Kemp, director of strategic business development at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif."

Moon Daily: NASA Maps The Moon With Google

Google Moon"
Space

Submission + - Digitized Apollo Flight Films Available Online (spaceref.com)

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Pooua
Pooua writes: "SpaceRef reports that NASA and Arizona State University have teamed up to offer all of NASA's Apollo lunar images online at no charge. The images are scanned at high resolution, then offered as 16-bit TIFF or 8-bit PNG or ISIS files. The project is expected to take 3 years, but some images are already available. The ASU-NASA website is Arizona State University Apollo Image Archive"
Security

Submission + - Computer Program Cuts Risk of Crashes and Exploits

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Pooua
Pooua writes: "Emery Berger, of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, has developed a computer program that he claims greatly reduces the risk of application crashes and common hacker exploits by separating programs far apart from each other in RAM. Berger's program, called DieHard, is available at no charge for non-commercial use.

Spacewar: New Computer Program Prevents Crashes And Hacker Attacks"

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