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coondoggie writes:
The IT department at the nation’s Copyright Office needs more than a little work. A report out this week from the watchdogs at the Government Accountability Office points out a number of different technical and management woes that see to start at the top – with the CIO (a position that has a number of problems in its own right) and flows down to the technology, or lack-thereof.
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coondoggie writes:
NASA officials today said they have picked the specific asteroid mission and offered new details for that mission which could launch in the 2020 timeframe. Specifically, NASA’s associate administrator Robert Lightfoot said the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) will rendezvous with the target asteroid, land a robotic spacecraft on the surface, grab a 4 meter or so sized boulder and begin a six-year journey to redirect the boulder into orbit around the moon for exploration by astronauts.
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coondoggie writes:
Researchers at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency are looking to discover — through a program called Analog and Continuous-variable Co-processors for Efficient Scientific Simulation (ACCESS) — what advances analog computers might have over today’s supercomputers for a large variety of specialized applications such as fluid dynamics or plasma physics.
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coondoggie writes:
Either there’s a serious problem at the Social Security Administration or we as a people are indeed living WAY longer than we used to. Judging from expert testimony and a couple Federal reports issued on Capital Hill this week, you can probably guess where the problem lies. Hint: Despite what the SSA says, there really aren’t 6.5 million 112 year-olds.
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coondoggie writes:
Lockheed Martin is certainly no stranger to spacecraft and it is now using that expertise to offer up a new ship capable of resupplying the International Space Station and other missions. The company this week rolled out a three-part space system: a reusable space servicing vehicle called Jupiter; a large, versatile cargo container named the Exoliner; and a robotic arm.
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coondoggie writes:
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded the first contracts to vendors that will build the ultimate auto-pilot — an automated system that can help take care of all phases of aircraft flight-even helping pilots overcome facing failures in-flight
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coondoggie writes:
This person must have been looking to win the “wackiest thing Transportation Security Administration agents found on travelers this week” merit badge. TSA security officials found a real, live Chihuahua pooch in a checked hard-sided bag at New York’s La Guardia airport last week.
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coondoggie writes:
Despite a number of efforts the Federal Trade Commission hasn’t been able to kill off robocalls so it is once again turning to the public with two new challenges to come up with a solution to the scourge.
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coondoggie writes:
Few areas of the enterprise are as ripe for change as the wide area network. And there are plenty of technologies – from hybrid WAN services and software defined networking to better management tools — lining up to push such a makeover closer to reality.
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coondoggie writes:
The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., this week said it had created a Cisco Archive that promises to document and preserve the networking giant’s impact on the industry and Internet.
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coondoggie writes:
Given the amount of time the FTC and others have put into curing the robocall problem, it is disheartening to hear that a group of companies for almost a year have been making billions of illegal robocalls. The Federal Trade Commission and 10 state attorneys general today said they have settled charges against a Florida-based cruise line company and seven other companies that averaged 12 million to 15 million illegal sales calls a day between October 2011 through July 2012, according to the joint complaint filed by the FTC and the states
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coondoggie writes:
The CIA today noted an interesting anniversary – it was 20 years ago this month that the world first “officially” introduced to the world’s first imaging reconnaissance satellite, codenamed Corona.
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coondoggie writes:
The Artic Circle pretty much has been a damn cold, desolate place but no so anymore what with the military’s increased attention and commercial growing prospects. Those are the main reasons the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency cites for wanting to build an advanced generation of sensors capable of transmitting data on air, surface and/or undersea activities above the Arctic Circle for at least 30 days.
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coondoggie writes:
Will it be possible to actually communicate with a computer and have it understand context, gestures and even its human counterparts facial expressions? Such notions are usually reserved for the screenplays of science fiction novels and movies. A new Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program however wants to take such ideas out of the science fiction realm and make them reality in the next few years.
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coondoggie writes:
Lazy, entitled, selfish and shallow – that’s one description of what’s known as the Millennial
Pretty crappy reputation, I’d say. But IBM did a study recently that busts a number of the Millennial Employee stereotypes finding that, well, maybe they are more victims of a character assassination.
