46784183
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coondoggie writes
"When to comes to offering warm yet visually efficient lighting, LEDs have a long way to go. But scientists with the University of Georgia and Oak Ridge and Argonne national laboratories are looking at new family of crystals they say glow different colors and hold the key for letting white LED light shine in homes and offices as well as natural sunlight."Link to Original Source
46740993
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coondoggie writes
"NASA and a team of other experts will in the next few weeks evaluate options for recovering the crippled space telescope Kepler. NASA's Kepler, which has been incredibly successful at spotting potentially habitable-zone planets since 2009, lost its control mechanism this month and has been rendered largely inactive."Link to Original Source
46677605
submission
coondoggie writes
"Ethernet's value to networking and IT is well established over the past 40 years. But did you know that "Ethernet" refers to two slightly different ways of sending information between endpoints on a LAN? That and some other perhaps lesser known facts about this 40-year-old technology."Link to Original Source
46595381
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coondoggie writes
"Google, NASA and Universities Space Research Association this week invested roughly $15 million in a 512-qubit quantum computer their researchers will use to develop myriad applications from machine learning, web search and speech recognition to searching for exoplanets. The machine known as D-Wave Two and built by D-Wave Systems will be installed at the new Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab, a collaboration among NASA, Google and USRA."Link to Original Source
46539005
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coondoggie writes
"You'd need an umbrella made of kryptonite if you were to go walking on Mars apparently.
NASA scientists using images from the space agency's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) have estimated that the planet is bombarded by more than 200 small asteroids or bits of comets per year forming craters at least 12.8 feet (3.9 meters) across."Link to Original Source
46533791
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coondoggie writes
"The Department of Homeland Security recently put out a call to the wireless industry looking for information on the best biometric technology available for mobile devices that could help it quickly identify suspects in the field. The DHS said it is the devices need to be capable of obtaining biometric (fingerprints and facial recognition) and biographic information and communicating wirelessly through a virtual private network (VPN)."Link to Original Source
46504183
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coondoggie writes
"The FBI and Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) issued their annual look at the state of the dark side of the Internet which is indeed thriving with all manner of scams and intimation tactics being used by criminals. While complaints filed with the IC3 are down slightly through 2012 over 2011 (289,874 v. 314,246, respectively), losses from online scams are up over 8% topping out at over $525 million through the same time period."Link to Original Source
46503873
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bednarz writes
"Time flies. Nick Carr’s divisive article, 'IT Doesn’t Matter,' is 10 years old this month. Carr, his editor at Harvard Business Review, and tech analysts talk about the impact http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/051413-carr-269729.html of the article ('It's still a bit of a raw nerve for a lot of people,' one said), and Carr answers questions http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/051413-carr-qa-269730.html about what he got right, what he got wrong ('I think I probably understated the new things that IT departments would have to grapple with,' Carr said), and how the article is still relevant today. Here’s a nearly 10-year-old Slashdot discussion about the article http://ask.slashdot.org/story/03/11/19/1858204/does-it-matter"Link to Original Source
46378461
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coondoggie writes
"Skylab was an ambitious space program designed to test all manner of until-that-time unproven thoughts about space — mainly, could man really live for long periods in orbit? But it produced way more scientific data than that: For example, it produced a vast study of the Earth's crust, one of the first comprehensive studies of the sun, a closer look at comets, and manufactured alloys and crystals. Here we have gathered up a bunch of Skylab facts from NASA History Office for an overview of the mission that NASA will celebrate this month."Link to Original Source
46352051
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coondoggie writes
"ASA today said it was moving ahead with its plan to hold a Centennial Challenge completion next year that will ultimately result in future unmanned aircraft technology. NASA said it picked Development Projects of Dayton, Ohio, to manage the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Airspace Operations Challenge competition that will focus on a variety emerging drone technologies but particularly the aircraft's ability to sense and avoid other air traffic."Link to Original Source
46309459
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coondoggie writes
"raditional high-powered cathode electron emitter-based equipment for high-bandwidth communications, security screening or imaging applications can run hot, significantly shortening the lifespan and usefulness of the equipment. A new program from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency called Advanced Cathode Development is looking to remedy that situation by developing what the agency calls "cold" cathode electron emitter technology that "can operate at a temperature of less than 1000 C."Link to Original Source
46166843
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coondoggie writes
"The trio of Android smartphones NASA blasted into orbit recently have ended their journey by burning up in the atmosphere, but not before snapping shots of Earth — and the pictures don't look too bad. The "PhoneSats" were a NASA experiment to develop super-cheap satellites and to determine whether a consumer-grade smartphone can be used as the main flight avionics of a capable satellite, NASA said.
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46108147
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coondoggie writes
"People can toss around the phrase "game-changer" with perhaps a little to much ease these days but the two-minute short animated film "Luxo Jr'" released in 1986 by Pixar could be argued invented the term — at least in the world of computer animation."Link to Original Source
46051399
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coondoggie writes
"Not that it's going to give the next Daniel Day Lewis movie a run for Oscar gold, but IBM today said it had created the world's smallest movie made from thousands of precisely placed atoms on nearly 250 frames of stop motion action."Link to Original Source
46013825
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coondoggie writes
"If smartwatches and other ultra-small devices are to become the text generators of the future, their diminutive keyboards are going to have to be way more useful for, um, big fingered typists. Carnegie Mellon researchers may have the answer to that problem. Called ZoomBoard, the text entry technique is based on the iconic QWERTY keyboard layout."Link to Original Source