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coondoggie writes:
From cars made of firewood and bamboo to camouflaged vehicles, these are some cool cars
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coondoggie writes:
NASA wants to test out the 3-D printing technology onboard the International Space Station to find out if the technology could be used to manufacture parts in space.
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coondoggie writes:
The FBI today issued a warning that online criminals are using online photo-sharing programs like Instagram to initiate scams and dump malware on victims' computers.
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coondoggie writes:
The idea of building a robotic manufacturing facility in space might have been in the realm of a Star Wars, Star Trek or other science fiction story, but like some of the technologies in those tales, reality may soon imitate art.
Because asteroids are loaded with minerals that are rare on Earth, near-Earth asteroids and the asteroid belt could become the mining centers for remotely operated excavators and processing machinery. In 20 years, an industry barely imagined now could be sending refined materials, rare metals and even free, clean energy to the Earth from asteroids and other bodies," according to NASA scientists in a recently published paper entitled: "Affordable, Rapid Bootstrapping of the Space Industry and Solar System Civilization."
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coondoggie writes:
One of the companies that plans to mine asteroids in the future set a course for more immediate space exploration today by announcing a $1 million Kickstarter campaign to build a new space telescope.
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coondoggie writes:
The mantra is old, grant you, but worth repeating since its obvious from the amount of cybersecurity breaches that not everyone is listening. Speaking at the Georgetown Cybersecurity Law Institute this week, Deputy Attorney General of the United States James Cole said there are a ton of things companies can do to help government and vice-versa, combat cyber threats through better prevention, preparedness, and incidence response.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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
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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.
