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Belly up to the space bar boys. The dark beer masters are serving up a wild contest that will let two lucky people ride for free aboard the suborbital Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo spacecraft.
Looking to help eliminate the dangerous and inefficient hodgepodge of communication and network technology used by emergency response personnel, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today said it had picked 14 groups from across the country to pilot an ambitious Multi-Band Radio project. Read more
The Federal Trade Commission today announced a wide-ranging attack on cyber-vultures looking to feast on the current moribund economic situation. Read more
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NASA continued to develop its future moon landing program this week by getting a positive test on the rocket it might use to land humans on the moon and increasing the budget for the spacecraft it will use to get them there.
If you can squish all the processing power of say an IBM Roadrunner supercomputer inside a 19-inch box and make it run on about 60 kilowatts of electricity, the government wants to talk to you.
The extreme scientists at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency this week issued a call for research that might develop a super-small, super-efficient super beast of a computer. Read more
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Flying to the moon is not easy feat but communicating with as well as relaying information to and from rocketing space probes is the most critical part of the mission.
Two defendants charged in a massive scareware scheme will reconcile Federal Trade Commission charges and give up more than $116,000 in assets as part of an original $1.9 million settlement. Read more
IBM today is saying one of its researchers has made it possible for computer systems to perform calculations on encrypted data without decrypting it. While that sounds somewhat counterintuitive and complicated, IBM says the breakthrough would let computer services, such as Google or others storing the confidential, electronic data of others will be able to fully analyze data on their clients' behalf without expensive interaction with the client and without actually seeing any of the private data. Read more
The heart and sole of quantum computing - its quantum bits - tend to have a short shelf life but scientists are looking at a way to keep them around longer. Physicists have found a way to drastically prolong the shelf life of quantum bits, the 0s and 1s of quantum computers, letting them keep and act on data longer. Read more
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One way or another nine out of 10 adult Americans get weather forecasts an average of more than three times each day, adding up to 300 billion forecasts each year. And not only that, most people were satisfied with weather forecasts and had fairly high confidence in forecasts with a lead time of one to two days, despite appearances to the contrary.
The idea was good - help business travelers mostly zip through airport security checks. But those perks apparently weren't enough as Clear, the largest of the registered travelers service with over 165,000 members shut down last night.
On the company's Web site it stated:
At 11:00 p.m. PST on June 22, 2009, Clear will cease operations. Clear's parent company, Verified Identity Pass, Inc. has been unable to negotiate an agreement with its senior creditor to continue operations. Read more
That old car of yours may soon be worth more to you than you think. A $1 billion cash-for-clunkers bill has been sent to President Obama for his signature, after the Senate approved the bill as part of a broader $106 billion war spending package.
The idea is to stimulate car sales by offering as much as $4,500 to owners of older cars who trade in older, less-efficient vehicles. The act will go into effect 30 days after the president signs the bill, and will run through October 31. Read more
The Federal Communications Commission has a lot of work to do when it comes to regulating the burgeoning wireless industry.
For example, in 2008 of the 430,000 informal complaints it got from consumers, more than19,000 were directly related to wireless carriers services. But it is how the FCC handles, or doesn't handle in many cases, those complaints that has overseers more than a little concerned. Read more
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News today that the Air Force is investigating signal problems with its latest Global Positioning System satellite are likely to rekindle the flames of a congressional report last month that said the current GPS coverage may not be so ubiquitous in the future.
While NASA's commercial partners such as SpaceX and Orbital have made steady progress in developing space cargo transportation technology, they have recently fallen behind their development schedules. Combine that with the fact that the most critical steps lie ahead, including successfully launching new vehicles and completing integration with the space station and you have a hole that will be tough to climb out of. Read more
The US Department of Justice today said it helped crack a ring of fraudsters who allegedly hacked into the telephone systems of large corporations and entities in the United States and abroad and sold information about the compromised telephone systems to Pakistani nationals residing in Italy. Read more
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Alarmed by the amount of electricity data centers across the country are swallowing up, the government is offering up millions in research and development money to radically advance the energy efficiency of servers and telecommuni
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In this its 40th year of operating system life, some Unix stalwarts are trying to resurrect its past. That is they are taking on the unenviable and difficult job of restoring to its former glory old Unix software artifacts such as early Unix kernels, compilers and other important historical source code pieces.
The FBI today said it was warning what it called Asian business owners of a nationwide attempt to extort money via threats of violence over the phone.
Offering very little detail, the FBI said the telephone calls appear to be originating from foreign countries. The caller acquires an adequate amount of open source information about the victim through Internet searches. This misleads the victim into believing the subject has personal knowledge about the victim.
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Developing a an artificial intelligence system that can read, learn and develop knowledge about all manner of digital material in a quick, cost effective way sounds like a bit of a pipe dream. But those are some of the lofty items that are now on BBN Technology's plate as the firm this week got $29.7 million from the Air Force to develop a prototype
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