Government

Zapped! Mars rover Curiosity is down after a short circuit

NASA engineers work on a long-distance fix for the robotic rover on Mars

International Space Station marks 15 years in Earth’s orbit

Second brightest object in our night sky has been home to 200 astronauts, 1,500 experiments

Mars manned mission: “2018 is our last chance to be first”

Dennis Tito outlines philanthropical group “Inspire Mars” plan to get NASA, Orbital and others working as one to get humans close to Red Planet ASAP

Fake Windows tech support calls continue to plague consumers

A year after an FTC crackdown, scammers persist in trying to dupe PC owners

ICANN leaders push for broad-based Internet governance

ICANN will push for continuation of the current Internet oversight model at a meeting in April

Federal CIOs Look to Platform-as-a-Service for Software Development

US senators challenge in court NSA claim that dragnet surveillance is required

The senators are questioning the need for bulk collection of phone records by the U.S. National Security Agency

Court shuts down online business listing operation

The operation billed small businesses and churches for listings they didn't order, the FTC alleges

Perspective: Curbing data use is key to reining in NSA

Proposed legislation and rules focus mostly on curbing data collection activities, not on controlling use of personal data

Supreme Court refusal to block NSA data collection not surprising

With two cases pending in lower courts, justices probably wanted to defer decisions to them