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NASA Awards Contract for Suborbital Flight Services

June 2, 2016 RELEASE 16-056 NASA has selected Blue Origin, LLC, in Van Horn, Texas, to integrate and fly technology payloads near the boundary of space on their New Shepard suborbital spacecraft in support of NASA’s...

NASA Satellite Finds Unreported Sources of Toxic Air Pollution

June 1, 2016 RELEASE 16-05 Using a new satellite-based method, scientists at NASA, Environment and Climate Change Canada, and two universities have located 39 unreported and major human-made sources of toxic sulfur dioxide emissions. A known health...

The First REAL Personal Robot?? It’s Amazing!! [VIDEO]

Taipei, Taiwan (30th May, 2016) — ASUS Chairman Jonney Shih took the stage today during the Zenvolution press event at Computex 2016 to unveil Zenbo, the first ASUS robot, along with a stunning portfolio...
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NASA Televises, Hosts Events for Deployment of First Expandable Habitat on International Space Station

20 May 2016 | NASA The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) will be deployed to its full size Thursday, May 26, and begin its two-year technology demonstration attached to the International Space Station. NASA Television...
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Now Available Globally: Fast.com, a New Tool to Check Your Internet Speed

18 May 2016 | NETFLIX Today we are launching fast.com, a simple-to-use website to help you see how fast your Internet connection is, whether on mobile or broadband, anywhere in the world. And like the...
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EFF Asks Court to Reverse Chelsea Manning’s Conviction for Violating Federal Anti-Hacking Law

19 May 2016 | Electronic Frontier Foundation Fort Belvoir, Virginia—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) askeda U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals Wednesday to overturn Chelsea Manning’s conviction for violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act...
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4K Video of Earth from International Space Station [VIDEO]

NASA monitors Earth's vital signs from land, air and space with a fleet of satellites and ambitious airborne and ground-based observation campaigns. The International Space Station hosts a variety of payloads and experiments supporting...
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May 12, 2016 Press Release By Justin Osofsky, VP Global Operations At Facebook, we stand for connecting every person — for a global community, for bringing people together, for giving all people a voice, for a free...
NASA has selected eight technology proposals for investment that have the potential to transform future aerospace missions

From ‘Magnetoshells’ to Growable Habitats, NASA Invests in Next Stage of Visionary Technology Development

May 13, 2016 RELEASE 16-053 NASA has selected eight technology proposals for investment that have the potential to transform future aerospace missions, introduce new capabilities, and significantly improve current approaches to building and operating aerospace systems. Awards...
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NFCC to Compete in NASA Challenge

Ten NFCC Students Selected for NASA Florida Space Grant Consortium Program NFCC Defending 1st Place Title at 2016 NASA Engineering Challenges Competition MADISON, FL – Ten North Florida Community College students will travel to Kennedy Space...

Critical NASA Science Returns to Earth aboard SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft

May 11, 2016 RELEASE 16-052   A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at 2:51 p.m. EDT Wednesday, May 11, about 261 miles southwest of Long Beach, California, with more than 3,700 pounds...

Incidents of Ransomware on the Rise

Hospitals, school districts, state and local governments, law enforcement agencies, small businesses, large businesses—these are just some of the entities impacted recently by ransomware, an insidious type of malware that encrypts, or locks, valuable...

The 2016 physics season starts at the LHC

09 May 2016 Geneva, 9 May 2016. CERN1's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and its experiments are back in action, now taking physics data for 2016 that will give us an improved understanding of fundamental physics. On...

IBM Watson to Tackle Cybercrime

ARMONK, N.Y. - 10 May 2016: IBM Security (NYSE: IBM) today announced Watson for Cyber Security, a new cloud-based version of the company's cognitive technology trained on the language of security as part of...

Alex Kipman Demonstrates HaloLens

For the first time ever, Microsoft HoloLens seamlessly blends high-definition holograms with your real world. Holograms will improve the way you do things every day, and enable you to do things you've never done...