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  • NASA astronauts complete space station work

    NASA astronauts Friday wrapped up the fourth and final spacewalk of space shuttle Endeavour's last mission, moving a robotic arm from the space shuttle to its new home onboard the International Space Station.

    Written by Sharon Gaudin28 May 11 02:30
  • NASA astronauts boost robotics on space station

    NASA astronauts prepared today for their fourth and final spacewalk during the space shuttle Endeavour's last mission to the International Space Station.

    Written by Sharon Gaudin27 May 11 05:36
  • Amazon: E-books now outsell print books

    It had to happen: Amazon.com announced Thursday it is selling more Kindle e-books than print books, either hardcover or paperback.

    Written by Matt Hamblen20 May 11 05:50
  • Robotic exoskeleton helps paralyzed student walk

    Thanks to university researchers and a metal robotic exoskeleton, a paralyzed student at UC Berkeley was able to walk across the stage to receive his diploma over the weekend.

    Written by Sharon Gaudin17 May 11 02:04
  • Samsung now producing DDR 2.0 NAND flash, touts 3X performance gain

    Samsung Electronics announced that it is now producing high-performance DDR 2.0 multi-level-cell (MLC) memory chips based on its smallest 20-nanometer (nm) circuitry. The chips boast a performance improvement of three times over the company's current chip technology and have 64 gigabits of capacity, twice what Samsung had been producing with DDR 1.0 technology.

    Written by Lucas Mearian14 May 11 04:53
  • EMC to sell PCIe SSD cards for server acceleration

    LAS VEGAS -- As part of its strategy to touch just about every part of the private and public cloud infrastructure, EMC said today it will begin selling PCIe flash cards for servers to accelerate I/O to backend storage systems.

    Written by Lucas Mearian10 May 11 08:20
  • Intel's 3D transistor fuels tablet fight with ARM

    Intel's new 3D transistor technology should position the chip maker to grab hold of a piece of the burgeoning tablet market that it's been missing out on.

    Written by Sharon Gaudin06 May 11 07:28
  • NASA says Endeavour won't launch before May 8

    After calling off last Friday's planned final launch of the space shuttle Endeavour, NASA now says the earliest it might lift off is May 8.

    Written by Sharon Gaudin03 May 11 05:18
  • Programmer-turned-astronaut to lift off on NASA's Endeavour

    Mission Specialist Gregory Chamitoff settles in aboard the space shuttle Endeavour during the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Photo courtesy of NASA) One of the six men lifting off onboard NASA's space shuttle Endeavour Friday is a computer programmer who built software for spacecraft before becoming an astronaut.

    Written by Sharon Gaudin29 April 11 04:55
  • IBM's Watson not as smart as you think

    CAMBRIDGE, MASS. -- As smart as IBM's Watson supercomputer may have seemed while defeating two former Jeopardy champions , it wouldn't be able to hold a conversation with or speak intelligently to the attendees at its own conference, according to artificial intelligence (A.I.) experts who spoke at MIT Monday.

    Written by Lucas Mearian13 April 11 03:08
  • NASA's Messenger grabs historic image of Mercury

    This photo taken by the Messenger spacecraft from Mercury's orbit shows an area near the planet's south pole. (Image: NASA) NASA spacecraft Messenger delivered its first photograph of Mercury -- the first image of the planet taken from its own orbit.

    Written by Sharon Gaudin31 March 11 02:36
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