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Friday 22 March 2013

NASA - NASA Extends Hubble Space Telescope Science Operations Contract

NASA Extends Hubble Space Telescope Science Operations Contract WASHINGTON -- NASA is extending its contract with the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy for the agency's Hubble Space Telescope Science Operations activities at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., for 36 months.

More than three weeks after arriving at the International Space Station, the Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) Dragon spacecraft is ready for the trip back to Earth, now scheduled for Tuesday, March 26.

Until 2.1.1-beta the functions exposed in custom rankers for handling relevancy based on term frequency and Inverse Document Frequency (IDF) did not take field or document lengths into account. In 2.1.1-beta, Sphinx includes functions that take relevance ranking to the next level.

Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #59) - Windows Azure - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

First, two guys at a programming conference made some jokes about big dongles and wanting to fork some other guy's repo, and the woman sitting in front them took offensive. Then she snapped their photo, shuttled it onto Twitter, and told her 11,000 followers what the two coders had said.

NewsBlur is a one-man operation that was humming along quite nicely, but when Google announced Reader would shutdown, NewsBlur saw a massive traffic spike - in a few short days NewsBlur more than doubled its user base.

Three cheers! Apple has finally gotten around to adding support for multi-factor authentication for its Apple ID system. Finally, users will be able to log in to their iCloud accounts with peace of mind. It's just a shame it took so long.

Connector/Net is a fully-managed ADO.NET driver for MySQL.

The batteries' unique design could smooth out the power from renewables and help usher in the rise of more resilient microgrids THE future of energy storage has taken root on an onion farm in southern California. Seeking to offset its electricity bills, Gills Onions in Oxnard has installed a flow battery.

Mozilla has just rolled out OdinMonkey, a new module for Firefox's JavaScript engine that promises to speed up JavaScript execution beyond your wildest dreams. If you were drawn to Chrome because of its superior JavaScript performance, or to Internet Explorer because of its neat separate-process Chakra JavaScript engine, OdinMonkey -- which can boost JavaScript performance by 1000% or more -- will put you firmly back in the Firefox camp.

A new agreement announced today between Canonical and the China Software and Integrated Chip Promotions Centre (CSIP) has just been made which will pave the way for Ubuntu to become the new basis of Kylin. Western corporations seeking new opportunity in the East may not be such a surprise for us, but it may raise some new concerns.

By Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog Editor We posted once before about the Google Art Project, a very cool endeavor to make museum art available online to people around the world. We're writing about it again today because the project has just expanded to include a bunch of great new stuff, including ancient works, contemporary art, and even urban art.

CodePlex - Open Source Project Hosting

Microsoft's open source project hosting web site. You can use CodePlex to find open source software or create new projects to share with the world.

Webmaster level: All To help webmasters manage the verified owners for their websites in Webmaster Tools, we've recently introduced three new features: Verification details view: You can now see the methods used to verify an owner for your site. In the Manage owners page for your site, you can now find the new Verification details link.

Developing for HDInsight

Friday, March 22, 2013 at 9:29AM Hey, it's HighScalability time: 1 Billion/Month : Active Mostly Mobile YouTube Users Quotable Quotes: @NeckbeardHacker: "Wait...he reimplemented swatch and rsync in chef, node and mongo?""Yup." "......Why?""Go easy on him...he's a Ninjipsterstar." @b6n: Scale myth #1: Your service is a unique snowflake.

You've found a need to perform some cryptographic operations in your WebWorks application? BlackBerry 10 has a FIPS 140-2 validated library built in... Here's the basis of a native extension to allow you to access Security Builder functionality. The extension is available on our Github repo . Fork it and have a look!

Photo credit to events.india Now that HackU has reached Kharagpur for the 3rd year in a row, students are able to identify technical challenges facing the Web industry (e.g., Local, Social, Media, Commerce, Connections, and Content platforms).

People around the world are using the web as a platform to both showcase and create amazing local culture. In the last six months, Chrome has played host to some of Indonesia's finest up-and-coming artistic talent with the Chrome Open Spaces project.

I once had a professor who claimed that Viagra was the logical endpoint of all science. "We did it!" he exclaimed, one day in class. All those millions of years ago, he argued, the first real attempt at a medical experiment probably came in the form of a thick-browed Neanderthal chewing on a leaf and hoping for some aphrodisiac effects.

NASA has signed a one-year contract option with Jacobs Technology, Inc., of New Orleans to continue manufacturing support and facilities operations at the agency's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.

Wrapping up our summer, times 4

The jQuery Mobile team is happy to announce 1.2.1. This is the first maintenance release for 1.2 and contains fixes throughout the library. Try it now!

When Google announced Reader would shutdown, nearly all its competitors saw a massive traffic spike. Most were well-funded startups with resources to scale, but NewsBlur, a one-man operation, managed to more than double its user base in a few short days without all the startup trappings.

News from the Python community: Python trademark dispute resolved! The Python Software Foundation thanks the community for their support during our European Union trademark dispute. We have settled the dispute and have now obtained the trademark within the EU, and our opponent has ceased using the Python name for their services.

Twenty years ago today, Intel launched the Pentium 60 CPU and changed the computing world for ever. Believe it or not, a revision of the original Pentium core still lives on today, in Intel's bleeding-edge, 50-core Xeon Phi -- a plug-in coprocessor that ushers us towards exascale supercomputing.

10:20, Electronics/Robotics For easy calculation a robot simplifies the image of a human to a skeleton of dots and lines. The volume around the hands is examined to see what object the human is using. Credit: Saxena Lab(Phys.org) -Robots can observe human behavior and-like a human baby-deduce a reasonable approach to handling specific objects.

Capturing was a key feature of Mobify.js 1.1, our framework for creating mobile and tablet websites using client-side templating. We have since reworked Mobify.js in our 2.0 release to be a much more modular library that can be used in any existing website, with Capturing as the primary focus.

Massimo and I had the chance to visit a Labitat makerspace in Copenhagen. I had to thank to let us in on a non-visit day and move underground, where the lab is.

The year is 1974, and Arthur C. Clarke is standing inside one of those cavernous computer centers that held the massive machines of the day.

Latest experiments in improving low-light camera performance

Some of us like the big screen and some love the physical keyboard. The BlackBerry 10 platform embraces both form factors. As developers, we have a few more things to consider when targeting different form factors. The aim should be to create the best app for each type of device.

THE sound of a violin bow across strings can be exquisite. But bowing well is hard to master. Now that smooth grace is encapsulated in a new kind of electronic instrument. Developed by Dylan Menzies at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK, the O-Bow uses optical sensors to track the movement of a real violin bow across a groove in a metal instrument.

In this post we are going to see how we can do CRUD operations with ASP.NET MVC and PetaPoco Micro ORM. What is PetaPoco? Petapoco is a tiny ORM developed by topten software. As per them it's a tiny, fast, single-file micro-ORM for .NET and Mono.

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