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Wednesday, 27 March 2013
NASA, SpaceX Discuss Dragon Mission to Space Station
NASA and SpaceX will host a teleconference for news media at 1 p.m. EDT, Thursday, March 28, to discuss the Tuesday return of the company's Dragon spacecraft from a cargo mission to the International
CodePlex Daily Summary for Wednesday, March 27, 2013
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.
Petit four, the quick and easy online CakePHP baking tool
In our Web agency we have been glad to use CakePHP for almost two years as it has really helped us speed up our projects.However from time to time there are still some tasks that feel a bit slow or ti
Education Awards on Google App Engine
Last year we invited proposals for innovative projects built on Google's infrastructure. Today we are pleased to announce the 11 recipients of a Google App Engine Education Award . Professors and their students are using the award in cloud computing courses to study databases, distributed systems, web mashups and to build educational applications.
Call for Arduino music at Gwendalyn Festival 2013
(Italian version below) Are you a musician, music amateur, electronic bricoleur or maker who makes music by creating your own instruments and tools using Arduino? We are looking for your music tracks to be presented in a radio program entirely dedicated to (DIY) music made with Arduino based synths and instruments.The program is scheduled within the GwenFestival program, an international music and radio festival organized in Chiasso (TI, Switzerland) during April 2013.
Quality control opens path to synthetic biology's Ikea
A new scoring system that rates biological components according to how reliable they are should let bioengineers mass-produce living machines<img width="1" height="1" src="http://feeds.newscientist.co
How a surgeon installs seizure sensors inside a skull
Anil Ananthaswamy watches a brain surgeon implanting electrodes inside the skull of a person with epilepsy to pinpoint where his seizures start<img width="1" height="1" src="http://feeds.newsci
History | Professor Enlists Android Phones in Search for Black Holes
David Anderson wasn't interested in the aliens. He was interested in a worldwide network of computers down here on Earth. Anderson is a computer science professor at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1995, one of his grad students suggested they pool the processing power from personal computers across the globe and use this extra computing juice to track down extraterrestrial life.
Knowing the unknown: Researchers work to build robots' awareness of their own limitations
07:31, Electronics/Robotics Credit: Allegra Boverman and Christine daniloff/MITRobot butlers that tidy your house or cook you a meal have long been the dream of science-fiction writers and artificial intelligence researchers alike.
DW radio on coding in schools and Pi
DW Radio in Germany (which is broadcast in the English language) broadcast a short piece on coding in schools in the UK, with emphasis on the Pi. You can <a href="http://www.dw.de/popups/mediaplaye
MongoDB 2.4 Javascript Changes
The upcoming release of MongoDB 2.4 brings an exciting change to the JavaScript engine. Previously, MongoDB ran Spidermonkey 1.7,
Danish Robot Arms Reach Across North America
A UR5 robot from Universal Robots works right alongside the employees in the production of gear wheels at BJ-Gear. BJ Gear is one of the world's leading manufacturers of special gears, precision gears and transmissions. The company had been looking to automate production for several years but was reluctant to acquire solutions from robot manufacturers as these were too costly and complex.
Crowd-sensing apps tap every stranger's eyes and ears
When social networks and location apps collide, you can suddenly ask people anywhere what's happening where they are. What will you want to know?<img width="1" height="1" src="http://feeds.newscientis
Open-Captions, Using Closed Captions as Meta Data for ASL
This post originally appeared on the Yahoo! Accessibility blog.
What is Open-Captions?
Qt Installer Framework 1.3 released
Thus far, the Qt Installer Framework has been used to create Qt SDK Installers. You can now use it also to create installers for your own applications. This is why we decided to make a formal r
Volcanoes mark the spot for Africa's buried energy treasure
East Africa is sitting on a mother lode of geothermal energy. Could volcanoes be the key to tapping it?<img width="1" height="1" src="http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10899/s/2a0ef294/mf.gif" bor
The Changing Face of Scale - The Downside of Scaling in the Contextual Age
Wednesday, March 27, 2013 at 9:38AM Robert Scoble is a kind of Brothers Grimm for the digital age. Instead of inspired romantics walking around the country side collecting the folk tales of past ages, he is an inspired technologist documenting the current mythology of startups.
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