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Monday, 6 May 2013

NASA Invites Media to Annual Lunabotics Mining Competition

Fifty teams of undergraduate and graduate students from around the world will demonstrate their lunar excavator robots May 20 - 24 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

A robot can struggle to discover objects in its surroundings when it relies on computer vision alone. But by taking advantage of all of the information available to it?an object's location, size, shap

Harish Ganesan CTO of 8KMiles has a very helpful blog, Cloud, Big Data and Mobile , where he...

The TF-X will build on the company's Transition flying car and will allow drivers to takeoff and land vertically. (Credit: Terrafugia) Frustrated commuters may soon have some more good news from Terrafugia, the maker of the Transition flying car.

Swarm

Swarm (GitHub: gritzko / swarm, License: MIT) by Victor Grishchenko is a da

08:32, Electronics/Robotics Student Angel Garcia use his eyes, eyebrows and other parts of his face to make the robot move. Credit: Thor NielsenThis is Angel Perez Garcia. He can make a robot move exactly as he wants via the electrodes attached to his head.

Don't get me wrong, I love our Momentics IDE. It provides many features that help to build apps rapidly including the QML previewer and code auto-completion. Sometimes, however, it can be extremely useful to know what's going on under-the-hood. This article will aim to explain how to build a native app from the command line, [...]

<img src="http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/frank-frankovsky-whiteboard.jpg" alt="Data Centers | The Facebook Special: How Intel Builds Custom Chips for Giants of th

During the Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2013 the week before last, we quietly released Percona Toolkit 2.2.2 with a few

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Building a Real-Time Photo Gallery with Xamarin, SignalR, Azure, and WebAPI

Lately I've been throwing around the idea of writing an app for my wedding, and started thinking of what I'd want to put in it. One feature that I thought could be fun would be to let guests upload photos directly from the app and display them both to other guests and on our site in real time.

Discover the MakerFaire Rome Ambassador kit with an Arduino Uno limited edition

The first european MakerFaire is coming up and the clock is ticking while the Call for Makers closes next 2nd of June. That's why we thought to launch a call for collaboration to local hubs, makerspaces and fablab into helping us spreading the word.

NASA will provide live video of the event, as well as a live chat with Bill Cooke, head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. (Credit: Bill Cooke/NASA-MSFC) The meteor shower created by the debris trail of Halley's Comet will peak Sunday evening, and NASA is providing a live view of the celestial fireworks show.

For 30 years, the Canadarm was the space shuttle's right hand in orbit. It now has a place in the Canada Aviation and Space Museum.

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A week of symfony #331 (29 April -> 5 May 2013) This week, the first beta of Symfony 2.3.0 was released. The most relevant additions were the new comparison validators, the requirement of the debug component to maintain BC, and the possibility to log fatal errors in production.

AI card game knows how to bend the rules

TEXAS Hold 'Em or Five Card Stud? There could soon be a better way to settle a poker night argument. Julian Togelius at the IT University of Copenhagen in Denmark and colleagues have developed an AI system that generates new card games from scratch.

PIECING together details of a car accident or crime scene could become a bit easier thanks to star-like cracks in glassy substances. These characteristic patterns can reveal the speed of the objects that made them. It has long been known that different materials require different amounts of energy to crack .

ASSEMBLING flat-pack furniture can be a painful experience. Curses, misinterpreted instructions and "missing" components are all par for the course - if you're a human, that is. But harassed homeowners can take heart, thanks to a robotic duo that can assemble an Ikea coffee table, all by themselves, albeit rather slowly.

CALL it a magnet's answer to optical fibres: a hose that can carry magnetic fields a long distance. The strength of a magnetic field drops off quickly, which is why fridge magnets don't fly across the kitchen. Now, Carles Navau of the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain and colleagues have sent a field 4 centimetres.

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