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February 11, 2013
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January 24, 2013
Deep Space Industries
Deep Space Industries, a newly formed company, announced plans to launch the world’s first fleet of asteroid-hunting spacecraft to search for space rocks that can be harvested for precious metals such as platinum and other resources. The one-way prospecting trips will begin in 2015, using three laptop-size spacecraft called FireFlies, each weighing about 55 pounds, [...]
April 14, 2012
OpenStack Foundation has a new member
The open-source OpenStack cloud infrastructure stack has gained a number of additional powerful allies, as IBM and Red Hat have both agreed to support the OpenStack Foundation, according to organizers behind the soon-to-be-created body. Both companies have agreed to join the foundation as platinum members, meaning they will contribute $500,000 per year for the next [...]
April 9, 2012
IT job roles that are hardest to fill
By Justin James April 6, 2012, 11:06 AM PDT Takeaway: Some IT jobs seem to draw plenty of qualified candidates, but other jobs are nearly impossible to fill. Here are several positions that drive hiring managers crazy. The IT job market is usually a seller’s market, even in tough times like these. But some IT [...]
April 5, 2012
Now we’ve done it – We’ve created Replicators
Imagine that you have a big box of sand in which you bury a tiny model of a footstool. A few seconds later, you reach into the box and pull out a full-size footstool: The sand has assembled itself into a large-scale replica of the model. That may sound like a scene from a Harry [...]
February 24, 2012
Intel is now offering the open-source office suite LibreOffice on its application store
Intel is now offering the open-source office suite LibreOffice on its application store, Intel AppUp, for Windows users. LibreOffice, the OpenOffice fork, is a very popular open-source office suite. But, while it has great support from Linux distributors, like openSUSE and Ubuntu, LibreOffice has never had a major corporate backer on the Windows side… until [...]
February 23, 2012
Lockheed forfeits $31.5M in F-35 performance payments
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics missed 3 out of 5 performance milestones in 2010 which cost it $31.5 million of a potential $52.5 million in performance payments last year. Fort Worth-based Lockheed division that is developing the next-generation fighter could have earned $10.5 million for each of five performance goals but only completed two. This was the [...]
February 19, 2012
DARPA’s ‘Avatar project’ aims to give soldiers surrogate robots
By Sean Buckley posted Feb 19th 2012 7:03AM In a fevered mash up of blockbuster films directed by James Cameron, DARPA is looking to put soldier controlled bi-pedal robots on the battlefield. Think Terminator meets Avatar. The agency has set aside $7 million of it’s $2.8 billion 2012 budget to develop an “Avatar program” that [...]
February 17, 2012
Big claims for MySQL Cluster
Oracle has announced the general availability of MySQL Cluster 7.2 as a GPL download, and claims to have achieved a benchmark of 1 billion queries per minute and 110 million updates per minute on an eight-server cluster. Those results, based on the flexAsynch test in the DBT-2 benchmark, were attained using a new NoSQL NDB [...]