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Future of U.S. manned spaceflight looks bleak

When Atlantis takes off from Kennedy Space Center, it will be the last time NASA launches astronauts aboard a government-built spacecraft for perhaps the rest of this decade.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 10, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 24

A second day of technical troubles at Facebook

Some Facebook users were temporarily shut out of the social networking service on Thursday as the website was beset by technical troubles for the second day in a row.

Technology / Internet

created Sep 23, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Bad weather delays NASA new rocket test flight

(AP) -- NASA tried for hours Tuesday to launch its newest rocket for a shakedown flight, but clouds and high wind kept it stuck on the pad.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1




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Facebook ads less than lucrative for many businesses

As the public joined the frenzy around Facebook Inc.'s Wall Street debut, well-connected institutional investors were hearing a more sobering message: The social network's main business, advertising, was sputtering.

Technology / Business

created May 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Morgan Stanley may refund some Facebook investors

(AP) -- Morgan Stanley, the lead investment bank in Facebook's troubled initial public offering, will compensate retail investors who overpaid when they bought Facebook's stock in Friday's IPO, according to a source familiar ...

Technology / Business

created May 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Bird vocalization research could improve poultry production, lower costs

Chickens can’t speak, but they can definitely make themselves heard. Most people who have visited a poultry farm will recall chicken vocalization – the technical term for clucking and squawking – ...

Biology / Other

created May 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Robots in the classroom

Tore Fløan smiles at me: “In the past we competed with European organizations, but now we have the Chinese breathing down our necks,” he says.

Electronics / Robotics

created Apr 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study: Including ads in mobile apps poses privacy, security risks

Researchers from North Carolina State University have found that including ads in mobile applications (apps) poses privacy and security risks. In a recent study of 100,000 apps in the official Google Play market, researchers ...

Technology / Software

created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Delicate rescue saves stranded $1.7B US satellite

Air Force ground controllers delicately rescued a $1.7 billion military communications satellite last year that had been stranded in the wrong orbit and at risk of blowing up - all possibly because a piece ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 17, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 8

Finding solutions to Achilles' heel of renewable energy: intermittency

(PhysOrg.com) -- William F. Pickard introduces the February 2012 special issue of the Proceedings of the IEEE by quoting the Bible: “The wind bloweth where it listeth.” That, in  so many words, ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 121 | with audio podcast

Lab makes digital design more PC

Anyone who uses a computer knows it can be the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of technology. Log on one day and you’ve got the helpful information resource. Power it up the next and you meet the bully who broadcasts ...

Technology / Other

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Dutch team has solution for troubled ITER nuclear fusion reactor

(PhysOrg.com) -- The superconducting cables designed for the ITER fusion reactor (cost: 16 billion euros = $21.2 billion) are unable to withstand the planned forty to sixty thousand charge cycles. Barring a solution, the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 4

Google's 4Q disappoints as advertising prices sink (Update)

What was supposed to be a celebration of the most prosperous quarter in Google's 13-year history instead turned into a major letdown.

Technology / Business

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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