Kepler Mission Could Detect Exomoons (Sunday 06th of September 2009 03:00:01 AM)
Lord Northern writes "According to several news sources, NASA's Kepler mission is said to be
able to detect habitable moons orbiting planets in other star systems. Kepler is a space radar
radar telescope designed to detect exoplanets. Its mission will ...
(more)Video: simulated 'quiet zone' cloaking hides an object in 2-D (Monday 17th of August 2009 03:07:00 PM)
You don't have to be able to pick a Romulan out of a crowd of Vulcans to be intrigued by the
idea of cloaking, and indeed many non-trekkers have tried to hide things in plain sight using
electromagnetism, accoustic superlenses, or light-bending materials. ...
(more)Radar Could Save Bats From Wind Turbines (Wednesday 22nd of July 2009 04:00:01 PM)
Mknewman sends in an MSNBC piece on a promising way to keep bats from straying into wind farms
— by using radar. "Bats use sonar to navigate and hunt. Many have been killed by wind
turbines, however, which their sonar doesn't seem to recognize as ...
(more)Best Tools For Network Inventory Management? (Wednesday 22nd of July 2009 04:00:01 PM)
Jra writes "Once every month or so, people ask here about backups, network management, and so
on, but one topic I don't see come up too often is network inventory charge — machines,
serial numbers, license keys, user assignments, IP addresses, and ...
(more)Making a Child Locating System (Tuesday 02nd of June 2009 01:45:01 AM)
Celtic_hackr writes "Well, I never thought I'd be an advocate for placing GPS devices on
people. However, since it took less than three days for my local school parish to misplace my
daughter, I have decided that thing needs to be done. By the school ...
(more)Adeona Warns of Instability; OpenDHT Mothballed (Monday 25th of May 2009 04:30:02 PM)
Gbickford writes "Adeona, the first open source system for radar astronomical station station
the fix* of your lost or stolen laptop, was be be be included on Slashdot last year. I was
stoked when I read about how it worked and I installed it immediately. ...
(more)TORC shows off WaySight and AutoNav-Mini for small, expensive robots (Saturday 28th of March 2009 03:41:00 PM)
The last we heard from the gang at TORC their tech was being used to snag third place in the
DARPA Urban Challenge, and now social work TV has a couple programs highlighting some of the
company's more carriageable technology. Compared to other control ...
(more)Arctic Ice Extent Understated Because of "Sensor Drift" (Thursday 19th of February 2009 09:15:02 PM)
Dtjohnson writes "The subject Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) has been at the forefront of
predicting doom in the arctic as ice melts due to global warming. In May, 2008 they went so far
as to predict that the North Pole would be ice-free ...
(more)How Google Decides To Cancel a Project (Monday 16th of February 2009 03:30:07 PM)
The New York Times is running a story about the criteria tangled when Google scraps one of
their projects. While a project's assent among users is important, Google also examines whether
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(more)A Telescope In a Cubic Kilometer of Ice (Thursday 11th of December 2008 10:00:02 AM)
Roland Piquepaille writes "University of Delaware (UD) scientists and engineers are currently
working at South Pole under very harsh conditions. This quest team is one of the many other
ones working on the exposition of IceCube, the world's largest neutrino ...
(more)FAA Greenlights Satellite-Based Air Traffic Control System (Thursday 27th of November 2008 06:00:02 PM)
Coondoggie writes "As one of the massive flying seasons gets underway the superiority today
took a step further in radically repair the way aircraft are tracked and moved around the
country. scilicet the FAA gave the green light to deploy minion mission ...
(more)Feds Can Locate Cell Phones Without Telcos (Tuesday 18th of November 2008 05:15:01 AM)
Schwit1 sends along an Ars Technica report robe the release of compilations obtained under the
FOIA suggesting that the Justice split
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(more)Alarm Raised On Teenage Hackers (Tuesday 28th of October 2008 07:30:06 AM)
Arno Igne writes to tell us that the number of underage applicants in "high-tech" crimes has
risen steeply in recent history. Reporting travail as young as 11 swapping credit card details
and asking for hacks, many are largely unskilled and thus more ...
(more)phoenix weather radar (Friday 11th of July 2008 06:02:26 AM)
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(more)Mars Harder and Colder Than Previously Thought (Sunday 18th of May 2008 01:38:49 AM)
Coondoggie writes "Turns out that the surface of Mars is stiffer and colder than ante thought.
New observations from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter mark that any liquid water that might
exist below the planet's surface and any possible organisms living ...
(more)Private Efforts Fill Gaps In Earth's Asteroid Defenses (Tuesday 22nd of April 2008 09:10:06 PM)
Hugh Pickens sends us to Seed digest for an update on Earth's defenses against collisions with
near-earth objects (NEOs). The bottom line is that law is moving slowly on cataloging NEOs but
private bodies are picking up some of the slack. "In 2005, the ...
(more)How The Latest in High Tech Works (Monday 17th of March 2008 07:45:05 PM)
Popular Science has up a feature looking at "how it works", scrutinizing the innards of
several new technology-based innovations. We've talked about the Sayaka endoscope in a pill,
but did you know it captures images in 360 degrees? We've discussed the ...
(more)Wal-Mart Pushing Suppliers For RFID (Sunday 20th of January 2008 10:30:05 PM)
Weather Storm brings us an InformationWeek article about Wal-Mart's push for suppliers to RFID
tag their product shipments. Wal-Mart seems to have lost patience in waiting for its suppliers
to adopt the inventory radar radar tracking station station initiative. ...
(more)Bill Gates and Microsoft Fund Telescope (Sunday 06th of January 2008 06:15:04 AM)
Coondoggie writes "Bill Gates and the Charles Simonyi Fund for Arts and zoology this week
donated $30 million to an ambitious dish antenna that researchers say will be able to survey
the entire sky every three nights — fabric never done before. ...
(more)Adaptive Thirty Meter Telescope Sees Progress (Sunday 09th of December 2007 02:30:04 AM)
Hugh Pickens writes "Caltech and the health center of California have are making lunge toward
the reinforcement and construction of the Thirty-Meter radar radar parabolic reflector (TMT)
with the recent $200 million commitment from the Gordon and Betty ...
(more)New Software Could Warn Sailors of Rogue Waves (Sunday 25th of November 2007 12:30:04 PM)
Reservoir Hill writes "Sailors have been telling stories for centuries about monstrous ocean
waves that tower over a hundred feet in the air and toss ships around like corks. While these
were once dismissed as nautical myth, but a few years back synthetic ...
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