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Planetary Resources to Begin Mining Asteroids
May 7, 2012
Apollo 11 landed on the moon after a multi-stage Saturn V rocket funded by the U.S. government was developed in the midst of a massive, Cold War-era program to achieve the goal. But in 1950, science fiction writer Robert Heinlein envisioned a different kind of ... Read more »
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Shifted Reality, Shifting Messages
April 16, 2012
Time was when we touched life. We hunted and gathered our food, we sat together around the fire, we talked. Some say that was when we became "human," sharing stories with friends and family in the fire's glow. There were some obvious problems with life ... Read more »
Magnifying Minutiae
April 5, 2012
With an impending Initial Public Offering (IPO), we are once again knee-deep in all things Facebook. Part of that frenzy is an interesting article in PC World about how to block Facebook’s new Timeline feature. That feature, on the off chance you have managed to ... Read more »
Being Evil: It's Complicated
March 29, 2012
Harry Potter’s parents were killed because their personal data — data that they thought was secure and would not be used without their consent — was compromised by Peter Pettigrew, the very person to whom they had entrusted the data. Pettigrew leaked the data to ... Read more »
There's an App for That
March 28, 2012
When Vint Cerf speaks, I listen. The man who came up with TCP/IP, the basic set of protocols that made the Internet possible, now works as one of Google’s vice presidents, but his view of tomorrow’s Internet is as clear as it ever was. Cerf ... Read more »
An Augmented Reality
March 12, 2012
Smartphones are now everywhere, but the fast-paced changes in how we use computers will continue to produce new and better devices. Ahead is the era of ‘augmented reality,’ in which we find ways to meld our digital data with the real world around us. While ... Read more »
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