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U.S. Launches Advanced Spy Satellite
A new spy satellite was launched January 18th at 9:47PM EST from Cape Canaveral Air Force Space in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The new National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) payload on the Delta 4-Heavy is a 5-to-6 ton eavesdropping spacecraft with a high tech deployable antenna as wide as 350 feet will greatly enhance the capability for the U.S. to listen in on communications from hostile regions such as Iran and Iraq. The U.S. government hopes that the new satellite will provide them greater intel on Al Qaeda operations in Iran and Afghanistan.
Engineering algae to make fuel instead of sugar
PhysOrg.com: In pursuing cleaner energy there is such a thing as being too green. Unicellular microalgae, for instance, can be considered too green. In a paper in a special energy issue of Optics Express, the Optical Society's (OSA) open-access journal, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley describe a method for using microalgae for making biofuel. The researchers explain a way to genetically modify the tiny organisms, so as to minimize the number of chlorophyll molecules needed to harvest light without compromising the photosynthesis process in the cells. With this modification, instead of making more sugar molecules, the microalgae could be producing hydrogen or hydrocarbons.
Loopt goes live on Android phones | The Social - CNET News
After launching an iPhone app this summer, the Android move was a natural next step for the location-based networking tool. Read this blog post by Caroline McCarthy on The Social.
Okay iPhone users - time to get your Quake on
Now this would be the killer reason to get an iPhone. Nothing like a little blood, guts and gore on your morning commute to work. According to touchArcade mobile developer ZodTTD is announcing that his free iPhone port of id's classic Quake FPS game will be i...
Change Expands Eligibility for Intelligence Hires - washingtonpost.com
Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell has taken steps to make it easier for U.S. intelligence agencies to recruit first-generation Americans with foreign relatives.
Intel unveils new cooling tech for ultrathin laptops | Business Tech - CNET News
Keeping the outside of notebooks cool has been a challenge. Chipmaker's new technology will be licensed to customers so they can make 'thinner and thinner laptops.' Read this blog post by Brooke Crothers on Business Tech.
NASA's Next Moon Mission Begins Thermal Vacuum Test
PhysOrg.com: (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has begun environmental testing in a thermal vacuum that simulates the harsh rigors of space.
Single-pixel camera has multiple futures: Terahertz version adds new potential to unique invention
PhysOrg.com: A terahertz version of the single-pixel camera developed by Rice University researchers could lead to breakthrough technologies in security, telecom, signal processing and medicine.
Facebook's Morin calls on developers to Connect | The Social - CNET News
At the Future of Web Apps conference in London, Facebook's platform manager encourages developers in the audience to sign onto a new data-portability project. Read this blog post by Caroline McCarthy on The Social.
CIO - Cambridge lab sets quantum key world record
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Six computers face interrogation to answer question of whether machines can think
Einstein fridge design can help global cooling |
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The Observer
Scientists relaunch a 1930 invention that uses no electricity and would reduce greenhouse gases
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