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Curtain falling on 'Digital Decade'Washington (AFP) Dec 27, 2009 While it got off to a rocky start with the overhyped Y2K bug and dotcom bubble, the era dubbed the "Digital Decade" by Microsoft's Bill Gates has turned out to be a dizzying period of innovation. "It's been an amazingly vibrant decade for the Internet and for digital things in general," said John Abell, New York bureau chief of Wired magazine, which has chronicled the technological leaps and bounds of the past 10 years. "People simply don't exist in a non-digital world at all," Abell told AFP. "Even grandmothers and Luddites all have tools and devices - even if they don't realize they're using them - which connect them to a digital world." ... read more |
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Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Dec 21, 2009The most detailed seismic images yet published of the plumbing that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano shows a plume of hot and molten rock rising at an angle from the northwest at a depth of at least 410 miles, contradicting claims that there is no deep plume, only shallow hot rock moving like slowly boiling soup. A related University of Utah study used gravity measurements to indicate ... more  
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Dec 18, 2009The operator of the Glonass satellite navigation project has taken control of three newly orbited satellites, Russia's leading satellite manufacturer said on Tuesday. The satellites are being operated from the Glonass mission control in the town of Krasnoznamensk, near Moscow. "The first communication sessions have been carried out with all satellites. All systems of the spacecrafts ... more  
Paris, France (ESA) Dec 16, 2009The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. At first glance, this may not appear to be connected to space technology, but large development projects and the state of Earth's environment are intrinsically linked. Global climate change is also an increasingly important challenge in overcoming poverty and advancing ... more |
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College Park MD (SPX) Dec 15, 2009University of Maryland researchers have developed and successfully tested new computer software and computational techniques to analyze patterns of improvised explosive device (IED) attacks in Iraq, Afghanistan or other locations and predict the locations of weapons caches that are used by insurgents to support those attacks. University of Maryland computer science Ph.D. student Paulo ... more  
Washington (AFP) Dec 9, 2009The US military is taking a serious look at resupplying combat troops in Afghanistan using unmanned aircraft, an Air Force general said Wednesday. Faced with the task of delivering vast amounts of supplies by land and by air to troops in the mountainous, land-locked country, senior officers were considering using pilotless aircraft to help with the job, said US Transportation Command chief G ... more 
Erlangen, Germany (UPI) Dec 8, 2009 German researchers say they've developed intelligent radio nodes that can perform many tasks that radio frequency identification systems cannot. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, the Fraunhofer Working Group and colleagues at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and other facilities developed the radio nodes mainly for hospital uses. For example ... more |
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