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  • Who's ready for cyberterror?

    Like a doomsday asteroid, cyberattacks threaten to disrupt critical infrastructure services, causing billions of dollars in damage and loss of life. Awareness is critical, but now it’s time to act.

    News items | July 29, 2002 12:00am PDT

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  • Updating the Parrot Asteroid's firmware (photos)

    The 1.5 firmware update to Parrot's Android-powered Asteroid receiver adds a few valuable functions to its bag of tricks. Here are step-by-step instructions for installing the new software.

  • Swarms of robots to mine space (photos)

    Planetary Resources plans to harvest water and other valuable natural resources from near-by asteroids.

  • Asteroid of doom - or maybe not

    Reports of catastophe caused by a killer asteroid in 2040. But how much of a threat really is it?

  • Gallery: Real threats from space

    The more you study solar flares and asteroids, the more you want to run for cover. A large asteroid is giving Earth, a close but comfortable encounter.

  • Rage (photos)

    Rage tells to the story of a scorched Earth, years after an asteroid has hit the planet.

  • Smart Planet videos of the week: How to protect Earth from an asteroid strike

    Former astronaut and physicist Ed Lu discusses the need to develop an early-warning and precision tracking/guidance system to prevent asteroids from hitting the planet.

    Blog posts | August 19, 2011 1:22pm PDT

  • Gallery: NASA releases first closeups of asteroid

    NASA's Dawn spacecraft is settling into orbit around the asteroid Vesta - more than 114 million miles from Earth.

  • Gallery: Dawn spacecraft orbits giant asteroid - first photo

    UPDATE - NASA released the first image of Vesta taken by the Dawn spacecraft after it entered into orbit around the planetoid which lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

  • Netbooks with Nvidia's Ion wait on Windows 7

    Nvidia's Ion platform may be off to a slow start, but that could change once Windows 7 arrives in late October. To date Ion has been used only in nettops--including two new ones from Asus and...

    Blog posts | August 21, 2009 1:31pm PDT

  • Is Adobe the next (pre-2002) Microsoft?

    From a security perspective, Adobe looks an awful lot like Microsoft did back when Windows was getting blasted by viruses and vulnerabilities and before the company beefed up its defenses.

    News items | August 6, 2009 8:05am PDT

  • A 1.4-gigapixel camera to detect asteroids

    MIT engineers have developed silicon chips that will be at the heart of a telescope installed on Haleakala mountain, Maui, Hawaii, which will begin operation next month. The system, called...

    Blog posts | November 20, 2008 9:06am PST

  • Interest in switching to broadband among Americans in 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2008

      Oct 2002 Feb 2004 Dec 2005 May 2008 Yes, interested in broadband 38% 40% 39% 36% No, not interested 57 58 60 62 % of all Americans with dial-up at home 38 30 25 10 Source: Pew...

    Blog posts | October 1, 2008 7:21am PDT

  • Late breaking news: Microsoft investigates reports of Office Word 2002 SP 3 exploited in the wild

    From Bill Sisk, security response communications manager for Microsoft: Microsoft Security Advisory (953635) Vulnerability in Microsoft Word Could Allow Remote Code Execution Published: July 8,...

    Blog posts | July 8, 2008 8:40pm PDT

  • E-book sales Q1 2002 - Q4 2007

    International Digital Publishing Forum published data on e-book sales between Q1 2002 and Q4 2007.

    Blog posts | March 24, 2008 10:17pm PDT

  • Images: NASA's Dawn takes off for asteroid belt

    The long-delayed Dawn mission to visit the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter has finally left the ground.

  • How to land a spacecraft on an asteroid

    Digital simulations show how NASA might land spacecraft, people on an asteroid, possibly paving the way for trips to deep space.Images: Vision for an asteroid mission

    News items | July 30, 2007 11:00am PDT

  • Images: A vision for an asteroid mission

    A private company in Santa Cruz, Calif., uses its 3D rendering technology to simulate a spacecraft landing on an asteroid.

  • Photos: Asteroid hunters leaving/returning to Earth

    While NASA plans to launch its Dawn probe to visit two asteroids, a Japanese spacecraft, loaded with asteroid dirt, limps toward home.

  • Is there an asteroid in your future?

    NASA's Edward Lu explains how a "gravity tractor" could save Earth from an asteroid at the AAAS annual meeting in San Francisco. Michael Kanellos of CNET News.com reports.

    Videos | February 17, 2007 12:55am PST

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