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Business Execution: Executive Buyer's Guide
There's a big difference between strategy and execution. Take a look at this white paper to learn how you can take your business strategies into the real world with the help of assets you already...
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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.
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Volocopter: Sixteen propellers and one seat belt (photos)
Winner of the AERO 2012 Lindbergh Prize for Innovation, E-volo is trying to change personal transportation with its multi-propeller aircraft designs.
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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.
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Swarms of robots to mine space (photos)
Planetary Resources plans to harvest water and other valuable natural resources from near-by asteroids.
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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?
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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.
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Rage (photos)
Rage tells to the story of a scorched Earth, years after an asteroid has hit the planet.
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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.
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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.
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VC: How the 'hypernet' is changing the Internet
At the Always On Silicon Valley Innovation Summit, Elevation Partners' Roger McNamee argues that the devices we attach to our belts are changing the fundamental architecture of the Internet.
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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.
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Forbidden fruit: Is the Bible Belt unfriendly to Apple?
As one might expect, a recent report on Apple's U.S. market penetration shows its top 10 markets in Apple's home town, in major metro areas and surprisingly in Las Vegas. However, a look at the...
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Lullabelly brings the sound of music to the womb
There have been studies about getting infants and toddlers to listen to Mozart, Beethoven and the works of other classical geniuses in order to make these kids way smarter than their...
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Chemistry of the Corn Belt is changing
Some pesticides less concentrated in Corn Belt rivers.
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Iomega eGo BlackBelt portable hard drive: 500GB that can survive 7 ft. drops
Storage manufacturer Iomega today announced the worldwide availability of the next generation of its eGo portable external hard drives featuring a new rugged look, USB 2.0, and a suite of...
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Microsoft tightens its belt, but still no layoffs announced
Microsoft is not renewing leases on a number of its Seattle area properties and is postponing construction on several planned buildings to help trim costs, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is reporting.
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The mystery of the Southern stroke belt is solved
If your weight at birth was under a few pounds (six and a half is normal) you are at significant risk of hypertension, stroke, and kidney failure in later life.
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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...
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Can light drive a motor?
According to a research team led by professor Tomiki Ikeda at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, the answer is yes. But this kind of motor is far too small to power your car -- at least today. In...
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Tech spending (naturally) taking a dip in 2008
The New York Times reports on IDC's outlook for tech spending growth, which may fall from 7 percent in 2007 to 4 percent or less this year. The drop is not as precipitous as in 2001 when tech...
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