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Cloud Computing Breakthroughs
Many in the IT industry are using a wait and see approach to cloud computing. Well, the time is now. Read this white paper to get to the bottom of this breakthrough innovation in IT.
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Falling Debris: Tech devices that crashed to Earth
Amid the pending crash of the Nasa climate satellite from Earth's orbit, ZDNet takes a look at other gadgets, products and services that crashed and burned.
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Odyssey Orbiter nears Martian longevity record (photos)
Since entering Mars' orbit on October 24, 2001, NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter has made countless contributions to understanding the red planet.
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Twitpics from Space (photos)
Japanese Astronaut Souichi Noguchi, in orbit on board the International Space Station, tweets images back to Earth.
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Altec Lansing debuts USB-powered Orbit speakers for laptops
Altec Lansing on Tuesday introduced their USB-powered ulraportable Orbit speaker, perfect for augmenting your notebook's tinny speakers with something more powerful.
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UK plans lunar phone network
The UK is planning mission to put a satellite in orbit around the Moon which could one day enable lunar colonists to use mobile phones to communicate with each other
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The invisible frontier of our solar system
On October 19, NASA will launch a new spacecraft named IBEX, short for 'Interstellar Boundary Explorer.' Its mission, which will last about two years, is to refine what the Voyager spacecraft...
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Students to design, create and launch satellite
Students at the University of Leicester have started a project working towards launching their very own satellite into Earth's orbit. Over twenty undergraduates from their Physics and Astronomy...
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First reflected light from an exoplanet
European astronomers have for the first time ever been able to detect and monitor the visible light that is scattered in the atmosphere of an exoplanet, HD 189733b, which is also known as a 'hot...
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Photos: Twinkle, twinkle little satellite
Small enough to hold in one hand, CubeSats prove you don't have to be big to get a steady gig in orbit.
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Photos: Twinkle, twinkle little satellite
Small enough to hold in one hand, CubeSats prove you don't have to be big to get a steady gig in orbit.
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50 years ago, second U.S. manned orbital flight (photos)
On May 24, 1962, Scott Carpenter flew the second American manned orbital flight when he piloted the Aurora 7 through three orbits of the Earth on a mission which lasted less than 5 hours.
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SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launches Dragon to orbit (photos)
The first commercial flight bound for the International Space Station marks a new era of space exploration.
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Ride to orbit aboard SpaceX's Dragon capsule (photos)
Testing the Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) Dragon capsule, a spacecraft intended to carry astronauts to the International Space Station or other low Earth orbit destinations.
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Starship Enterprise coffee table puts your feet in orbit (photos)
Three grand on Etsy buys some grandiose geek cred. Take a closer look at a piece of furniture you'll never see at Ikea.
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Falling Debris: Tech devices that crashed to Earth
Amid the pending crash of the Nasa climate satellite from Earth's orbit, ZDNet takes a look at other gadgets, products and services that crashed and burned.
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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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Messenger from Earth reaches Mercury orbit (photos)
The spacecraft Messenger is on a mission to get close and stay close to the innermost planet in the solar system to help NASA learn more about rocky planets--including our own.
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NASA's LOLA maps the moon (photos)
The Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter is helping to create the most precise and complete map to date of the moon's complex, heavily cratered landscape.
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Odyssey Orbiter nears Martian longevity record (photos)
Since entering Mars' orbit on October 24, 2001, NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter has made countless contributions to understanding the red planet.
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DDoS: How to take down WikiLeaks, MasterCard or any other Web site
DDoS attacks can take any site down these days, not just WikiLeaks or MasterCard, just ask Google. Here's how these assaults do their damage.
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