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News Having invested more in the toolkit than Nasa invested putting a man on the moon, Microsoft hopes VisualStudio .Net will finally make the Microsoft web services vision a reality. Microsoft has officially launched its new... [13 Feb 2002]
NASA mini-bots march on Mars
News NASA's boffins have unleashed an army of miniature robots whose mission will be to collect data on Mars. The project involves insect-sized flying robots, called micro air vehicles, which NASA claims are... [22 Jan 2002]
US boffins create eco-robots
News NASA scientists have also developed a robot built to aid in explorations of the earth's polar ice caps. US scientists are busy creating tiny robots to monitor pollution levels in the world's oceans. The University of... [15 Jan 2002]
Rockets of the future
News Space ships of the future will cost a fraction of current rocket designs and will take off on normal aeroplane runways, according to NASA. Scientists at NASA believe that they can claw back a 15 per cent... [21 Dec 2001]
Astronauts' suits to come with matching PC accessories
News The new technology, which is being developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for NASA, has been named WearSAT - Wearable Situation Aware Terminal. NASA hopes the new system will... [19 Dec 2001]
Wearable technology: Computing power on and in us
Comment With an eye on performing life-saving operations, NASA has developed a pill transmitter, to be used to monitor a foetus during difficult pregnancies. Microchips, both simple and complex, are already commonplace, but here... [23 Oct 2001]
Hacker puts $10m bounty on Osama Bin Laden
News Schmitz, who hacked under the pseudonym 'Kimble', spent two months in jail in 1998 after he was convicted of breaking into the websites of Citibank, Nasa and the Pentagon websites. A former hacker who made his fortune as... [17 Sep 2001]
NASA hacker jailed for cyber-crime spree
News A member of the £conflict hacking group was sentenced to four months of home confinement and ordered to pay $4,400 in compensation for hosting a hack-chatroom on a NASA computer. Raymond Torricelli from New York was... [06 Sep 2001]
IBM joins crusade to reinvent the internet
News In the US, space agency Nasa as well as the national defence and aeronautical departments already have prototype grids in operation or in development. IBM is stepping up its commitment to developing the next-generation... [02 Aug 2001]
Sorry about the bubble bursting and everything
Comment Sunday saw the first flight of a Nasa aircraft which could replace satellites for many applications, including broadband net access. One day Nasa hopes these things will be able to stay airborne for... [20 Jul 2001]
Fly me to the moon (and let us email round the stars)
Comment Nearly all of the internet protocols we're familiar with - web browsing, file transfer, remote console access - are designed to be used in a conversational, interactive way," said Scott Burleigh of the NASA Jet... [19 Jul 2001]
Broadband from a flying boomerang
News Sunday saw the first flight of a Nasa aircraft project which may eventually replace satellites for many applications, including broadband internet access. Nasa hopes that similar planes will be able to... [16 Jul 2001]
'You space cadet': NASA hacker arrested
News US police have arrested a teenager from New Mexico for allegedly hacking into NASA computers in April last year. Officials say he created false accounts and modified documents after compromising the NASA... [03 Jul 2001]
Japan has nothing to fear but Mir itself
News ParallelGraphics, the company behind the End of Mir project, claims it will use data from NASA alongside its Cortona viewer to provide real-time images as Mir meets its end. Those choosing to follow this advice will be... [16 Mar 2001]
Start-up plans to mine technological 'gold'
News HRL has been involved in the development of such technological advancements as the world's first laser, liquid crystal watches and the ion engine currently operating on NASA space probes. The company is looking to... [23 Feb 2001]
