You may or may not be old enough to remember the TV commercial for margarine that had the tag line was "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature." But that commercial came to mind as I was reading a report out recently that looked at the viability of large climate engineering projects that would basically...
On paper anyway the 100 Year Starship - now with its own acronym, 100YSS -- project could be one of the most ambitious space developments ever attempted.
There has been a bit of a dust-up in the space information world this week as a number of press outlets seized on what at first blush was reported to be NASA study saying alien armies might destroy Earth because of our greenhouse gas issues.Thing is the report is real and interesting mind you but it...
Hewlett-Packard could be close to spinning off its PC unit and spending $10 billion to buy software-maker Autonomy, according to a Bloomberg News report today.
The Department of Justice today said Donald Cone of Frederick, Md., was sentenced to 30 months in prison for his role in a sophisticated conspiracy to import and sell counterfeit Cisco network equipment.A federal jury convicted Cone -- who was also ordered to pay $143,300 in restitution -- and a co-conspirator,...
The comet Elenin which will pass by Earth October 16 has generated such an inordinate amount of doomsday reports from a number of different sources that
The stress created by rude co-workers can be so intense that, at the end of the day, it is taken home by the worker and can damage the well-being of the worker's family.That was the main conclusion of a Baylor University study of 190 workers and their partners that looked at how a co-worker's rudeness...
The US Department of Justice this week said a woman was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay $441,035 in restitution for selling more than $400,000 worth of counterfeit software.
This guy is the poster boy for why cell phone usage in cars should be banned in more places.According to press out of the United Kingdom, a man who was driving at 70MPH while texting on one phone and talking on the other has been banned from driving for a year.Initial reports said that the driver, David...
In the wake of new fuel efficiency standards, the Energy Department this week spotted 40 new research projects $175 million to develop everything from light-weight building materials to electronics and advanced fuel.
Researchers are touting a wireless skin-thin, microelectronic tattoo as an alternative to hard-wired electrodes for healthcare tests or monitoring and ultimately new applications such as electronic bandages.
The second test of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2) ended in the same fashion it predecessor did, crashing into the Pacific Ocean nine minutes into its flight.
The US Department of Justice said a man who rang up 4,400 fraudulent charges totaling $770,674 from 2,341 stolen credit pleaded guilty today in the District Court in Alexandria, Va.
The Sun has been busy this week sending a number of strong geomagnetic pulses towards Earth and it continued today by emitting a flare strong enough to warrant NASA issue details about it.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is taking to the sky again, this time to run what it say will be the second and final test of its hypersonic Falcon aircraft which is capable if hitting speeds up to Mach 20 or about 13,0
The ability to detect insider threats and behaviors from a plethora of live data is the goal of an ambitious research program being undertaken by the military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).Last week DARPA took a big step toward realizing the potential of the program it calls Anomaly...
NASA's Mars rover Opportunity will likely peer over the rim of its ultimate destination this week, the huge Endeavour crater.According to a NASA post late last week, Opportunity was only about 120 meters (394 feet) from "Spirit Point," the first landfall on the rim of Endeavour crater.
The FBI said today it had arrested three mall cell phone kiosk workers for buying stolen iPhones and other Apple products and selling them for profit.The FBI said the arrests were based on an investigation of a large number of mobile devices stolen from riders of the region's mass transportation system,...
NASA shot its 4-ton Juno spacecraft into the cosmos today with the ultimate goal of exploring everything it can about the largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter.
Could some sort of briny water be flowing on Mars during its warm season? Seems that may be the case as NASA today said its red planet-orbiting satellite spotted possible flowing water, furthering the idea that Mars has or still does harbor life.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center today issued a geomagnetic storm bulletin for the next 12 hours. Such storms can cause problems with Global Positioning Systems and power grids.
A strip club owner who thought he'd use some fancy software to outwit the Internal Revenue Service was this week sentenced to a year in prison for the scam.Nicholas Faranso of Farmington Hills, Mich., was sentenced for conspiring to defraud the United States, the Department of Justice and IRS said....
As cars and other forms of transportation increasingly rely on online systems for everything from safety to onboard entertainment, the cybersecurity threat from those who would exploit such electronic control packages has also
If a picture is worth a thousand words, the scientists at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) would like to make that about a billion with a new software intelligent program.
The company behind Seattle's iconic Space Needle wants to send you into space. The company, Space Needle LLC has teamed with space tourist company Space Adventures to blast someone into suborbital space to celebrate the Seattle structure's 50th anniversary.
