The US Department of Justice is offering a $1 million grant to study the impact advanced technologies such as mobile communications, sensor networks and Web-based applications have had on the law enforcement community and crime.
NASA said today it had launched what it called its first multi-player online game to test players' knowledge of all manner of space-related activities.
The power required to increase computing performance, especially in embedded or sensor systems has become a serious constraint and is restricting the potential of future systems.
The impact of social media such as Twitter, Facebook and Google+ and others on federal juries is a concern that judges are frequently taking steps to curb.According to a study 94% of the 508 federal judges who responded said they have specifically barred jurors from any case-connected use of social media. ...
Seems not a week goes by without s big solar flare erupts sending the Earth a massive shot of solar wind, radiation and electromagnetic pulses capable of damaging satellites, GPS and electronics - but this week the blast is large - the largest since 1995, NASA said.
The 2012 Olympic games in London are going to need a massive spectrum outlay - some 20,000 separate wireless frequency assignments which is more than double the number usually assigned in a year - to handle the expected communications requirements.More news: Kodak: A look at the icons of an icon
The often complex, interconnected electronics systems now proliferating across most cars and truck will require the US government that watches over auto safety -- the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) -- to revamp the way it handles and researches problems.
The US Department of Justice today said it charged seven people and two corporations with running what it called an international organized criminal enterprise allegedly responsible for massive worldwide online piracy of numerous types of copyrighted works.The DoJ stated that through the company known...
While high-levels of solar activity is not good news for satellites, GPS and electronics they can have one benefit: such massive solar bursts can decrease the amounts of dangerous orbital debris.
Perhaps it was the concern that the nearly 14 ton Russian Mars probe would land smack-dab on the White House or maybe they just came to their senses, the US State Department today said it would indeed work with the European Union and other countries to develop a formal space code of conduct.
Developers at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency want to build information technology security that goes beyond simply recognizing complex passwords but rather gets in your head to confirm your identity before you get access or continue to have access to important information.
A study out today says our Milky Way galaxy holds at least 100 billion planets -- a minimum of one planet for every star on average. This finding means that there could be a minimum of 1,500 planets within 50 light-years of Earth.
NASA has plugged in an alternative rock station to its iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Android app.NASA said its Third Rock Radio - America's Space Station, is a collaboration with RFC Media and is operated at no cost to the government through a Space Act Agreement, the agency said.More on space:...
The X Prize Foundation is out to dramatically change the medical industry by offering a $10 million prize for the company that can build a mobile platform that can accurately diagnoses 15 diseases from 30 consumers in three days.
Hard to imagine but it has been 58 years since IBM and Georgetown University teamed up to run what they said was at the time the first English-to-Russian language computer translation program.Perhaps even more interesting is that the individual phrases they that were plugged into punch cards and run...
NASA today said all systems were go for the Jan. 11 firing of its Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft's thrusters - a move that will more precisely set the ship's trajectory toward the Red Planet.
NASA's long-running Mars rover Opportunity is getting ready for the harsh Martian winter, but this year for the first time in its nearly eight-year history needs a sunnier location to continue its work.
The government is trying once again to whip the key players behind the country's electrical grid into a security force that can defend against mounting cyber threats.
Insidious unknown planets lurking behind the sun ready to slam into Earth, supernova set to engulf the planet and giant, unseen asteroids screaming toward our globe are all theories espoused across the Internet as to how we will meet our demise in 2012.
Scientists at DARPA say there are some 1,300 satellites worth over $300B sitting out in Earth's geostationary orbit (GEO) that could be retrofitted or harvested for new communications roles.And it is now looking for a way to do just that herculean task.
