Avatar Posted by restaurantlancpa 5740 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Social | Tags: Long-range undersea robot does research
Tethys floats at the surface in Monterey Bay. (Credit: Todd Walsh/MBARI) A new breed of undersea robot promises to give oceanographers a deeper un... read more »
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Avatar Posted by separrattist 5522 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Social | Tags: Report: Phones really could cause planes crash
Have you ever forgotten to turn your cell phone off during a flight Did you survive The question might seem slightly churlish, but the airline indu... read more »
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Avatar Posted by peopleuyfs 5634 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Social | Tags: Japan eyes sending humanoid robot orbit
Will Japan's astro-droid look cute like Actroid (Credit: Tim Hornyak/CNET) NASA's tough-looking Robonaut 2 ... read more »
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Avatar Posted by winpnozi6sm 5611 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Social | Tags: Japanese quake curse of super moon
There are those who believe that a full moon puts them in a strange mood and even causes them to behave in a peculiar manner. Some, though, want to c... read more »
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Avatar Posted by zimansuf2 5733 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Social | Tags: High-speed rail funding sparks debate
High-speed railroads currently under construction in the U.S., as well as corridors under development, and proposed lines under study from the cu... read more »
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Avatar Posted by Cheery 5739 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Social | Tags: An end bad cranky drivers?
Ford Motor&39's Active Park Assist determines angles, then at driver&39's prompt steers a car into its space while driver controls the gas pedal, b... read more »
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Avatar Posted by Harveymayngeary 5557 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Social | Tags: Motion-capture research: Men a nose women
I don't know about you, but I'm rather partial to a nice smell. Somehow, some people just offer a better odor than others, and one reacts to them mor... read more »
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Avatar Posted by megapanita 5626 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Social | Tags: Will flexible Rolltop laptop ever become reali
Looks like a thermos, but it&39's a laptop in disguise. (Credit: myRolltop) Back in 2009, more than a few people drooled over a concept video fr... read more »
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Avatar Posted by gop5yeq 5573 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Social | Tags: NASA ponies $270 million commercial spaceflight
Commercial spacecraft will replace NASA&39's shuttle program. (Credit: NASA) Two companies tied to prominent technology entrepreneurs are among th... read more »
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Avatar Posted by richarrrrc 5560 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Social | Tags: Remora ROV fishes Air France box
The Remora 6000 being launched in Cyprus. (Credit: Phoenix International ) An American-built remotely operated vehicle (ROV) has finally retriev... read more »
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Avatar Posted by limmarwinon 5545 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Social | Tags: McDonalds hires 7 000 touch-screen cashiers
McDonald&39's shows off a touch-screen kiosk installed in France in 2009. (Credit: McDonald&39's Europe) "Welcome to McDonald's. My name is HAL 90... read more »
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Avatar Posted by bigescau 5732 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Social | Tags: Amazon Kiva robots via Zappos Diapers buys
Even those of us who cover e-commerce often overlook the reality of connecting the "e" part of the equation to the real world. Webvan and Kozmo.co... read more »
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Avatar Posted by Sharmeen 5732 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Social | Tags: Paper plane launched space
We tend to think of paper planes as small things, thrown in class in order to get 7-year-olds through the crushing boredom of, say, arithmetic. But ... read more »
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Avatar Posted by inhandsome 5613 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Social | Tags: Global Hawk closer aunomous aerial refueling
The Proteus approaches the Global Hawk in a flight test on January 21. (Credit: NASA Dryden Flight Research Center) The phrase "fill 'er up" is be... read more »
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Avatar Posted by Sarah01 5746 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Social | Tags: Discovery crew flies Florida prep launch
The six-member, all-veteran crew of the shuttle Discovery flew to Florida today to await their blastoff Monday on a space station resupply mission th... read more »
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Avatar Posted by riarasnuristo 5570 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Social | Tags: LHCs record intensity speeds Higgs
LHS experiments are assembled underground. Here, a silicon tracking detector--a cousin to an ordinary digital camera sensor--is inserted into one o... read more »
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Avatar Posted by BannyWiliamila 5624 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Social | Tags: Canadas ex-defense minister: U.S. knows aliens
Somehow, freaky sci-fi movies don't seem to be favored by Oscar voters. However, I think I may have found some subject matter that Peter Guber, the ... read more »
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Avatar Posted by topnews1553 5606 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Social | Tags: Space laser proposed zap space junk
Orbital Debris-Debris Collision Avoidance (Credit: Arxiv.org) What to do with all the space junk now in orbit around Earth Each year, that questio... read more »
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Avatar Posted by newsJur4ik 5641 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Social | Tags: Micron reveal tech increases chip speed 20-fold
Micron Technology tomorrow is set to disclose a hybrid memory technology that it claims will boost performance 20-fold over the memory chips used in ... read more »
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Avatar Posted by chdresource 5710 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Social | Tags: FDA approves 60-second HIV test
Canadian firm BioLytical received FDA approval this week for the sale of its Insti HIV Rapid Antibody Test in the United States. The test, which, at... read more »
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