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<title><![CDATA[NASA working on waking Mars Spirit rover]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Can Spirit be revived(Credit:NASA)The Spirit rover, currently out of commission on the surface of Mars, could be awakened in the coming weeks.Speaking to Space.com, John Callas, NASA's head of the Mars rover program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said that the &quot;increasing&quot; sunlight on the Mars surface is giving him and his team some hope that it can put the solar-powered Spirit rover back on the job.&quot;As long as [sunlight is increasing], we will do all we can to increase the chances of hearing from the rover again,&quot; Callas told the publication.However, Callas acknowledged that his team is losing some hope with each passing day. He said the fact that it is now spring on Mars and the team hasn't heard anything back from Spirit is &quot;concerning.&quot; He told Space.com that &quot;each day that goes by, it's one more tick downward in our optimism for the rover.&quot;That's certainly sobering news for those that have been following Spirit all these years.The rover first landed on Mars in 2004, and was expected to search for evidence of water for a period of three months. Still going strong after three months, NASA continued operating Spirit for about six years until communication was lost last March. Since then, NASA has been trying to revive the rover, which became immobile last January due to damage to two of its wheels.But even if Spirit doesn't come back, its legacy is impressive. As Callas pointed out to Space.com, Spirit found &quot;physical conditions on Mars&quot; that were similar to &quot;geysers in Yellowstone, or deep ocean vents, which are thriving systems here on Earth.&quot; It found that there was &quot;liquid water on Mars, but there were [also] energy sources coincident with that liquid water.&quot;Callas' talk on Spirit comes just a couple days after NASA announced that another rover, Opportunity, will be spending the next two months exploring the Santa Maria crater on the Martian landscape. Opportunity landed on Mars on January 25, 2004.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Former Facebook exec backs BlipSnips social video service]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Despite the hoopla about how everything on the Web is becoming increasingly social, BlipSnips chief executive John Bliss said that online video remains a remarkably un-social experience &amp;8212' and that&amp;'s a problem BlipSnips is trying to solve.This will probably resonate if youa4a4ve ever been sent a link to a video that you or a friend appears in, or if youa4a4ve been tagged in a video on Facebook. In fact, Bliss said the idea for the company came from his own experience of being sent a video of a bike race. He shows up briefly in the video, but he said it was a4Avery frustratinga4 that had to watch minutes of semi-related video to find the relevant portion, since there was no easy way for him to figure out where he actually appeared. (At best, you can include awkward comments when you send a video, like, &amp;''Skip to 1:30&amp;8243'.)The BlipSnips solution: You can tag people, or anything else, at any point in the footage. If your friend appears three minutes into a video, you can tag the spot where they actually show up. Or if the real highlight of the video begins 30 seconds in, you can add a tag to communicate that. The tags also create searchable data, so you can look for all the videos featuring a certain person or location.The Boulder, Colo. startupa4a4s tagging tools were already available on its website, but today ita4a4s launching an iPhone application (so you can film and tag videos from your phone) and a Facebook app as well (so that you can tag and share videos on the social networking site).Apparently, Bliss wasna4a4t the only one who felt there was a need here. Chris Kelly, Facebooka4a4s former chief privacy officer (who launched an unsuccessful bid to win the Democratic Partya4a4s nomination for California Attorney General last year), was the lead investor in BlipSnipsa4a4 angel funding, and hea4a4s also an advisor to the companya4a4s board of directors.a4AThe idea of social photography has existed for many years, but as video grows into such a dominant medium on the web, BlipSnips has brought much of that same social functionality to video for the first time,a4 Kelly said in a press release.Bliss said he plans to keep BlipSnips free for consumers and to explore other revenue options like advertising and selling a customized service to businesses. BlipSnips was incubated by TechStars.Previous Story: Eric Schmidt doesn&amp;'t want to be a YouTube starPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: social video, video taggingCompanies: BlipSnips, John BlissPeople: Chris Kelly          Tags: social video, video taggingCompanies: BlipSnips, John BlissPeople: Chris KellyAnthony is a senior editor at VentureBeat, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining the site in 2008, Anthony worked at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing. He attended Stanford University and now lives in San Francisco. Reach him at anthony@venturebeat.com. (All story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com) You can also follow Anthony on Twitter. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama urges 80 percent clean energy by 2035, gives electric cars a shoutout]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In his state of the union address last night, President Obama called for an end to oil subsidies and set a national goal of reaching 80 percent clean energy by 2035.&amp;''I don&amp;'t know if you&amp;'ve noticed, but they&amp;'re doing just fine on their own,&amp;'' Obama said. &amp;''So instead of subsidizing yesterday&amp;'s energy, let&amp;'s invest in tomorrow&amp;'s.&amp;''While Obama urged Congress to back legislation that would support such a lofty goal, the energy legislation has proven difficult to pass in the past. The president couched his plan in the terms of supporting American innovation and the need to compete and win globally &amp;8212' singling out the goal of the U.S. being the first country to get one million electric vehicles on the roads in the U.S. by 2015. (Secretary of Energy Steven Chu made a similar appeal last year, saying the clean energy revolution is the country&amp;'s &amp;''Sputnik moment.&amp;'')The administration was unable to pass both a major energy bill last year and a proposal to eliminate $40 billion in yearly oil company subsidies, according to Reuters. Wind and solar industry associations mounted a frantic end-of-year struggle in December to renew an investment tax credit that was eventually extended for one year.Obama will emphasize his point by touringtwo Wisconsin cleantech companies today, one that develops energy-saving solutions for clients, and the other a wind tower manufacturer.Governments around the world have stimulated investment in clean energy. China, for example, has pledged billions to the smart grid and pledged to get five million electric vehicles on the roads by 2020. California has decreed that 33 percent of power purchased by utilities must be from clean sources by 2030' Hawaii set a goal of 70 percent clean energy by 2030.The idea behind those mandates was summed up by the president last night:&amp;''Clean energy breakthroughs will only translate into clean energy jobs if businesses know there will be a market for what they&amp;'re selling,&amp;'' Obama said.Industry watchers have remained largely bearish on the likelihood of significant national clean energy policy, which would stimulate investment and expansion within the country&amp;'s cleantech industry. However, the Department of Energy has a large loan guarantee program, which has supported wind and solar investments, and recently awarded $405 million to three companies building biofuels refineries.In his speech, the president included energy sources like nuclear, natural gas and clean coal technologies. Natural gas in particular has surged of late, with oil companies making acquisitions and starting projects in the area. In a report last year, consulting and engineering firm Black &amp;amp' Veatch forecast natural gas would power 40 percent of the nation by 2035, while coal will fade from dominance. Natural gas is a fossil fuel that emitsfewer emissions than coal when burned and is considered promising because the infrastructure already exists it.[Image via Wikipedia Commons]Next Story: Amazon launches Kindle Singles: For when a full ebook is just too much Previous Story: The road to green is paved with dataPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: cleantech, coal, electric cars, electric vehicles, natural gas, renewable portfolio standardsCompanies: DOEPeople: Barack Obama, Steven Chu          Tags: cleantech, coal, electric cars, electric vehicles, natural gas, renewable portfolio standardsCompanies: DOEPeople: Barack Obama, Steven ChuIris Kuo is the VentureBeat's lead GreenBeat writer. She has reported for The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, Houston Chronicle, the McClatchy Washington Bureau and Dallas public radio. Iris attended the University of Texas at Dallas and lives in Houston. Follow Iris on Twitter @thestatuskuo (and yes, that's how you  pronounce her last name). Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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