Archive for April, 2008

The U.S. Department of Defense wants to know if chip makers are building remotely accessible kill switches into high-end microprocessors. These days, the U.S. military consumes only about 1 percent of the world's integrated circuits, and offshoring has begun to raise some alarms about the safety of the chips in the military's most mission-critical electronics.

A new life-detecting instrument is preparing for a mission to the Red Planet. The Urey: Mars Organic and Oxidant Detector instrument, developed by a scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, received approximately $2 million in NASA funding to further refine the design and technology for the European Space Agency's (ESA) 2013 ...

One of the first large-scale analyses of how people share knowledge on Yahoo Answers has found that participants use the site to exchange advice and opinions, in addition to technical expertise. "There are gobs and gobs of useful information on the web," said Lada Adamic, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Information ...

The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today delivered a detailed, 7,000-page proposal offering its advanced F/A-18E/F Super Hornet to the Indian Air Force as part of India's Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) competition.

"Our proposal team worked diligently to fully understand and meet ...

In its 18 years of viewing the heavens, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made more than 840,000 observations and snapped more than 540,000 images of 27,000 celestial objects. Hubble does not travel to stars, planets, and galaxies. It takes pictures of them as it whirls around Earth at 17,500 miles an hour.