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Found: first 'skylight' on the moon - space - 22 October 2009 - New Scientist - 2 views

www.newscientist.com/...irst-skylight-on-the-moon.html

moon

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  • A deep hole on the moon that could open into a vast underground tunnel has been found for the first time. The discovery strengthens evidence for subsurface, lava-carved channels that could shield future human colonists from space radiation and other hazards.
Francesco Biscani

Asteroid blast reveals holes in Earth's defences - space - 26 October 2009 - New Scientist - 2 views

www.newscientist.com/...dn18046

asteroid

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  • On 8 October an asteroid detonated high in the atmosphere above South Sulawesi, Indonesia, releasing about as much energy as 50,000 tons of TNT, according to a NASA estimate released on Friday. That's about three times more powerful than the atomic bomb that levelled Hiroshima, making it one of the largest asteroid explosions ever observed.
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Robot Armada Might Scale New Worlds - 1 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...091027195507.htm

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  • We are departing from traditional approaches of a single robotic spacecraft with no redundancy that is Earth-commanded to one that allows for having multiple, expendable low-cost robots that can command themselves or other robots at various locations at the same time.
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iTWire - London Stock Exchange gets the facts and dumps Windows for Linux - 1 views

www.itwire.com/...1141

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shared by Francesco Biscani on 12 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Microsoft’s marketing arm excitedly churned out a case study in 2005 when the London Stock Exchange (LSE) rolled out a C# stock exchange ticker system on Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2000. Four years later the LSE has scrapped the whole system in favour of a Linux-based solution instead.
  • Francesco Biscani on 12 Oct 09
     
    Microsoft "Gets the facts".
Francesco Biscani

T-Mobile Sidekick Disaster: Danger's Servers Crashed, And They Don't Have A Backup - 0 views

www.techcrunch.com/...ed-and-they-dont-have-a-backup

inf cloud computing fun

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  • The fact that T-Mobile and/or Microsoft Danger don’t have a redundant backup is simply inexcusable, especially given the fact that the Sidekick is totally reliant on the cloud because it doesn’t store its data locally.
  • Francesco Biscani on 11 Oct 09
     
    Some foreseen dangers of cloud computing become reality...
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Slashdot Technology Story | Is Cloud Computing the Hotel California of Tech? - 2 views

tech.slashdot.org/...g-the-Hotel-California-of-Tech

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shared by Francesco Biscani on 06 Oct 09 - Cached
  • the cloud is still largely a one-way road into Web services, with closed data networks making it difficult to impossible to move data into competing services
Francesco Biscani

Expert panel urges NASA to revive futuristic think tank - space - 07 August 2009 - New ... - 0 views

www.newscientist.com/...dn17568

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  • NASA should revive its Institute for Advanced Concepts, a blue-skies idea mill that closed in 2007, says an expert panel – but it says the new incarnation should have its feet a little closer to the ground.
  • Francesco Biscani on 09 Aug 09
     
    NASA should revive its own ACT, expert panel says.
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