Really, it’s stuck in a sand trap technically. After six years of exploring the surface of Mars, five years and nine months longer that it’s original 90 day mission, NASA has now  has now redesignated the Spirit rover a “Stationary Research Platform“. That’s not a bad run for the little twin rovers that could.
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Via PC World, a company called Cherrypal introduced a $99 netbook based on smartphone hardware. This isn’t a power netbook for the latte set, but it may prove to be a godsend for people looking to get internet access and processing capacity in the developing world.
My very first thought was that this would be a [...]

The US Navy’s Office of Naval Research released an omnibus report on the potential pitfalls of autonomous combat systems slated to be delpoyed by the US and other militaries in the coming decades. Among the report’s warnings is that future civilization could be threatened by an uprising of military robots against us all. [...]

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Five years after landing on the surface of Mars and 4 years and 275 days after mission planners expected them to stop working, the twin surface rovers Spirit and Opportunity are still going. From my point of view, those rovers represent the future of not just space exploration but of [...]

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FoxNews has an article on Lockheed’s Multiple Kill Vehicle test conducted at Edwards AFB in California at the beginning of December. Explained simply, the MKV is a warhead designed to be attached to a missile that can be used to intercept incoming ballistic (think nuclear) weapons.
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