NASA regularly opens up challenges to foster development of new and exciting space technology, and it looks like it’s come up with a particularly challenging one recently — it’s asking interested parties to develop a solar-powered “Night Rover” that can store up enough energy during the day to continue to work throughout the night. That’s as opposed to the more recent crop of rovers that must do most of their work during the day, which NASA says forces them to pick and choose what tasks the rovers perform, thereby greatly reducing the chance for discoveries. It also notes that simply adding more batteries isn’t an option, since every tiny weight increase significantly adds to the cost of sending something into space.
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NASA challenge searches for a solar-powered ‘Night Rover’
It’s not often that we have an opportunity to review a fascinating new way to store and use keys — plain old keys, that is, not encryption keys, electronic keys, CD keys, or Florida Keys — so when we heard that the sanely-priced version of the Keyport was finally shipping after a three-year wait , we knew that we had to have a look.
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Keyport Slide review
Though a now-infamous Pennsylvania school district admitted to taking thousands of pictures of schoolchildren without their consent, federal investigators have decided not to pursue criminal charges. That doesn’t halt a class-action complaint against the district (which charges invasion of privacy and wiretapping) but a US attorney told reporters that FBI and police investigators hadn’t found proof beyond a reasonable doubt that school employees had criminal intent to spy on students using their school-issued laptops
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Lower Merion, PA school district cleared of Federal spying charges, approves new privacy policies
The leaks weren’t wrong , they just weren’t the whole story. A 160GB PlayStation 3 Slim is indeed coming to the US — Europe, too — but additionally, there’s a heftier 320GB Sports Champions Move bundle.
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160GB PS3 Slim, 320GB Move bundle coming to US and Europe this fall
Well, it looks like Nintendo isn’t the only gaming company that thinks Apple is the ” enemy of the future ” — Sony has now also taken aim at iPhone gaming in a new PSP ad featuring Kevin Butler ’s pint-sized counterpart, Marcus Rivers. In it, Marcus reminds viewers that the iPhone is built for things like “texting your grandma and calling your girl,” while the PSP is “built for big boy games,” some of which can be had for as little as $9.99
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Sony takes aim at iPhone gaming in new PSP ad
It’s not the biggest of releases, but progress is progress at this point. Since launching in late April, Microsoft has been rather mum on the future of its latest Windows Home Server build. This week, however, the second major beta release has been let loose into the wilds, with Vail’s most recent build now available to download there in the source link
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Windows Home Server ‘Vail’ sees new beta release, adds OS X support
It ain’t the first time this chef-d’oeuvre has been spotted in the wild, but it’s the first time that we’re confident in believing the YP-MB2 is legitimate.
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Samsung’s YP-MB2 Android PMP spotted again in the wild, inches ever closer to release
Network neutrality is the battle to keep companies from filtering your access to whatever you want on those great, united internets.
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AT&T likes Google & Verizon’s wired-only net neutrality stance, Time Warner Cable doesn’t
The 7-inch iPad rumors are suddenly hot and heavy. In the last few weeks, we’ve seen a series of reports claiming that Apple was working on a smaller iPad (or bigger iPod touch?) set for release between the end of 2010 or early 2011.
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7-inch iPad tattle churns through Taiwanese rumor mills
You may have noticed the update on our Epic 4G review from yesterday where we lauded the fact that Samsung seemed to have fixed the GPS problem plaguing every other Galaxy S flavor released thus far, but it turns out there are actually two distinct issues. One has a fix — sort of — while the other is hopefully what we’re going to get next month .
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Samsung Galaxy S GPS-gate: two problems, not one (and what to do about it)
