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Tag Archives: technology
New Robots Scrutinize Solar Cells
The race to build a better solar cell is looping through the National Renewable Energy Laboratory where new robots are fabricating thin-film cells and analyzing glitches faster and with more precision than ever before. How much faster? The robot working with silicon can build a semi-conductor on a six-inch-square plate of glass, plastic or flexible [...]
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Shoot For The Moon?
In a budget plan put forth by the Obama administration, funding for NASA’s moon project would be cut. Under the plan, NASA would be phased out and turned over to commercial companies during the next six years. There has been an uproar over the abandonment of such a successful science program. “The president’s proposed NASA [...]
The Economics Of Y2K
The following thesis was started in 1998. As a group heavily involved in IT (information technologies), we were curious as to the implications of the Y2K (year 2000) computer “bug”. At that time, most computers had been built with the ability to handle dates using two digits for the year. When the clocks in computers [...]
Lunacy — Robots In Space
San Diego Sports Arena — The FIRST Robotics regional competition is being held at the San Diego Sports Arena. High school teams from across the country came to Southern California to compete in one of the challenges leading up to the national championships in Atlanta, GA. It was unusual for the Ambler, PA Wissahickon team [...]
Malicious Code Spreading Via Valentine’s Day Spam
US-CERT is aware of public reports of malicious code circulating via spam email messages related to Valentine’s Day. These messages contain a link to a website that contains several images of hearts and instructs users to choose one image. If users click on one of the images, they will be prompted to download an executable [...]
Malicious Code Spreading Via Valentine's Day Spam
US-CERT is aware of public reports of malicious code circulating via spam email messages related to Valentine’s Day. These messages contain a link to a website that contains several images of hearts and instructs users to choose one image. If users click on one of the images, they will be prompted to download an executable [...]
Before You Connect a New Computer to the Internet
by United States Emergency Readiness Team I. Motivating Factors The CERT/CC has composed this Tech Tip to address a growing risk to Internet users without dedicated IT support. In recent months, we have observed a trend toward exploitation of new or otherwise unprotected computers in increasingly shorter periods of time. This problem is exacerbated by [...]
Online Verification: Who Can You Trust in the Virtual World?
BusinessWeek reader and full-time law student Stephanie Dube writes that the Web offers free tools to help identify and thwart potential scammers By Stephanie Dube Plano (Tex.)-based BusinessWeek.com reader Stephanie Dube is full-time law student and freelance writer. You can find out more about her at www.StephanieDube.com/Twitter. Kaylee was struggling. Diagnosed with a heart condition [...]
Space Trash: NASA Extends Contract With Russia