A privately funded race to land a rover on the moon could cost each team well more than the US$20 million grand prize they're vying for, but all of the contestants view Google's Lunar X Prize as a new engine for business in space.
Google has announced it has sponsored the Google Lunar X Prize, a robotic race to the moon with a purse of US$30 million.
NASA's remote Mars debugging tricks have lessons for earthlings.
The sun erupted in a series of major solar flares for the second time in less than a week, producing geomagnetic storms that could threaten satellites, power grids and communications networks.
New technology makes old ideas obsolete, but when those ideas are part of a global regulatory tradition going back a century they're difficult to shift.
From faulty satellites nearly causing World War III to the Millennium Bug, poorly executed IT has had a lot to answer for over the years
The Internet pioneer has big ideas for Google Earth and mobile phones. He's also got his eyes on outer space.
Disposable satellite transmitters, inexpensive medical testing equipment and sensors for automatically tracking inventory or traffic patterns will become possible over the next 10 years through developments in nanotechnology, speakers at the Nanotech 2003 conference said Monday.
Nokia's previous colour-screen handsets--the 7650 and 9210--were commendable efforts, but they eventually proved to be a strain for tight pockets and small handbags. Now with the 7210, the market leader has come up with a cell phone that looks as good as it is compact.
This is one of our favourite times of the year. The staff at the RMIT IT Test Lab gets to play with the ultimate in multimedia PCs.
Google Chrome OS demonstration
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Surf the Net like it's 1991 with Gopher
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