At NASA challenge, a 2-hour flight for $7 in electricity
The winning plane in the CAFE Green Flight Challenge achieved the equivalent of 403.5 passenger miles per gallon, representing a breakthrough in electrical-powered aviation.
FCC to tighten local accuracy requirements for mobile phones
The Federal Communications Commission wants to improve locational accuracy as part of its efforts toward enhanced 911 services.
Apple iPhone 4S gets smart, talks back
New smart phone features the artificial intelligence-powered Siri, a talking, learning personal assistant.
Amazon selling Kindle Fire at a loss, putting heat on other tablet-makers
Amazon's Gillette model for its $199 tablet is putting pressure on other device-makers to lower their prices.
Amazon unveils Kindle Fire tablet with unique Silk browser
The Fire's new features include a "split browser," called Silk, which resides both on the device and in Amazon's cloud.
A tablet with a no-touch touch screen
Portico uses cameras to let the tablet interact with surrounding objects and movements.
Space junk problem: Is a solar-sail ship the answer?
NASA is planning to test a large solar sail that could be used to navigate the upper atmosphere to clean up orbital debris.
NASA's falling satellite wasn't always a hunk of junk
Before it gained fame as a freight-car sized menace of falling space junk, NASA's Upper Atmospheric Research Satellite made worthy contributions to climate research.
Georgia blocks e-mails protesting execution, claiming DDOS attack
Saying that 800 e-mails over a 12-hour stretch amounted to a denial-of-service attack, Georgia's parole board blocked a group's pleas to stay the execution of Troy Davis.
For police, wearable cameras are the new blue
Police around the country are using body cams to record encounters with the public, collect evidence and, in some cases, protect themselves against claims of misconduct.
Do surveillance systems reduce crime?
An Urban Institute study finds that cameras have helped lower crime rates in some areas but not others. Why the different results?
Fill 'er up: NASA project would beam power to spacecraft
The project, dubbed “Ride the Light,” aims to develop inexpensive, modular power beaming to provide on-demand power for aerospace craft and other applications.
Amazon's cloud services get approval under FISMA
Amazon Web Services joins Google Apps for Government and Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite among cloud services that can say they’re certified under FISMA.
AMD processor goes to extremes, gets Guinness World Record
An AMD-assembled team of overclocking mad scientists ran the FX CPU up to 8.429 GHz, while cooling it with liquid helium. What does it mean for the average user?
Google, Microsoft cloud crashes: Is this the new normal?
Recent outages for Google Docs and Office 365 add to a string of public clouds going dark.
How 'doppelganger domains' steal data from e-mail
Researchers set up doppelganger domains — close imitations of legitimate domains — for Fortune 500 companies, then sat back and collected 20G of data from misaddressed e-mails.
Unsafe at any speed? Cars ripe for hacking, report says.
The computer systems that saturate modern cars make them a likely target for cyberattacks, McAfee says.
NSA's open-source project aims for secure, large-scale storage
The agency has submitted its label-based Accumulo software to the Apache Incubator, asking for developer contributions.
A digital 9/11 might be under way already
A digital state of war might not happen with a bang but could be what we're seeing right now: stealthy, targeted attacks that try to stay under the radar — and never, ever stop.
Calif. targets cell-phone crimes from prisons
The state wants to block unauthorized cellular transmissions and increase the penalties for smuggling phones inside prison, which is so easy even Charles Manson can get one.
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