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NASAs new astronaut-replacing robots, powered by Google Tango smartphones, launch into space this week
2014-07-09 12:45:56| Extremetech
First robots stole our jobs here on Earth -- and now Google and NASA want to do the same to our astronauts. Later this week, Google and NASA will launch some Tango smartphone-powered SPHERES robots to the International Space Station. As their name suggests, SPHERES are spherical robots that will float through the halls of the ISS, powered by small CO2 thrusters, performing chores that would normally be carried out by astronauts. Tango, Google's sensor-laden prototype depth-sensing smartphone, will be the brain of each robot. In the future, the SPHERES robots could even perform risky tasks outside the ISS in the deep, dark, never-ending expanse.
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NASAs Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 reaches orbit
2014-07-02 18:30:36| Green Car Congress
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The vacuum tube strikes back: NASAs tiny 460GHz vacuum transistor that could one day replace silicon FETs
2014-06-24 14:12:20| Extremetech
Way back in the salad days of digital computing (the 1940s and '50s), computers were made of vacuum tubes -- big, hot, clunky devices that, when you got right down to it, were essentially glorified light bulbs. This is why early computers like the ENIAC weighed more than 27 tons and consumed more power than a small town. Later, obviously, vacuum tubes would be replaced by probably the greatest invention of all time -- the solid-state transistor -- which would allow for the creation of smaller, faster, cheaper, and more reliable computers. Fast forward to 2014, though, and the humble CMOS field-effect transistor (FET) is starting to show its age. We've pretty much hit the limit on shrinking silicon transistors any further, and they can't operate at speeds much faster than a few gigahertz. Which is why NASA's Ames Research Center is going back to the future with its new vacuum transistor -- a nanometer-scale vacuum tube that, in early testing, has reached speeds of up to 460GHz.
NASAs new InSight lander will plumb the depths of Mars in 2016
2014-05-28 18:50:30| Extremetech
In just over two years, NASA hopes to have InSight on the surface of Mars to see what makes the red planet tick.
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Master Bond\'s EP30-3LO Two Component Epoxy System Gets NASA\'s Low Outgassing Approval
2014-04-23 07:00:00| Coatings World Breaking News
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