Building your own rocket or robot? NASA has code for you
Ever wish you could get your hands on the software that NASA used to launch its Apollo lunar missions or to get robots working on Mars? If so, NASA has something for you.
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Apple slates WWDC for June 2-6, sets up ticket lottery
Apple has announced that its annual developers conference will run June 2-6, and that it's copying Google's method of assigning tickets through a random drawing.
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Microsoft slates April 8 release of Windows 8.1 Update
Microsoft today said that it will ship a Windows 8.1 refresh, a set of new features designed to make the struggling OS easier to use for customers with a mouse and keyboard, on April 8.
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Microsoft to live stream Build keynote today
Microsoft will webcast the opening keynote address from its Build developers conference today starting at 8:30 a.m. PT (11:30 a.m. ET).
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Where's the touch-first Office for Windows?
When Microsoft unveiled Office for iPad, neither CEO Satya Nadella nor the company said much of anything about a similar touch version for Windows 8.1. Analysts expect that to change this week.
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Researchers 3D print micro trusses as strong as steel, lighter than water
Using 3D laser lithography, a team of German scientists have created micro-truss and -shell structures from ceramic polymer composites that exceed the strength-to-weight ratio of all engineering materials, with a density below 1,000 kg/m.
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Tip of the Hat: Java 8: A step ahead, or just keeping pace?
Observers are split on whether the latest Java version gives the software a new edge or simply lets it keep up with other top programming languages.
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Nothing fishy here! MIT builds soft, robotic swimmer
MIT researchers have created a soft, autonomous robotic fish that can change direction in a fraction of a second -- nearly as fast as a real fish can.
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Google to release wearables SDK in few weeks
Google is getting ready to release a software development kit that will help developers build apps for wearable computers on the Android platform.
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U.S. firm's 2,600 engineers in Ukraine stay busy amid turbulence
In 1993, a few years after immigrating to the U.S., Arkadiy Dobkin, an electrical engineer trained in Minsk, Belarus, started a company that aimed to tap the IT engineering talent developed in the former Soviet Union.
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Tip of the Hat: Google's Project Ara unmasked
Since disclosing last fall that an internal research team is developing an open hardware platform for creating highly modular smartphones, Google has offered few details of the effort, dubbed Project Ara.
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Linux snapshot: Pay rates and employers with the most job ads
If paychecks are any kind of a measure, then people with Linux skills are doing better than most.
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Google yanks option to restore Chrome's old-style new tab page, riles users all over again
Google has removed the option that let Chrome users restore an older version of the new tab page, closing that loophole and showing the oft-criticized scheme to everyone.
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Swarm of bat-like flying robots could hunt for survivors or terrorists
If one day a swarm of small flying robots are used to search for survivors after an earthquake, credit may go to a team of Virginia Tech scientists and their study of bats.
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Tip of the Hat: What would unlikely merger bring to Tesla, Apple
Computerworld offers a Tip of the Hat to Richard Read of The Christian Science Monitor for a look at The Tesla-Apple rumors and what such an unlikely deal could mean for Apple's developers and users, and what it could bring to Tesla.
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