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NASA Embraces Amazon Cloud, Leaves OpenStack Behind

NASA was one of the primary driving forces behind OpenStack, an effort to provide an open source alternative to Amazon's popular cloud services. But as OpenStack takes off in other places, the space...

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Software | Historic Mars Landing Brought to You by …Windows XP?

Microsoft's Windows XP got a surprise endorsement as triumphant NASA scientists hi-fived coworkers just before sitting down to take press questions after the historic landing of the Curiosity Mars...

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Microchips | Martian Computing Is Light on RAM, Heavy on Radiation Shielding

While the cosmic-ray problems that Curiosity Rover is facing are many times worse than anything you’d see here on earth, they’re also the kind of problem that chipmakers are increasingly having to...

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Software | NASA Pulls Off 160-Million-Mile Software Patch

If you think it's tough to keep your computer or smartphone's software updated, try keeping a space robot updated from 350 million miles away.

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Research | NASA Builds Your Own Private Satellite — With Google Android

What would you do with your own private satellite? If you haven't decided, you should. PhoneSat -- a project overseen by NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley -- wants to lower the cost of...

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Data Centers | Why We Need a Supercomputer on the Moon

Should we build a supercomputer on the moon? It would be a mammoth technical undertaking, but a University of Southern California graduate student thinks there’s a very good reason for doing this: It...

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History | For Sale: Laptop With First Presidential E-Mail (to John Glenn in...

A 14-year-old Toshiba laptop that supposedly contains the first ever presidential email is up for sale on eBay. The "buy it now" price is a cool $125,000, but it does come with a fair amount of...

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Research | Brits Beat Yanks in Google Android Space Race

Last year, NASA's Ames Research Center announced plans to launch an Google Android-powered nano-satellite into space. A test unit has already been sent into suborbit, and a space launch is set for...

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Cloud | Ex-NASA Tech Boss Crams Cloud Into Box

Chris Kemp isn't one to fall in line. As the chief information officer at the NASA Ames Research Center, Kemp spearheaded the creation of Nebula, a software platform that overhauled NASA's approach to...

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Microchips | Google, NASA Open New Lab to Kick Tires on Quantum Computer

If machines are going to become as smart as Google and NASA want them to be, they may need a whole new type of computing to get them there. Quantum computing, that is. So today Google said it’s opening...

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Research | Google’s Quantum Computer Proven To Be Real Thing (Almost)

Google bought one. And so did Lockheed Martin, one of the planet's largest defense contractors. But we still can't agree on what it is. D-Wave, the company that built the thing, calls it the world's...

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Google’s Quantum Computer in Limbo After Government Shutdown

Google just barely dodged a bullet. The NASA team booted up their D-Wave Two just days before the federal government shutdown would have put a complete stop to the project. But with NASA and Ames...

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Google Races Quantum Computer Against Its Own Web Empire

Google's online empire is known for its speed. The web giant has spent the last decade fashioning a worldwide network of data centers and computer servers with the sole aim of delivering information to...

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