International Business Times U.S. Will Give Up Internet Controls To Independent BodyInternational Business TimesICANN is made up of international stakeholders and government representatives. It’s supposed to be a democratic body and it calls its model of operation a “bottom-up, consensus-driven,…
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Intro Astronomy Class 6: Mars (continued) and Asteroids – The Planetary Society (blog)
Intro Astronomy Class 6: Mars (continued) and AsteroidsThe Planetary Society (blog)In my sixth class of my Introduction to Planetary Science and Astronomy class at CSUDH, I continue our exploration of Mars and then discuss asteroids. The video is below. For…
NASA Needs Coders to Help Prevent Asteroid Armageddon – IEEE Spectrum
IEEE Spectrum NASA Needs Coders to Help Prevent Asteroid ArmageddonIEEE SpectrumSavvy coders can soon help NASA defend Earth against asteroid threats and win some cash prizes in the bargain. The U.S. space agency has joined forces with an asteroid-mining company…
Asteroids Plus Titanfall Equals Retro Absurdity – Wired
Wired Asteroids Plus Titanfall Equals Retro AbsurdityWiredTiny shards of space rock heading your way in Asteroids ? They’d blow up your tiny triangle of a spaceship, but they shatter harmlessly when they hit your Titan. It completely breaks the games,…
ICANN should reject .sucks domain – MyBroadband
MyBroadband ICANN should reject .sucks domainMyBroadbandIn November 2012, ICANN’s government advisory committee issued a warning that the domain has “overtly negative or critical connotation” and a troubling potential for “defensive registrations.” New online neighborhoods began opening in January with the ….sucks…
CTO, ICANN, Others to Host First Commonwealth DNS Forum – THISDAY Live
CTO, ICANN, Others to Host First Commonwealth DNS ForumTHISDAY LiveThe Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO), the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the UK domain name registry Nominet, and Public Interest Registry, operators of the .ORG domain, will jointly…
NASA will pay $35k to asteroid hunters – Houston Chronicle
NASA will pay $35k to asteroid huntersHouston Chronicle17, 2013, at the Kennedy Space Center’s Operation and Checkout Facility in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft that will one day carry astronauts to study an asteroid and eventually on to Mars. Orion’s…
Nasa's Asteroid Data Hunter contest offers £20k reward for software to save planet – Daily Mail
Daily Mail Nasa’s Asteroid Data Hunter contest offers £20k reward for software to save planetDaily MailBut existing asteroid detection systems can only track one per cent of the estimated objects that orbit the sun, according to asteroid mining firm Planetary…
NASA contest offers prizes for citizen asteroid hunters – CBS News
NASA contest offers prizes for citizen asteroid huntersCBS NewsThe “Asteroid Data Hunter” contest starts on March 17 and runs through August. A partnership between NASA and Planetary Resources, Inc., the contest asks participants to create computer algorithms that can identify…
Want to save the world from asteroids? Using code? NASA has a job for you – VentureBeat
NPR (blog) Want to save the world from asteroids? Using code? NASA has a job for youVentureBeatWant to use your computer skills to, you know, save the world? Then NASA has the contest for you. The space agency is launching…