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…
NASA Needs Asteroid Hunters – Houston Press (blog)
NASA Needs Asteroid HuntersHouston Press (blog)Since a trip to Mars is years and a whole lot of scientific development away, NASA is focusing on asteroids. If you’ve always dreamed of saving the planet from an asteroid, now is your chance.…