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Murdoch's Sky News admits hacking 'canoe' man's emailsLondon (AFP) April 5, 2012 Sky News, the British broadcaster partly owned by Rupert Murdoch, admitted on Thursday that it had illegally hacked into the emails of a man who notoriously faked his own death in a life insurance scam. Sky News said it had authorised reporter Gerard Tubb to access emails belonging to John Darwin and his wife Anne, who faked his death in a 2002 canoe accident before starting a new life in Panama with the insurance payout. But the broadcaster insisted the hacking was in the public interest as mat ... read more |
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  Plutonium to Pluto: Russian nuclear space travel breakthrough A ground-breaking Russian nuclear space-travel propulsion system will be ready by 2017 and will power a ship capable of long-haul interplanetary missions by 2025, giving Russia a head start in the o ... more | .. |
  Spy satellite-carrying rocket blasts off A Delta 4 rocket was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, on a mission to deliver a spy satellite to orbit, officials said. ... more | .. |
 James Murdoch quits as BSkyB chairman James Murdoch resigned as chairman of British pay-TV giant BSkyB Tuesday, saying he did not want to become a "lightning rod" for the hacking scandal at his father Rupert's media empire. ... more | .. |
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  Handover of Japan-built Radar to NASA On March 30, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) officially handed off a new satellite instrument to NASA at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. The Dual-frequency Precipitation Ra ... more | .. |
 NASA and ATK Push Ahead With Booster for Deep Space Exploration System NASA and ATK hascompleted the first test for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) booster program March 28 at ATK's Promontory, Utah, test facility. This demonstration was a key avionics and controls te ... more | .. |
 Orbital Receives Order for Minotaur I Space Launch Vehicle From USAF Orbital Sciences reports that the U.S. Air Force has exercised an option order for a Minotaur I space launch vehicle to support the ORS-3 "Enabler" mission for the Operationally Responsive Space (OR ... more | .. |
  Boeing Completes Parachute Drop Test of Crew Space Transportation Spacecraft Boeing has completed a parachute drop test of the company's Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft at the Delmar Dry Lake Bed near Alamo, Nev. CST-100 is part of the Boeing Commercial Crew T ... more |
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Trump deploys nuclear submarines in row with Russia
Navy F-35 jet crashes in California
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  Hardware 'bug' hits TomTom nav devices The Dutch maker of TomTom satellite-navigation units says a "leap year bug" has caused a fault resulting in some of the devices malfunctioning. ... more | .. |
  US scientists launch personalized robot project Imagine going to a local store, picking out a design for a robot to help with some household chores, and having the device built within a matter of hours. ... more | .. |
 Facebook fans get to play out celebrity fantasies A trio of console videogame stars joined the online social play revolution with a free-to-play title that lets folks at Facebook virtually live out celebrity fantasies. ... more | .. |
 New Study Calls For Recognition of Private Property Claims in Space 150 years ago in 1862, amidst the bloodiest war in our nation's history, the Lincoln administration had the foresight to pass two historic pieces of legislation: the Pacific Railway Act and the Home ... more |
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 Orbital Celebrates 30th Anniversary of Company's Founding Orbital Sciences has celebrated the company's first three decades in the space business as it completed 30 years of operations since the enterprise's founding on April 2, 1982. At anniversary events ... more | .. |
 Spy robot can jump 30 feet straight up The U.S. Army has tested a reconnaissance robot that can jump 30 feet into the air, high enough to vault into a second story window, its maker says. ... more | .. |
  Outside View: Obama's message to Medvedev Judging from the avalanche of negative comments about U.S. President Barack Obama's open microphone missile gaffe his Republican opponents got an unexpected windfall that can turn around or at least reduce the advantage in ratings that Obama presently enjoys. ... more | .. |
  First F-35 For The Netherlands Rolls Out Of F-35 Production Facility The first F-35 Lightning II for The Netherlands rolled out of the F-35 production facility on April 1. This is the latest step in the production process leading to its eventual assignment to Eglin A ... more |
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Airbus CO3D satellites begin mission to generate high precision global 3D map
NASA teams with India to launch Earth-tracking satellite
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 B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber Completes First Ever Polar Test Mission Under contract to the U.S. Air Force, Northrop Grumman's B-2 Spirit stealth bomber has completed its first 18.5-hour sortie over the North Pole to validate new flight management software. The ... more | .. |
 NATO awards Typhoon support contract NATO has signed a five-year contract with Germany's Eurofighter Jagdflugzeug GmbH for support of Typhoon aircraft flown by four countries. ... more | .. |
 Iran 'advises' Arab neighbours against missile shield Iranian Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi on Wednesday "advised" neighbouring Arab states in the Gulf not to adopt a missile shield project being promoted by the United States. ... more | .. |
 Boeing Completes On-cost, On-schedule Delivery of F-15K Slam Eagles to Korea Boeing has delivered the final two F-15K Slam Eagles to the Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF) on April 2 at Daegu Air Base. All ROKAF F-15Ks were delivered on cost and on schedule. "Boeing i ... more |
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 Boeing, Mitacs Sponsor Advanced Technology Research with Brazil and Canada Boeing in conjunction with Brazilian university researchers and Mitacs of Canada, expect ideas that were generated during a two-day Visual Analytics workshop in Sao Paulo to lead to high-tech projec ... more | .. |
 Raytheon Awarded UK MOD Paveway IV Replenishment Contract The UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) has awarded Raytheon UK a replenishment contract for Paveway IV, the latest generation GPS precision-guided munition, as part of a 60 million pound contract. R ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Receives Contract To Maintain Shared Early Warning System for US Space and Missile Command The system that provides U.S. Theater Combatant Commanders and partner nations with U.S. missile event information will continue to be supported by Lockheed Martin. The U.S. Air Force Electron ... more | .. |
 Northrop Grumman Awarded US Army III Corps Training Command Contract The U.S. Army has awarded Northrop Grumman a five-year, $100 million contract to continue support of the III Corps Mission Command Training Center (MCTC). The program, which was awarded under ... more |
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Light driven visual microphone offers new tool for silent sound detection
Ancient Roman concrete longevity offers mixed sustainability benefits
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  Radioactive fluid leaks at French nuclear reactor Radioactive cooling fluid leaked at a French nuclear reactor Thursday following two small fires, but the spillage was safely collected in special tanks, officials said. ... more | .. |
 Japan passes $1.1 trillion budget Japan passed a 90.3 trillion yen ($1.1 trillion) budget on Thursday, with about half the spending expected to be financed by new bonds that will add to Japan's massive debt mountain. ... more | .. |
 Fukushima leak may have flowed into Pacific: TEPCO About 12 tonnes of radioactive water has leaked at Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, with the facility's operator saying Thursday that some may have flowed into the Pacific Ocean. ... more | .. |
 At least eight dead in Nairobi landslide Massive boulders crashed onto houses Wednesday in Mathare, a Nairobi slum, killing at least eight people after a night of heavy rains, police and the Kenyan Red Cross said. ... more |
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  Brazil's Rousseff to raise 'currency war' in US President Dilma Rousseff will next week propose to US counterpart Barack Obama that the two countries work together to end the "currency war" that is hurting Brazil, a spokesman said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Google chief betting big on social and mobile Google co-founder Larry Page on Thursday said that his first year back at the company's helm has been marked by big bets on social networking and mobile gadgets. ... more | .. |
 US sees promise in China economic reforms China's leaders are sliding their toes further into the tide of economic reform, exciting ripples of cautious optimism in the United States, where Wall Street and Main Street could benefit. ... more | .. |
  Outside View: Modest jobs growth expected Forecasters expect the U.S. Labor Department on Friday to report the U.S. economy added 201,000 jobs in March, down from 227,000 in February but in line with the moderate pace of economic recovery. ... more |
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