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Japan's Sharp to sell talking robot vacuum cleanerTokyo (AFP) May 8, 2012 Japanese electronics giant Sharp said Tuesday it had created a robot vacuum cleaner capable of recognising and responding to simple voice commands in several languages. The Cocorobo understands dozens of phrases such as "good morning", "clean the room" and responds differently "depending on the cleaning situation", Sharp said in a statement. It will also update owners on the battery level, when the dust collector needs emptying and such and even has a camera to take snaps of areas that need clea ... read more |
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  Next Galileo satellites to launch after the summer The European Commission has announced the launch date of the next pair of ESA-procured Galileo satellites. These will be launched together on a Soyuz from French Guiana on 28 September, joining the ... more | .. |
  Second AEHF Military Communications Satellite Launched The second Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF-2) military communication satellite, built by a Lockheed Martin team for the U.S. Air Force, was successfully launched Friday from Cape Canaveral A ... more | .. |
  US to conduct 'largest ever' missile defense test - Pentagon The US plans to conduct 'the largest ever test launch' of its missile defense program elements to intercept and destroy five 'enemy' missiles- three medium-range ballistic missiles and two cruise mi ... more | .. |
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  SpaceX Launch Targeted for May 19 Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, of Hawthorne, Calif., on Friday targeted May 19 for the launch of its upcoming demonstration mission to the International Space Station. This follows ... more | .. |
 A trio of Ariane 5 launchers are now at the Spaceport Arianespace's ability to support the sustained launch pace for its heavy-lift Ariane 5 is being demonstrated once again as vehicles for the next three missions are now together in French Guiana. ... more | .. |
Air Force launches 2nd advanced satellite The 45th Space Wing successfully launched the second Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite onboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V vehicle here Friday from launch pad 41 at 2:42 p.m. A ... more | .. |
 ULA Launches Advanced Extremely High Frequency-2 Satellite to Orbit for the U.S. Air Force A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the Advanced Extremely High Frequency-2 (AEHF-2) satellite for the United States Air Force lifted off from Space Launch Complex-41 here at 2:42 ... more |
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Romania says Russian drone breached its airspace
MSBAI wins DoD contract to accelerate OrbitGuard for space situational awarenes
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 United Launch Alliance Urges IAM Members to Vote in Favor of New Contract United Launch Alliance (ULA) has urged its employees represented by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) to vote this Sunday, May 6, in favor of a new three-year c ... more | .. |
  Boeing Completes Full Landing Test of Crew Space Transportation Spacecraft Boeing has completed the second parachute drop test of the company's Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft on May 2 at the Delamar Dry Lake Bed near Alamo, Nev. The test demonstrated the pe ... more | .. |
  Aerojet's AJ26 Flight Engine Successfully Hot-Fire Tested for Orbital's Antares Rocket Aerojet, reports that its AJ26 engine successfully completed a hot-fire test yesterday at NASA's Stennis Space Center. Orbital Sciences Corporation (Orbital), Aerojet and NASA monitored the fu ... more | .. |
 Russia Develops Revolutionary Ammonia Rocket Engine Power engineering manufacturer Energomash has started development of a new rocket engine which could vastly reduce the cost of rocket launches and avoid the need to produce hydrogen for fuel, the ma ... more |
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 House panel OKs $1B for Israel's missiles Amid concerns about rising tensions in the Persian Gulf, a U.S. House of Representatives defense subcommittee has approved nearly $1 billion for Israel's anti-missile defense program, the highest single appropriation for the four-system project. ... more | .. |
  Lockheed Martin's DAGR Engages Moving Target in Apache Demonstration Lockheed Martin's Direct Attack Guided Rocket (DAGR) successfully tracked and engaged a moving target in a recent demonstration at Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz. "DAGR hit a moving target from 3.5 ... more | .. |
 F-35 Lightning II Flight Test Update Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II flight test program continues to make progress during the first four months of 2012. In March, the program completed 123 test flights totaling 223 flight hours, s ... more | .. |
 Raytheon fires Excalibur from G6 self-propelled howitzer Raytheon has fired four Excalibur 155mm precision-guided artillery projectiles from the Denel-manufactured G6 self-propelled howitzer as part of a field trial demonstration. Multiple rounds of ... more |
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Ash improves methane yield and fertilizer value in biogas systems
Bio-oil from agricultural and forest waste could help seal abandoned oil wells and store carbon
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 Boeing KC-46 Tanker Program Completes Preliminary Design Review The Boeing KC-46 Tanker program has completed a Preliminary Design Review (PDR) with the U.S. Air Force, a key milestone in the development of the next-generation aerial refueling tanker. The ... more | .. |
  Munich Re reports return to profit after tsunami blow Munich Re, the world's biggest reinsurer, said on Tuesday it had returned to first-quarter profit after a difficult start to 2011 hit by the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan. ... more | .. |
  Quantum dots brighten the future of lighting With the age of the incandescent light bulb fading rapidly, the holy grail of the lighting industry is to develop a highly efficient form of solid-state lighting that produces high quality white lig ... more | .. |
  Fast, low-power, all-optical switch An optical switch developed at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) spurs the prospective integration of photonics and electronics. What, isn't electronics good enough? Well, nothing travels faster tha ... more |
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 Power generation technology based on piezoelectric nanocomposite materials developed by KAIST The team of Professor Keon Jae Lee from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, KAIST, has developed new forms of low cost, large-area nanogenerator technology using the piezoelectric c ... more | .. |
 Game-powered machine learning opens door to Google for music Can a computer be taught to automatically label every song on the Internet using sets of examples provided by unpaid music fans? University of California, San Diego engineers have found that the ans ... more | .. |
  Life-size, 3D hologram-like telepods may revolutionize videoconferencing A Queen's University researcher has created a Star Trek-like human-scale 3D videoconferencing pod that allows people in different locations to video conference as if they are standing in front of ea ... more | .. |
 3-D pod like something from Star Trek A Canadian scientist says he has created a Star Trek-like 3-D pod to allow people in different locations to talk as if they are standing in front of each other. ... more |
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Manipulating light to advance quantum entanglement research
Top Japan start-up Sakana AI touts nature-inspired tech
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  Google self-driving car gets green light in Nevada The state of Nevada has issued a license plate giving Google's self-driving car the green light to travel along public roads. ... more | .. |
  US to push China 'hard' for procurement access The United States will push China hard to open up restricted access to its vast state-controlled procurement market, the Treasury's top international official said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Fewer toxic toys and textiles in EU stores Europe last year saw its first drop in the number of toxic toys and skin-irritating textiles stacked on its supermarket shelves, more than half of them made in China, the EU said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Toshiba's profit drops by nearly half to $921 mn Japan's Toshiba said Tuesday that its full-year net profit fell by almost half to $921 million, hit by a strong yen, weak digital product sales, and last year's natural disasters in Japan and Thailand. ... more |
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  Twitter challenges US subpoena seeking user data Twitter is challenging a court order to turn over to law enforcement data on one of its users involved in Occupy Wall Street in a case described by a civil liberties group as a major test of online freedom of speech. ... more | .. |
 Robot reveals the inner workings of brain cells Gaining access to the inner workings of a neuron in the living brain offers a wealth of useful information: its patterns of electrical activity, its shape, even a profile of which genes are turned o ... more | .. |
 Colors burst into contemporary architecture White stopped being the official colour of architecture a while ago. New buildings have now been transformed and fragmented and they display movement and innovation thanks to the versatility of colo ... more | .. |
 Analyzing energy potential from minor discrete sources Sensors, radio transmitters and GPS modules all feature low power consumption. All it takes is a few milliwatts to run them. Energy from the environment - from sources such as light or vibrations - ... more |
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