Tech Renaissance Man Elon Musk Talks Cars, Spaceships and Hyperloops at D11

“Mars is a fixer-upper of a planet, but we could make it work,” says Tesla and SpaceX head Elon Musk.
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Google Joins Supercomputing Project

Google Inc. plans to help create a new laboratory to study quantum computing, a high-profile endorsement of the esoteric technology — and a Canadian company that has been pursuing it since 1999.

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NASA Telescope Imperiled by Glitch

Space engineers are struggling to regain control of the Kepler space telescope, which has lost its ability to aim accurately at the star systems it has been scanning for planets similar to Earth, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said Wednesday.

Startup Nebula Launches a Plug-and-Play Cloud Computer

Turn it on, and it boots up a cloud.
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Keeping Up With Sandy on Twitter

There’s a storm coming.
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NASA Engineers Prep for a Software Upgrade. On Mars.

And you thought your last upgrade was complicated.
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Exclusive: Bain Capital Ventures Invests $20M to Let Robotics Do the Heavy Lifting 4moms

The stroller built by 4moms for moms: It opens and closes with a push of a button, and charges your cellphone, too.
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“We Are on Mars Again. It’s a Great Day.”

Precisely on time and target, NASA’s Curiosity rover touched down safely on Mars Monday to begin an ambitious two-year trek through a mountainous crater that promises to reveal whether the red planet was ever hospitable to life.

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NASA Awards $1.1 Billion for Commercial Space Development

Boeing Co. and closely held Space Exploration Technologies Corp. have won government commitments totaling $900 million, the biggest federal financial award yet to assemble and test commercially owned and operated manned space capsules.

“Soggy Pork”: The Other White Meat

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