Kara Swisher in Media on January 27 at 1:33 am PT
Our beautiful home in the deep, dark universe.
Liz Gannes in News on December 27, 2011 at 5:00 am PT
The Voyager 1 spacecraft is getting awfully close to the outer edge of our solar system.
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Ina Fried in News on December 11, 2011 at 9:13 am PT
Google’s top three executives want to save
Hangar One, NASA’s iconic Moffett Field airship house. Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt are willing to pay the $33 million price tag in full, as long as they can park their eight private jets there once the revamp is done. NASA is said to be weighing the offer, according to the
Mercury News.
Kara Swisher in News on December 6, 2011 at 6:04 am PT
Hey geeks, the comics might have been right about Counter-Earth!
News Byte
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on August 16, 2011 at 4:45 pm PT
Three months after America’s first chief technology officer recommended that the federal government move as much of its IT infrastructure to the cloud as possible in order to
save a few billion dollars, cloud provider Amazon says it has just such a service ready to roll. Amazon announced today the launch of
GovCloud, a “region” within its Amazon Web Services aimed specifically at U.S. government agencies and their security needs.
Peter Kafka in Social on August 1, 2011 at 3:30 am PT
Sure, you can use Twitter to tell people what you had for breakfast.
But you can also deliver messages that are literally out of this world.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on April 28, 2011 at 6:00 am PT
HP’s four-year, $2.5 billion contract makes it the supplier of desktops and collaboration services to the U.S. space agency. It’s taking the job just as NASA heads into a period of transition.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on March 22, 2011 at 7:15 am PT
Big Blue has promised to spend $20 billion on software over the next five years. Today it grabbed a company that specializes in managing the costs associated with running big buildings.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on February 9, 2011 at 4:05 pm PT
Rackspace acquires a team best known for its work building a computing cloud for NASA.
Andy Kessler, Co-founder, Velocity Capital Management in News on January 4, 2011 at 9:53 am PT
This fall, the Chinese National University of Defense Technology announced that it had created the world’s fastest supercomputer, Tianhe-1A, which clocks in at 2.5 petaflops (or 2,500 trillion operations) per second. This is the shape of the world to come—but not in the way you might think.
