TECH SPACE - ROBO DAILY

Space-Age Ceramics Get Their Toughest Test

Dec 11, 2012 (SPX)

Advanced ceramic composites can withstand the ultrahigh operational temperatures projected for hypersonic jet and next generation gas turbine engines, but real-...

Malaysia orders Australian miner to ship out waste

Dec 11, 2012 (AFP)

Malaysia has ordered Australian miner Lynas Corp. to ship out waste from its new rare earths plant following protests from environment groups and residents worr...

Google sells off more Motorola assets

Dec 11, 2012 (AFP)

Google has agreed to sell manufacturing operations of its Motorola Mobility unit in China and turn over management of a Brazil plant to Singapore-based Flextron...

Speeding Space Junk Poses Risks for Spacecraft

Dec 10, 2012 (VOA)

The amount of space junk floating around the Earth grows every year, and increasingly can pose risks to spacecraft orbiting the planet. In the United States, NA...

Elbit Systems to Provide Space Camera for the Italian OPTSAT 3000 Observation Satellite

Dec 10, 2012 (SPX)

Elbit Systems reports that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Elbit Systems Electro-Optics Elop, was awarded a contract from Israel Aerospace Industries ("IAI") to pr...

Tablet technology takes teaching into 21st century

Dec 07, 2012 (AFP)

Emma McCluskey's classroom looks much like any other. A verb chart, posters and pupils' work adorn the walls. The children lean over their desks, seven and eigh...

Smartphones might soon develop emotional intelligence

Dec 07, 2012 (SPX)

If you think having your phone identify the nearest bus stop is cool, wait until it identifies your mood.New research by a team of engineers at the University o...

NASA Investigates Use of 'Trailblazing' Material for New Sensors

Dec 06, 2012 (SPX)

Tiny sensors - made of a potentially trailblazing material just one atom thick and heralded as the "next best thing" since the invention of silicon - are now be...

Organic metamaterial flows like a liquid, remembers its shape

Dec 06, 2012 (SPX)

A bit reminiscent of the Terminator T-1000, a new material created by Cornell researchers is so soft that it can flow like a liquid and then, strangely, return ...

Judge calls for global peace in Apple-Samsung war

Dec 06, 2012 (AFP)

A judge mulling whether to trim or overturn Apple's billion-dollar damages award against Samsung on Thursday called for a ceasefire in the ongoing patent war be...

Boeing and JVC Add More Realism to Military Training Simulation

Dec 06, 2012 (SPX)

This week at the 2012 Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) in Orlando, Boeing [NYSE: BA] is demonstrating new technolog...

SES And ESA To Collaborate On Electra To Develop First All-Electric Small/Medium Sized Satellite Platform In Europe

Dec 06, 2012 (SPX)

SES has announced its participation in the upcoming Artes-33 programme "ELECTRA" of the European Space Agency (ESA). Under the ELECTRA programme, SES and ESA wi...

Apple's CEO to bring production back to US

Dec 06, 2012 (AFP)

Apple plans to bring some manufacturing of its computers from China to the United States next year, chief executive Tim Cook said, in a move aimed at sparking m...

Countdown begins to the next generation of satellites

Dec 05, 2012 (SPX)

Leading technology design and development firm Cambridge Consultants has been selected by Iridium Communications Inc. to play a key role in the deployment of Ir...

Android gains on Apple in surging tablet sector: survey

Dec 05, 2012 (AFP)

The global market for tablet computers is growing faster than earlier estimates suggested, with Android-powered devices gaining on the market-leading iPads, a s...

A better way to make chemicals?

Dec 05, 2012 (SPX)

Bulk solvents, widely used in the chemical industry, pose a serious threat to human health and the environment. As a result, there is growing interest in avoidi...

Bismuth provides perfect dance partners for quantum computing qubits

Dec 05, 2012 (SPX)

New research has demonstrated a way to make bismuth electrons and nuclei work together as qubits in a quantum computer. The discovery, published in Nature Mater...

Maths helps mobiles and tablets match eyes' ability to switch from sunshine to shadow

Dec 04, 2012 (SPX)

Researchers have pushed the boundaries of High Dynamic Range (HDR) video to match our own eyes' ability to cope with the real world's ever rapidly changing ligh...

ORNL develops lignin-based thermoplastic conversion process

Dec 04, 2012 (SPX)

Turning lignin, a plant's structural "glue" and a byproduct of the paper and pulp industry, into something considerably more valuable is driving a research effo...

Android extends global smartphone lead: survey

Dec 04, 2012 (AFP)

Google's Android operating system will power more than two-thirds of smartphones sold worldwide in 2012, and will remain the dominant platform for at least the ...