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NASA Meteoroid-Spotting Program Captures Brightest-Yet Moon Impact

Slashdot - Fri, 2013-05-17 22:12
From a NASA press release published Friday: "For the past 8 years, NASA astronomers have been monitoring the Moon for signs of explosions caused by meteoroids hitting the lunar surface. 'Lunar meteor showers' have turned out to be more common than anyone expected, with hundreds of detectable impacts occurring every year. They've just seen the biggest explosion in the history of the program." Watch the flash for yourself.

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NASA Meteoroid-Spotting Program Captures Brightest-Yet Moon Impact

Slashdot - Fri, 2013-05-17 22:12
From a NASA press release published Friday: "For the past 8 years, NASA astronomers have been monitoring the Moon for signs of explosions caused by meteoroids hitting the lunar surface. 'Lunar meteor showers' have turned out to be more common than anyone expected, with hundreds of detectable impacts occurring every year. They've just seen the biggest explosion in the history of the program." Watch the flash for yourself.

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NASA Meteoroid-Spotting Program Captures Brightest-Yet Moon Impact

Slashdot - Fri, 2013-05-17 22:12
From a NASA press release published Friday: "For the past 8 years, NASA astronomers have been monitoring the Moon for signs of explosions caused by meteoroids hitting the lunar surface. 'Lunar meteor showers' have turned out to be more common than anyone expected, with hundreds of detectable impacts occurring every year. They've just seen the biggest explosion in the history of the program." Watch the flash for yourself.

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NASA Meteoroid-Spotting Program Captures Brightest-Yet Moon Impact

Slashdot - Fri, 2013-05-17 22:12
From a NASA press release published Friday: "For the past 8 years, NASA astronomers have been monitoring the Moon for signs of explosions caused by meteoroids hitting the lunar surface. 'Lunar meteor showers' have turned out to be more common than anyone expected, with hundreds of detectable impacts occurring every year. They've just seen the biggest explosion in the history of the program." Watch the flash for yourself.

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NASA Meteoroid-Spotting Program Captures Brightest-Yet Moon Impact

Slashdot - Fri, 2013-05-17 22:12
From a NASA press release published Friday: "For the past 8 years, NASA astronomers have been monitoring the Moon for signs of explosions caused by meteoroids hitting the lunar surface. 'Lunar meteor showers' have turned out to be more common than anyone expected, with hundreds of detectable impacts occurring every year. They've just seen the biggest explosion in the history of the program." Watch the flash for yourself.

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NASA Meteoroid-Spotting Program Captures Brightest-Yet Moon Impact

Slashdot - Fri, 2013-05-17 22:12
From a NASA press release published Friday: "For the past 8 years, NASA astronomers have been monitoring the Moon for signs of explosions caused by meteoroids hitting the lunar surface. 'Lunar meteor showers' have turned out to be more common than anyone expected, with hundreds of detectable impacts occurring every year. They've just seen the biggest explosion in the history of the program." Watch the flash for yourself.

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NASA Meteoroid-Spotting Program Captures Brightest-Yet Moon Impact

Slashdot - Fri, 2013-05-17 22:12
From a NASA press release published Friday: "For the past 8 years, NASA astronomers have been monitoring the Moon for signs of explosions caused by meteoroids hitting the lunar surface. 'Lunar meteor showers' have turned out to be more common than anyone expected, with hundreds of detectable impacts occurring every year. They've just seen the biggest explosion in the history of the program." Watch the flash for yourself.

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Google Demos Linux Running on Hacked Glass

Linux Today - Fri, 2013-05-17 21:00

All Things 3D: Although Google is offering a limited set of developer tools for Glass — and more are on the way — the company doesn't want to stop hackers from tinkering even further.

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IRS chief declines to identify employees involved in scandal

Reuters: Technology - Fri, 2013-05-17 19:54
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The outgoing head of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service angered Republican lawmakers on Friday by resisting their demands that he identify who at the tax-collection agency had inappropriately targeted conservative groups for extra scrutiny.

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Password Strength Testers Work For Important Accounts

Slashdot - Fri, 2013-05-17 19:33
msm1267 writes "Many popular online services have started to deploy password strength meters, visual gauges that are often color-coded and indicate whether the password you've chosen is weak or strong based on the website's policy. The effectiveness of these meters in influencing users to choose stronger passwords had not been measured until recently. A paper released this week by researchers at the University of California Berkeley, University of British Columbia, and Microsoft provides details on the results of a couple of experiments examining how these meters influence computer users when they're creating passwords for sensitive accounts and for unimportant accounts."

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Google builds crowdsourcing into new Maps code stack

The Register - Fri, 2013-05-17 19:26
Wants a unique map for every user

Google I/O Google has been giving more details about how it has redesigned its Maps software by adding in crowd-sourced photographic and driving directions to its coding scheme.…

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Google's Native Code browser tech goes cross-platform

The Register - Fri, 2013-05-17 19:06
Write web modules in C/C++ that run on both Intel and ARM

Google I/O At its annual I/O conference in San Francisco this week, Google unveiled a new version of its Native Client technology that allows developers to deploy binary code for web applications in an architecture-independent way.…

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Train derails in Connecticut, at least 20 people hurt

Reuters: Technology - Fri, 2013-05-17 18:58
(Reuters) - Some 20 to 25 people were injured on Friday when a train derailed near Fairfield, Connecticut, but there were no reports of fatalities a police spokesman said on Friday.
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Crowdsourced Network Planning For Connection-Bridging Startup

Slashdot - Fri, 2013-05-17 18:29
An anonymous reader writes "Tom's Hardware reports on the Connectify Switchboard software that "divides the user's traffic between Wi-Fi, 3G/4G and Ethernet-based connections on a packet-by-packet basis. Even a single stream — such as a Netflix movie — can be split between two or three Internet connections for a higher resolution and faster buffering." As part of its Kickstarter campaign, Connectify is geolocating their backers to optimize deployment of their servers. This is a clever way for supporters to influence the project beyond pledge levels and stretch goals, and it's actually kind of fun to watch."

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Yahoo! to 'share something special' in New York on Monday

The Register - Fri, 2013-05-17 18:17
Is hastily called event related to Tumblr rumblings?

Yahoo! will hold a "product-related news event" this upcoming Monday with CEO Marissa Mayer in attendance to "share something special."…

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Oil price probe widens, senator wants Justice Department help

Reuters: Technology - Fri, 2013-05-17 17:58
LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A European probe into possible oil price manipulation expanded with the investigation of a small niche trading house in the Netherlands, while a key U.S. senator on Friday called for the Justice Department to join the investigation.
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IRS chief declines to identify employees involved in scandal

Reuters: Technology - Fri, 2013-05-17 17:51
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The outgoing head of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service angered Republican lawmakers on Friday by resisting their demands that he identify who at the tax-collection agency had inappropriately targeted conservative groups for extra scrutiny.

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Cell Phones As a Dirty Bomb Detection Network

Slashdot - Fri, 2013-05-17 17:48
First time accepted submitter iinventstuff writes "The Idaho National Laboratory has built a dirty bomb detection network out of cell phones. Camera phones operate by detecting photons and storing them as a picture. The INL discovered that high energy photons from radiological sources distort the image in ways detectable through image processing. KSL TV reports that the INL's mobile app detects radiation sources and then reports positive 'hits' to a central server. Terrorists deploying a dirty bomb will inevitably pass by people carrying cell phones. By crowdsourcing cell phones, the INL has created a potentially very large, inexpensive, and randomly mobile radiation detection grid."

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Pentagon chief vows to 'fix' military's sexual assault problem

Reuters: Technology - Fri, 2013-05-17 17:32
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered top military chiefs on Friday to redouble their effort to address the problem of sexual assault, saying the frequency and perceived tolerance of the crime was eroding the military's ability conduct its mission.

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Unemployment rates drop in most states, Illinois climbs

Reuters: Technology - Fri, 2013-05-17 17:22
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Unemployment rates dropped in 43 out of the 50 U.S. states and in the District of Columbia in April from a year before, according to Labor Department data released on Friday.
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