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Despite the success of NASA’s Spirit and Opportunity missions, directors remained anxious today over the first-ever landing of a probe near Mars’ north pole to find signs of life. The Mars Phoenix Lander was wrapping up its 296-day, 422 million-mile journey with about a 50-50 chance of a successful touchdown, NASA officials said

The team was concerned about the Phoenix landing system. NASA had not successfully landed a probe on Mars using landing legs and stabilizing thrusters since the Viking missions in the late 1970s. The other three successful Mars landings –…

As startups vow to beat the once stubborn agency back to the moon, officials and analysts say NASA has begun to shift its priorities?and cash?toward a dependence on the growing independent market for spacecraft.

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The suitability of robots for space missions is obvious: they’re tough, they’re precisely controllable, they don’t sissy out and die without air and they can live for years on a battery.

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Google’s dominance in online search hasn’t stopped hundreds of startups from trying to build a better mousetrap. Each is trying a new twist on search: geography, crowdsourcing, tags, user annotations, learned hierarchies and timelines. With $20 billion spent on online advertising every year, a killer search application can make a lot of money.

The title of the above post is an interesting one: Does the World Need Another Way to Search? My answer is: Of course! I strongly believe in the concept of “Ideal Solution” or what some people may call “Free, Perfect,…