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World's largest spaceship docks with ISS

World's largest spaceship docks with ISS

...A photo taken from the International Space Station shows the European Space Agency's cargo spacecraft approaching for an automated docking and delivery of vital... Read more

12 April, 2012 by James Martin

SOCA: Police can monitor file download histories

...files have deleted their download histories, according to the Serious Organised Crime Agency. On Wednesday evening, SOCA hailed the success of an operation against music... Read more

16 February, 2012 by David Meyer
ESA gives green light to Skylon spaceplane

ESA gives green light to Skylon spaceplane

...The European Space Agency (ESA) has completed a technical assessment of the Skylon spaceplane and concluded... Read more

27 May, 2011 by Ben Woods

Police threaten RnBXclusive music downloaders with jail

...The UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency has arrested a proprietor of RnBXclusive, a website that allegedly provided copyright... Read more

15 February, 2012 by David Meyer
The future of graphene

The future of graphene

...a materials science research programme to rival Cern, or the European Space Agency. Ferrari began our conversation with a note of caution. Although graphene promises... Read more

15 June, 2011 by Lucy Sherriff

Space exploration: The computers that power man's conquest of the stars

...different computer systems that Nasa needs to support and almost eliminated the agency's reliance on custom-built hardware. Today there are two computer workstations... Read more

25 September, 2010 by Nick Heath
Europe's IT <endeca_term>Agency</endeca_term> kicks off in Estonia

Europe's IT Agency kicks off in Estonia

...The European Union has opened the doors on a new agency in charge of managing large database systems with an EU-wide scope... Read more

22 March, 2012 by David Meyer

British e-waste still being dumped in Africa

...in contravention of environmental regulations, according to an NGO. The Environmental Investigation Agency has said that electronic waste is still being dumped in Africa in... Read more

17 May, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Border Agency plans network of biometric booths

...The UK Border Agency is planning a network of booths to take foreigners' fingerprints and photos... Read more

21 January, 2011 by Kable

Artificial intelligence: Helping man to explore the cosmos

...universities or ESA's own Proba craft - the mini satellites the space agency uses to show technologies can work in orbit before they are used... Read more

8 October, 2010 by Nick Heath

Payments agency reports doubled IT costs

...The Rural Payments Agency's IT costs are double that of comparable organisations, according to an... Read more

22 July, 2010 by Kable

IT inadequacies impede UK Border Agency systems

...The independent chief inspector of the UK Border Agency has highlighted its failure to complete the roll out of an electronic... Read more

8 July, 2010 by Kable

Police IT agency plans £1bn in cuts

...on course to save national policing £1bn by 2015, according to the agency's chief executive. The National Policing Improvement Agency's (NPIA) chief Peter... Read more

1 July, 2010 by Nick Heath

Stricken space probe Phobos-Grunt sends more data

...The European Space Agency has managed to make contact with Russia's failed Phobos-Grunt space... Read more

24 November, 2011 by David Meyer

Raytheon seeks £500m e-Borders payoff

...its suppliers". In July, Raytheon received a £5m payoff from UK Border Agency (UKBA) for the termination of the contract and any possible infringement of... Read more

26 August, 2011 by Tom Espiner

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knapper

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I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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I'm imagining Batman-style sonar imaging that will detect the cat and Lego bricks in the dark - I'm going to be disappointed aren't I?

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It is useful for their lifes,and also this matters are important for networking students.

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DarkDown

yeah! all we want free software

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Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

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itsajob

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Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

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UnderINK

I agree with the previous commenter wholeheartedly. I couldn't say it better myself. This is very 'Big Brother'. And while I agree with protecting...

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Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe

Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

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Jason Burchell

seriously now. I've only bothered to read a small bit of the comments. do me and the rest of the world a favour. stop saying it does not work or...

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