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Inside Nasa's astronaut training centre

Inside Nasa's astronaut training centre

...Discovery and Endeavour — survive as space-faring vehicles today. Photo credit: Nick Heath/silicon.com Read more

25 November, 2010 by Nick Heath

1,000-node big data workbench to crunch analytics' toughest problems

EMC launches Greenplum Analytics Workbench to analyse petabyte-scale datasets and pave the way for future big data platforms Read more

23 May, 2012 by Nick Heath

EMC gets 'Mavericks' with Isilon file system

The next version of OneFS, code named Mavericks, drastically cuts access times as well as adding data protection and recovery features to complement the Isilon storage OS Read more

22 May, 2012 by Nick Heath

EMC eyes cloudscape with massive product push

At EMC World, the company has introduced 42 software and hardware products for storage, data management and virtualisation, saying there is no point in taking a 'one size fits all' approach to cloud needs Read more

22 May, 2012 by Nick Heath

Birmingham City Council transfers IT roles to India

Up to 100 posts transferred offshore by the end of the year... Read more

24 May, 2011 by Nick Heath

Identity scheme echoes ID cards, say campaigners

The government's new identity assurance scheme has shades of the scrapped ID card plan, campaigners at No2ID have warned Read more

24 May, 2011 by Nick Heath

ID cards: Why they were destined to fail

David Blunkett and others explain why the mega-IT project fell out of favour Read more

8 June, 2010 by Nick Heath

Photos: Robots through the ages: From lunar explorers to emotional machines

...and developed within MIT's Leg Laboratory between 1991 and 1993. Nick Heath/silicon.com Read more

2 June, 2010 by Nick Heath

Photos: Inside London 2012 Olympic Games tech lab

...and 130 servers spread over 2,000 square metres. Photo credit: Nick Heath/silicon.com Read more

20 January, 2011 by Nick Heath

Robot photos: AI androids to footballing humanoids

...moves using six wheels and can turn in any direction. Photo: Nick Heath/silicon.com Read more

9 March, 2011 by Nick Heath

Gesture control: Touching the future of computing

...robot hand Cannan has been controlling with his gesture-recognition softwarePhoto: Nick Heath/silicon.com Cannan believes acoustic myography may be suited to tracking the... Read more

17 March, 2011 by Nick Heath
Facial recognition, gesture tech leads the way

Facial recognition, gesture tech leads the way

...suited to judging audience reaction to signs, videos and products. Photo: Nick Heath/silicon.com Read more

8 March, 2011 by Nick Heath

Nasa's Orion: The next generation of spacecraft computing

...Orion cockpit dashboard is used inside a flight simulator(Photo credit: Nick Heath/silicon.com) The fiddly dials, gauges and switches that littered the cockpit... Read more

1 December, 2010 by Nick Heath
Nasa puts space station software to the test

Nasa puts space station software to the test

...with duplicate station hardware in the software integration laboratory. Photo credit: Nick Heath/silicon.com Read more

30 November, 2010 by Nick Heath
Behind the scenes at Nasa mission control

Behind the scenes at Nasa mission control

...Inside Nasa's Mission Control Center on silicon.com. Photo credit: Nick Heath/silicon.com Read more

9 November, 2010 by Nick Heath

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