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NASA Crater Detection Challenge
NASA Crater Detection Challenge NASA is launching a challenge to develop methods for reliably detecting crater rims in lunar images. The goal is to advance future space exploration by improving terrain-based optical navigation using visible-light cameras on spacecraft. The project involves processing orbital images of lunar terrain to detect crater rims, identify craters from a […]
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Breaking up (Google) is hard to do
Breaking up (Google) is hard to do Google is trying to defend its ad tech monopoly against a break-up, citing challenges similar to going to Mars or replacing Michael Jordan. The company’s witnesses testified that it doesn’t need to give up monopoly power to restore competition in the market. Google successfully beat a similar case […]
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NASA TechRise Student Challenge 5
NASA TechRise Student Challenge 5 NASA TechRise Student Challenge 5 is open to U.S. students in grades 6-12. The challenge provides hands-on experience in engineering, computing, and electronics for the next technical workforce. Teams will develop a science or technology experiment idea for one of two NASA flight vehicles: Suborbital-Spaceship or High-Altitude Balloon. The competition […]
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NASA’s Human Exploration Rover Challenge
NASA’s Human Exploration Rover Challenge NASA’s Human Exploration Rover Challenge is in its 31st year, an annual engineering competition that challenges students to design and build a lunar rover. The 2025 challenge required teams to power their rovers either with human pilots or remote control, with over 500 students from around the world participating. Teams […]
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Auburn Team Wins 2025 NASA Moon and Mars Design Competition
Auburn Team Wins 2025 NASA Moon and Mars Design Competition Auburn University’s team “Dynamic Ecosystems for Mars Environmental Control and Life Support Systems (ECLSS) Testing, Evaluation, and Reliability (DEMETER)” won top prize in NASA’s 2025 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) Competition Forum. The RASC-AL Competition is a unique initiative that bridges the gap […]
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Fierce Competition Among Chatbots for Being Second After Leading ChatGPT
Fierce Competition Among Chatbots for Being Second After Leading ChatGPT ChatGPT remains the leading chatbot in terms of traffic, with 500 weekly active users as of late March. Google’s Gemini has surged to 10.9 million average daily visits, a 7.4% month-over-month increase. Microsoft’s OpenAI-powered Copilot has seen a significant boost, with 2.4 million users, up […]
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How Apple lost control of the App Store
How Apple lost control of the App Store Apple has been ordered to change its App Store policies after a judge ruled that it had misled developers about external payments, buttons, and links. The ruling, made by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, requires Apple to give developers more control over how they handle these features in […]
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‘Cook chose poorly’: how Apple blew up its control over the App Store
‘Cook chose poorly’: how Apple blew up its control over the App Store A federal judge has ruled that Apple deliberately failed to comply with a court order to loosen its grip on the App Store, which was established in 2021. The ruling states that Apple chose an anticompetitive option at every step of complying […]
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Google must stop favoring Search and Chrome on Android in Japan
Google must stop favoring Search and Chrome on Android in Japan Google has been ordered by Japan’s Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) to stop favoring Google Search and Chrome on Android devices. The JFTC found that Google had made deals with at least six different Android phone makers since July 2020, which included sharing revenue and […]
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NASA to Kick Off 31st Annual Rover Competition
NASA to Kick Off 31st Annual Rover Competition NASA’s annual Human Exploration Rover Challenge returns on April 11-12, 2025, at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where hundreds of students from around the world will compete to navigate a complex obstacle course by piloting their own designed and produced vehicles. The competition […]
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