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NASA is passing round the champagne and not in an attempt to say goodbye to Woolworths but instead they are celebrating because they have remained a presence on the Red Planet, Mars, for a full five years. NASA originally sent a robot in 2004, called Spirit, to the planet which was later joined by its [...]

Ever wished you could move mountains with your mind? Well this new piece of cutting edge technology won?t quite let you do that much, but its still pretty cool. Emotiv?s EPOC headset is a lightweight headset that allows a user, after some configuration, to control computer functions and most excitingly games, with his/her mind. Tan [...]

? The House of Lords in the UK has decided to extradite Gary McKinnon, the British hacker who got in to several US military, defence and NASA computers, to stand trial in the United States. ? McKinnon has been fighting extradition since 2002, since it was discovered hat he?d hacked his way in to one [...]

? Virgin founder, billionaire, and the UK?s favourite boss, Richard Branson has unveiled a new high-altitude jet that will allow tourists to reach new heights. ? The jet will act as the ?mothership? for a spacecraft, releasing it in mid-air so it can take two crew and six passengers on sub-orbital flights. ? Already over [...]

Launching from the Kennedy Space Centre last Wednesday, a Delta 2 rocket fired the telescope to its destination in an impressive 90 minutes. Costing $690m the telescope will pick up where its predecessor, the Energetic Gamma-ray Experiment Telescope, or EGRET, left off eight years ago. The GLAST is much faster that the previous model ? scanning the entire universe in three hours, compared to EGRET?s 15 months.

? Google co-founder Sergey Brin was clearly not satisfied with just looking at the earth via satellite as the millionaire has put done a $5m deposit on a flight to space, through a new program called Space Adventures. ? Brin is the first person to reserve a spot, leaving 5 places available in Space Adventures? [...]

IBM has designed a new $100m supercomputer named ?Roadrunner?, that is powerful enough to operate at 1 petaflop ? that?s 1 thousand trillion calculations a second (beat that Vorderman).? The system is twice as fast as the next closest super computer ? the IBM Blue Gene system – and nearly three times as fast as [...]

While the use of satellites has become something of an everyday event these days, it appears that what for years has been one of the more reliable areas of new technology is about to come crashing down to earth ? quite literally! Apparently a US spy satellite ?the size of a bus? has lost power [...]