Fill 'er up: NASA project would beam power to spacecraft

The project, dubbed “Ride the Light,” aims to develop inexpensive, modular power beaming to provide on-demand power for aerospace craft and other applications.

Dr. Watson? How IBM system can improve diagnosis, treatment.

The system's deep search and analysis ability can help doctors quickly sift through mountains of data in multiple databases.

AMD processor goes to extremes, gets Guinness World Record

An AMD-assembled team of overclocking mad scientists ran the FX CPU up to 8.429 GHz, while cooling it with liquid helium. What does it mean for the average user?

Mobile devices will drive global Web use by 2015

Worldwide access to the Internet will hit 40 percent by 2015, with the manner in which it is accessed shifting drastically, particularly in the United States.

A cloaking device for tanks? Sort of.

BAE is using hexagonal plates called “pixels” that can mask the heat signature of the object they are mounted on.

Marines find that going green has military value, too

More efficient systems and solar-powered devices at forward bases can help save energy, money and, at times, even lives.

Hyper-V hypes up Windows 8 release

Microsoft has confirmed that its Hyper-V hypervisor will be part of Windows 8, though little else is known about the operating system.

NSA's open-source project aims for secure, large-scale storage

The agency has submitted its label-based Accumulo software to the Apache Incubator, asking for developer contributions.

Brian Button

Is agile software development too loosey-goosey for government?

Traditional government IT acquisition projects have delivered well-crafted solutions to problems that were relevant months and even years ago.

Smart-grid dividend: security and intelligence already built in

Regulators and power companies are doing their best to ensure that new energy distribution systems are equally secure and intelligent.

Second-guessing Irene: Could 120-petabyte array make better predictions?

A massive, 120-petabyte storage array could help improve predictions of natural disasters, suggests GCN Lab technology analyst Greg Crowe.

Mike Daconta

Why programming languages no longer matter

It is not that there is no difference among programming languages. It's just that those differences are becoming less and less a factor in choosing a development platform.

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