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PASADENA, Calif. -- Five years after the NASA rover Spirit landed on Mars, the six-wheel robotic geologist and its twin Opportunity are still on the job.Comment:
Time: 12:50 PM on Tuesday
WASHINGTON -- A new NASA report says that the seat restraints, suits and helmets of the doomed crew of the space shuttle Columbia didn't work wellComment:
Time: 2:33 PM on Saturday
An all-Canadian moon rover is just one project being considered as the head of the Canadian Space Agency puts the final touches on a long-term plan to chart its future course.Comment:
Time: 10:11 PM on Friday
SYDNEY, Australia–A proposed Internet filter dubbed the "Great Aussie Firewall" is promising to make Australia one of the strictest Internet regulators among democratic countries.Comment:
Time: 8:47 PM on Friday
TORONTO -- After a cell phone goes skinny dipping in a portable coffee mug, many are likely to think it worthy of a repair instead of financing a new one.Comment:
Time: 3:49 PM on Friday
A British Columbia company believes it has developed just the right product for a thirsty world, one that produces fresh, clean drinking water out of thin air.Comment:
Time: 4:09 PM on Friday
Computer hobbyists and researchers take note: two U.S. scientists have created a step-by-step guide on how to build a supercomputer using multiple PlayStation 3 video-game consolesComment:
Time: 11:36 AM on Tuesday
SAN FRANCISCO -- Users of all current versions of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser might be vulnerable to having their computers hijacked because of a serious security hole in the software that had yet to be fixed Monday.Comment:
Time: 11:19 AM on Tuesday
Canadian computers — many of them unwittingly — send out over nine billion spam e-mails a day, almost five per cent of all global spam traffic, according to a report from network and internet security firm Cisco.Comment:
Time: 8:26 AM on Wednesday
Le, a scientific genius from Brampton in Ontario, Canada, said he never had time to find a real partner so he designed one using the latest technology.Comment:
Time: 8:05 PM on Thursday
Some Tasers deliver a higher level of electricity than the manufacturer promises, reveals a series of tests on 41 stun guns that was commissioned by CBC News and Radio-Canada.Comment:
Time: 4:29 AM on Monday
After two months of brainstorming, designing and redesigning, it all came down to three seconds.
That was the secret to building a better robot for a team of five high school students who won first place in an engineering robotics competition in OshawaComment:
Time: 12:15 PM on Sunday
NEW DELHI - When gunmen started spraying Mumbai with bullets and seizing the city's landmarks, countless people around the globe turned not to the television or the radio for news, but to each other.Comment:
Time: 10:33 AM on Sunday
A joint initiative between a Ryerson University computer science professor and his colleague in the school's fashion department has resulted in a device that allows rescue dogs to transmit video and audio of disaster victims that humans can't reach.Comment:
Time: 8:37 AM on Friday
OTTAWA - When NASA returns to the moon, Canadian-built eyes could show its lunar rovers where to drive.Comment:
Time: 8:56 AM on Wednesday
This fall, executives at Montreal radio station CKAC were stunned to learn that nearly three times as many people were tuning in to Canadiens hockey broadcasts as previously thought.Comment:
Time: 2:00 PM on Tuesday
A meteorite that smashed into Alberta 1,100 years ago could lead to more scientific discoveries, researchers at the University of Alberta said Tuesday, days after a fireball streaked across the skies over Saskatchewan and AlbertaComment:
Time: 8:12 PM on Monday
Facebook welcomed on Monday a U.S. court ruling against a Montreal spammer ordered to pay 873 million dollars in damages for sending unwanted messages to users of the popular social network.Comment:
Time: 9:06 PM on Thursday
A sophisticated speaker system, described as a "bull-horn on steroids," may be one of the most effective weapons designed at repelling hijackers on the high seas, according to an anti-piracy expert.Comment:
Time: 7:01 PM on Monday
A University of Toronto supercomputer still in the process of being built was powerful enough already to make a list of the fastest supercomputers in the world.Comment:
Time: 12:04 PM on Monday
It is as thick as your arm, gungy and smells disgusting - and it has just been caught on camera for what is thought to be the first time.Comment:
Time: 6:37 AM on Sunday
Yes, we’re talking to you. Adrian Weckler examines 12 ways that the technology you use every day could land you in hot water with the law.Comment:
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Time: 3:33 PM on Friday
Along with delivery of regular household items like a fridge and exercise equipment, the International Space Station is getting a gadget you won't find at home: a machine that turns urine into drinking water.Comment:
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Time: 11:07 PM on Friday
ATHENS, Greece -- For thousands of years the Acropolis has withstood earthquakes, weathered storms and endured temperature extremes, from scorching summers to winter snow.Comment:
Time: 11:05 PM on Thursday
An invention hailing from B.C.'s Simon Fraser University that harvests energy from the motion of walking has been named one of Time magazine's prestigious Best 50 Inventions of 2008.Comment:
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Time: 9:21 PM on Sunday
You may have texted relatives on the other side of the planet, made a long distance call from a jetliner or used your cellphone to read emailsComment:
Time: 2:32 PM on Thursday
TOKYO - A 43-year-old player in a virtual-world game became so angry about her sudden and unexpected divorce from her online husband that she logged on with his password and killed his digital persona, police said Thursday.Comment:
Time: 2:22 PM on Thursday
A P.E.I. businesswoman has donated specially designed oxygen masks to all of the Island's fire departments for the rescue of dogs suffering from smoke inhalationComment:
Time: 9:24 AM on Thursday
Microsoft Corp. is issuing an emergency patch for its Windows operating system on Thursday, outside of its regularly scheduled monthly updates.Comment:
Time: 9:48 PM on Tuesday
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