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Submission + - Nasa's SLS Moon Rocket Leaves For Testing (bbc.com)

Submitted by Excelcia on Thursday January 09, 2020 @10:13AM

Excelcia writes: The first core stage for the Space Launch System, intended to get us back to the moon by 2024, has just left Boeing's manufacturing center in New Orleans for launch readiness tests. This is very good news for the troubled project which has been plagued by delays and cost overruns. Back when it was thought the system would launch in 2017, the cost estimate was $19-$22billion for the program. But now the race is on in earnest to see who can get super-heavy lift into orbit, and it looks like NASA is finally out of the starting gate. The next step is a full-power burn of the four Space Shuttle RS-25 engines.

Submission + - Google Patents Frowns and Winks To Unlock Your Phone (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Excelcia on Thursday June 06, 2013 @01:09PM

Excelcia writes: Users could soon be asked to pull a series of faces to unlock their Android phones or tablets. Google has filed a patent suggesting users stick out their tongue or wrinkle their nose in place of a password.

Requiring specific gestures could prevent the existing Face Unlock facility being fooled by photos. The software could monitor if there were changes in the angle of the person's face to ensure the device was not being shown a still image with a fake gesture animated on top.

Submission + - SCO v. Novell Goes to the Jury (groklaw.net)

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Excelcia

on Friday March 26, 2010 @07:02PM

Excelcia writes: "Closing arguments in the six and a bit year old slander of title case between SCO and Novell occurred today and the case is finally in the hands of the jury. It's been an interesting case, with SCO alternately claiming that the copyrights to UNIX did get transferred to them, and that the copyrights should have been transferred to them.
Judge Ted Stewart said, after the jury left to begin to deliberate, that in all his years on the bench, he's never seen such fine lawyering as in this case.

We're not going to find out the results until at least Tuesday, however, as one jurist is taking a long weekend. Great lawyering notwithstanding, we can all hope next week that the energizer bunny of all spurious lawsuits will finally go away."

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