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Submission + - Google Announces Page Speed: The Google CDN (techcrunch.com)

Submitted by leetrout on Thursday July 28, 2011 @08:26AM

leetrout writes: TechCrunch covers the announcement from Google where they introduce their Page Speed Service which "is the latest tool in Google’s arsenal to help speed up the web. When you sign up and point your site’s DNS entry to Google, they’ll enable the tool which will fetch your content from your servers, rewrite your webpages, and serve them up from Google’s own servers around the world."

Checkout the details on the PSS homepage at http://code.google.com/speed/pss/ or try a demo of the service at http://www.webpagetest.org/.

Submission + - Space X Successfully Launches Falcon 9 Rocket (msn.com) 1

Submitted by leetrout on Friday June 04, 2010 @02:58PM

leetrout writes: Space X has successfully launched a 2 stage rocket, the Falcon 9, into Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The successful launch came after a failed attempt earlier today. Read the entire article at MSNBC

Submission + - Palm is up for sale (bloomberg.com)

Submitted by leetrout on Monday April 12, 2010 @12:09AM

leetrout writes: Bloomberg is carrying the story. From the article "Palm Inc., creator of the Pre smartphone, put itself up for sale and is seeking bids for the company as early as this week, according to three people familiar with the situation."

Submission + - NASA Releases Restored Apollo 11 Video (wired.com)

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leetrout

on Thursday July 16, 2009 @03:34PM

leetrout writes: "I attended a media briefing held by NASA at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. this morning where they released restored video of the Apollo 11 mission. The clips released are about 40% of the total footage to be restored by September by Lowry Digital in Burbank, CA. Wired has all the clips A couple remarkable comments made during the briefing included the opinion from the original footage search committee that the original slow scan footage (stored as a single track on telemtry tapes) has been lost forever as the tapes were likely recycled by the mid '80s (apparently common NASA practice). Also, that some one from the applied physics laboratory was in Australia converting the slow scan directly to video. This differs from NASA's goal of merely broadcasting the event, which it was successful at. Unfortunately, no one knows where those tapes of approximately 2 hours of footage are located."

Submission + - NASA's Orion Fails Parachute Test (foxnews.com)

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leetrout

on Friday August 22, 2008 @12:45PM

leetrout writes: "Fox News has the story on a parachute test failing on a mock up of the new Orion spacecraft. "This is the most complicated parachute test NASA has run since the '60's," said Carol Evans, test manager for the parachute system at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. "We are taking a close look at what caused the set-up chutes to malfunction. A failure of set-up parachutes is actually one of the most common occurrences in this sort of test." Space.com has the video."

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