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Twin NASA probes approach lunar orbit
Twin NASA spacecraft are set to blast into lunar orbit at the weekend on a mission to study the subterranean structure of the Moon in order to better understand the origins of planets. The first Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL-A) will begin orbiting the Moon at 2121 GMT on…
MIT to offer labs, certificates to virtual students
BOSTON (Reuters) – The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is developing technology that will allow students taking courses online to use simulated labs, interact with professors and other students, and earn certificates. “The driver is to reach everyone out there who can’t be here,” MIT Provost Rafael Reif said on a…
U.S. power grid needs cybersecurity protection: panel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The threat of cyberattacks on the U.S. power grid should be dealt with by a single federal agency, not the welter of groups now charged with the electric system’s security, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reported on Monday. While acknowledging there is no absolute insurance…
Mayor Bloomberg calls the NYPD ‘my own army’
New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg said the New York Police Department was like his own personal military force during a speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, according to PolitickerNY. “I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world,” he said.…
‘Sugar Babies’: Internet ‘dating’ for money
WASHINGTON — Pretty young women and older men of means — ‘sugar babies’ and ‘sugar daddies’ — are pairing up thanks to a US website that openly offers companionship for money, but balks at the word prostitution. SeekingArrangement.com (SA) — which bills itself as the “premier Sugar Daddy dating site”…
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