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NASA Cash Rockets Two X-Prize Space Teams Into the Void (in a Good Way)

August 31st, 2010 brandon93s Comments off

NASA-crusr

Under its Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research Program–CRuSR (say it out loud)–NASA’s forking over nearly half a million dollars to Armadillo Aerospace and Masten Space Systems. It’ll help these new commercial companies reach the edge of space with their quirky experimental rockets.

Google Teams Up with CIA, Invests in Analytics Firm

July 29th, 2010 brandon93s Comments off

Both Google Ventures and In-Q-Tel, the CiA’s investment arm, have injected sums into Recorded Future, a company that goes through “tens of thousands” of websites and looks for related actions and conversations between, for example, Twitter accounts, blogs and websites, and analyses them in order to spot events and trends as early on as possible.