Monthly Archives: January 2013

Video: Phoenix Rising, Darpa Satellite Repurposing

Posted on January 27, 2013 by Demoman

Recent updates on the Phoenix program, indicate Darpa aims to create a new network of communications satellites by sending up robots to harvest body parts from old communications satellites. Insert space zombie joke here.*

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Wave Powered Energy Moves Forward.

Posted on January 27, 2013 by Demoman

Wave energy backers in Oregon – who hope to see the state become the center for the technology’s development in the US – were celebrating on Friday. 

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No Longer Legal to UNLOCK your Mobile Phones.

Posted on January 27, 2013 by Demoman

Mobile phones purchased beginning Saturday can no longer be legally unlocked by U.S. consumers to enable them to work on different networks. 

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Satellite Imagery of China’s first Long range Jet transport revealed

Posted on January 5, 2013 by Demoman

A week after the publication of blurry photographs depicting what appears to be China’s first long-range jet transport, Danger Room has obtained satellite imagery of the new plane at an airfield in central China.

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