"Government/Industries" news, interviews, and features

News about Government/Industries

• NASA spacecraft en route to historic look at mysterious Pluto

  With 7 scientific instruments onboard, New Horizons will offer 'bonanza' of information

• Cosmonauts deploy nanosatellites during spacewalk

  Planned 6.5-hour spacewalk focused on satellites and scientific experiments

• After 10 years, and billions of miles, Rosetta catches its comet

  Gotcha! European spacecraft will tag alongside, collecting data as comet sweeps past the sun

• Mars rover Curiosity's top 5 scientific discoveries

  NASA's robotic rover completes 2 years studying Mars, moving ahead to more science

• NASA's Mars rover Curiosity closes in on ultimate destination

  Robotic rover nears its second year on Mars, closes in on Mount Sharp

• NASA plans next-gen scientific tools for 2020 Mars rover

  Rover's instruments will try to make oxygen, search for minerals and signs of past life

Features about Government/Industries

• 3D printing makes its move into production

  IT needs to get ready

• Broadband faces a fork in the road

  While AT&T and Google supercharge broadband in the US, the have-nots still lag behind

• New Dell won't abandon the PC

  Post buyout, the company can push into the high-margin products and services business without Wall Street meddling, Michael Dell says.

• Fear of NSA snooping could hurt U.S. cloud vendors

  Reports suggest that the news about the NSA's secret data-collection program is causing foreign users to look elsewhere for cloud-based services.

• Businesses adopting robots for new tasks

  But will the machines and their ilk take away jobs -- even white-collar ones?

• Software employment grows 45% in 10 years, as angst in engineering grows

  One unemployed electrical engineer, whose wife challenged President Obama on H-1Bs, is back at work