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NASA Sensors To Guide Spacecraft To Safe, Distant LandingsHampton VA (SPX) Aug 20, 2010 NASA is developing technologies that will allow landing vehicles to automatically identify and navigate to the location of a safe landing site while detecting landing hazards during the final descent to the surface. This is important because future missions - whether to the Moon, an asteroid, Mars or other location - will need this capability to land safely near specific resources that are located in potentially hazardous terrain. Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va., has designed three lig ... read more |
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Islamabad (AFP) Aug 19, 2010The United Nations on Thursday estimated 4.6 million people are still without shelter after Pakistan's devastating floods, tripling its target number for assistance as it prepared to drum up more aid. The UN has described Pakistan's worst humanitarian crisis as one of the world's biggest disasters, but while foreign aid is now reaching some of the 20 million flood victims, critics have slamm ... more  
Berlin (AFP) Aug 19, 2010Responding to a firestorm of protest in Germany over its disputed Street View navigation service, Google said Thursday it would extend a deadline for allowing people to opt out. The move is part of an effort to calm a virulent debate over privacy concerns with the service, which allows users to view online panoramic still photos taken at street level using specially equipped vehicles in citi ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Aug 19, 2010China's current account surplus surged by 30 percent in the second quarter of 2010 from the same period last year, official data showed Thursday, amid strong demand for Chinese-made goods. The current account surplus - the broadest measure of trade with the world - reached 70.5 billion dollars in the April-June period, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange said in a statement on its ... more |
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Taiwan's Foxconn says it will hire 400,000 more in ChinaTaipei (AFP) Aug 19, 2010 Taiwan IT giant Foxconn plans to hire up to 400,000 new employees in China over the coming year, partly to keep up production despite cutting maximum overtime hours, officials said Thursday. The company, a major supplier to brands such as Apple, Dell and Nokia, said the expansion plan, coming after a series of suicides this year, will boost its work force to 1.3 million. "We're not sure if that can be done, but that's the direction we're aiming for," Foxconn spokesman Arthur Huang told AFP. ... read more |
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