Friday Tech News
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on July 22, 2005 at 2:33:15 PM
I'll be posting a new review tomorrow and there will be an article posted by someone, soon.
Revaluation of the yuan may hurt tech sector. That's why manufacturing should be moved ELSEWHERE.
US screws itself by setting the Patriot Act in stone.
NASA sets to launch new Mars probe.
Military satellite inspects other space objects. Air Force sends better stuff than NASA.
Revaluation of the yuan may hurt tech sector. That's why manufacturing should be moved ELSEWHERE.
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Computer companies should also have plans to identify alternative suppliers if the yuan really does spiral upward, said David I. Levine, an economics professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. "Those contingencies should be part of every high-tech company's plans," Levine said. "This relatively minor currency revaluation shouldn’t be putting those contingency plans in motion."
US screws itself by setting the Patriot Act in stone.
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The bulk of the back-and-forth centered on language making permanent 14 of 16 provisions that had four-year sunset provisions under the original law, which Congress passed overwhelmingly after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
NASA sets to launch new Mars probe.
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When it begins its two-year primary science phase in November 2006, it will glide 20% closer to the surface than any of the three spacecraft now circling the planet. From an average altitude of about 305 kilometres, it will be able to take high-resolution images over an area 10 times larger than previous surveys.
Military satellite inspects other space objects. Air Force sends better stuff than NASA.
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The Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) Space Vehicles Directorate at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico developed the XSS-11. Small, low-cost satellites such as XSS-11 are being tapped to demonstrate key capabilities, from autonomous mission planning, rendezvous and proximity operations to other functions that add to the U.S. military’s space toolkit.