Ooh la la LeWeb: The 5 coolest things from LeWeb12
This year's LeWeb was heavy on tech jargon, but we're beginning to see the Internet of Things take shape.
Curiosity Rover’s Chief Software Engineer on sending a robot to Mars (interview)
Mars may once have looked like Earth. It has seasons, polar ice-caps and once supported shallow seas and flowing streams. So did it also once support life?
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Pour some regolith on me! Curiosity’s first scoopful of Mars [video]
October 8, 2012 11:19 AM
Jolie O'Dell
This clip shows Curiosity's very first collection of Martian rocks and dust via its robotic arm's scooper, as seen from the rover's mast camera.
Curiosity’s weekly video report: now with more freaking lasers
August 31, 2012 11:49 AM
Jolie O'Dell
Nowadays, everybody wanna talk like they got somethin' to say, but nothin' comes out when they move their lips -- just a bunch of gibberish. VentureBeat readers act like they forgot about Mars.
Sending a software update through space to the Curiosity Rover on Mars
August 18, 2012 11:19 PM
Dean Takahashi
How’s this for a remote operation? NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory team had to send a software update to the Curiosity Rover on Mars, more than 160 million miles away.
The software had to be updated because Curiosity needed different software …
