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The Obama administration may have axed NASA's ambitious manned moon exploration plans for even an even more ambitious deep space exploration agenda, but for those developing the technologies that will one day take us to deep space the moon is just too ripe a testing ground to ignore. Lockheed Martin is pitching NASA what's being called an L2-Farside Mission that [...]

Germany's Festo is no stranger to robots that mimic animal biology, but its new elephant trunk-inspired robot arm is more concerned with the fragility of human physiology than the strength of the elephant. The arm – known as the Bionic Handling Assistant – is certainly strong and flexible like the appendage it's modeled after, but it's also safe for humans [...]

iPad owners have had to sit idly by for too long as long-awaited features–multitasking key among them–came to the other gadgets in the iOS family. But today, Apple officially released iOS 4.2, which brings not only multitasking but homescreen folders, AirPlay, Game Center, a unified inbox, and other key features to the iPad. This isn’t an ordinary firmware update: It [...]