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Moon 2.0: the Google Lunar X Prize
“…and this time we’re planning to stay!” Moon 1.0 was abandoned 35 years ago in 1972. Don’t miss the very, very cool rollout video for Moon 2.0. The $30 million Google Lunar X Prize is the largest...
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Interview with Peter Diamandis
h+ Magazine has a short interview by Alex Lightman with X Prize founder Peter Diamandis. Most of the discussion is around Peter’s new project Singularity University. Web publishing of selected lecture...
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Astrobotic lander advances to all-composite design
If I were betting on this X Prize competition I would have to pick “Red” Whittaker’s team Astrobotic (the Carnegie Mellon University spinoff). They’ve been testing the third generation prototype of...
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Google self-driving cars
Charles just sent us the link to this NYT Science article on Google’s self-driving car program. We’ve been following the Stanford-Volkswagen program — I did not know that Google was participating. Is...
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More on Google’s self-driving car program
Stanford’s Sebastian Thrun is my hero for steering the Stanford DARPA Urban Challenge project to success. Thrun is one of the hired-guns on Google’s high intensity project (think a bit on the...
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