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...The menu on Apollo 17 was limited....
...Last week, a verdict was passed down in the case of Walkers Snack Foods Ltd v Commissioners for His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, with first-tier tribunal judges Anne Fairpo and Sonia Gable ruling against...
...The SLS, which stands as high as a 30-storey building and is more powerful than the Saturn V rockets that carried Apollo missions to the Moon, is a monument to grand space ambition....
...Apple might design a better Tesla-type vehicle (and build one, with its $207bn of cash), but what problem would that solve?”...
...At nearly 400ft, the new SpaceX rocket will eventually be taller than the Saturn V that carried Nasa’s Apollo missions to the moon, and its 33 engines will deliver twice the thrust....
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...The latter is based on the open-source Risc-V architecture....
...That same year, the Japanese company joined the Apollo project, the self-driving development platform spearheaded by Chinese search engine provider Baidu....
...This was, like the propulsion problems solved by Nasa en route to the Moon, a matter of developing and perfecting technology — technology that later would allow us to have a genetic portrait of the cause...
...“Because Bluetooth is a mature communications technology, related semiconductors can be fully designed using RISC-V,” said Hideki Maeno of IHS Markit....
...Ages ranged from twenties to sixties; the ratio of men to women was about two to one; careers — I learnt as we chatted at mealtimes — skewed towards engineering and technology....
...Orion will look quite similar to Apollo. It will be sent up on SLS, a rocket that has a similar shape, size and lift to the Saturn V, used in the Apollo missions....
...The deal was quickly followed by an announcement by Intel, whose modems replaced Qualcomm’s in the most recent generation of iPhones, that it was abandoning its plan to design chips for next-generation 5G...
...OmniVision, an American semiconductor company that designs image sensors, was acquired in 2015 by a consortium of Chinese investors including Hua Capital, a private equity fund jointly set up by the controlling...
...Waymo has set up a Chinese subsidiary to test and design its self-driving cars, in the latest attempt by Google’s parent company Alphabet to expand in a country that blocks most Google services....
...It was this eclectic background that helped her secure her residency at the V&A, an institution dedicated to art, design and technology, which invites an artist every year to bring an independent eye to...
...That could make it easier to design new materials, or find better ways for handling existing processes....
...The latest Apple Watch delivers on the promise of 2014’s original, with a fast, responsive screen and refined user interface design....
...The architects studied several world cities before coming up with the design....
...Margaret Hamilton led the lab that developed the Apollo program’s guidance system....
...And that makes it hard not to feel sorry for Imagination Technologies — which has lost £468m in value despite patenting its chips for these devices....
...Snapchat’s geofilters are designed to capture the spirit of each location, rather than a map-style pin, and Snapchat’s “bitmoji” allows you to design an emoji in your likeness — particularly useful if, like...
...Instapaper v Pocket A big difference between the two apps is cost....
...In March, the justices agreed to consider Samsung’s argument that the damages for infringing a design patent should be based only on the value of that design to the overall product, rather than the entirety...
...There can only be one winner in the case of the actor Harry Shearer v Vivendi, the French media group, over royalties from the 1984 film, This is Spinal Tap....
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