The successor NASA plans for the Hubble Space Telescope will continue to receive funding throughout 2012, representatives from the American space agency announced recently. Still, this was not the only problem plaguing the project, and its fate has yet to be fully decided.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is o... |
17 January 2012
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The Senate version of the 2012 fiscal year appropriation bill was marked yesterday, September 14, a huge milestone for the endangered NASA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The House version of the same act proposed that the project be terminated despite obvious progress.When that announcement was first made, the in... |
15 September 2011
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A recent report according to which a dozen US-based Internet service providers were hijacking customer search traffic might result in the companies being summoned before the Senate's Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law.A group of researchers from the International Computer Science Institute... |
11 August 2011
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The United States Senate has been asked to consider a bill about piracy, which directly involves the video game industry, which would make it tougher for illegal content to be distributed and has tougher consequences for the websites that allow such content to proliferate.
The new bill is called the Preventing Rea... |
16 May 2011
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The American space agency could get an additional $3 billion in funding for the development of a heavy-lift delivery system to be used in upcoming missions. The organization may also get $350 million in space sciences funding boosts. This would raise the total NASA budget for the remainder of the fiscal year to no le... |
9 March 2011
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Authorities in Washington approved one of the most important piece of legislation ever signed in the past few years. The history food safety legislation is the first major change to be adopted in this field in the last 70 years or so, experts say. The US Senate, in a 73-to-25 vote, decided to pass the Food Safety Mod... |
1 December 2010
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The NASA authorization bill, a three-year, $50-billion effort to set the United States on a path to continue space exploration, was not taken up by the US House before recessing on September 24.This basically means that measure will not be voted on before the midterm elections, which are now scheduled to take place N... |
27 September 2010
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A “green trade war” between the United States and some of its key economic partners could become an imminent possibility, a leading group of industrialists told the Congress in a recent letter. The confrontation could be triggered by the fact that the new climate bill, which is scheduled to go into voting... |
23 July 2009
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On the halls of the Congress, in Washington DC, many a politicians are currently spending their spare time writing various messages on the social website Twitter, with thousands of people following their every word. Some say that this is an excellent method of communicating with individuals in their states, without h... |
2 March 2009
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From the earliest, planning, stages of the U.S. economic stimulus bill, Microsoft has indicated strong support for the initiative, arguing the critical necessity of the financial package. Last week, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer addressed the U.S. House of Representatives Democratic Caucus Retreat, ... |
11 February 2009
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The American National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has received $600 million from the US House of Representatives, as part of an economic stimulus plan passed on January 25th. However, the Senate version of the bill is a bit different and grants NASA in excess of $1.5 billion, of which $500 million are... |
3 February 2009
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Pay2Play is Yanki's first of three games lined up for an App Store release. The Illinois Governor trading game has been submitted to Apple for approval, with games 2 and 3 being a week from submission. Pay2Play includes "alcopops" - recently banned by the Illinois legislature from ad-supported games.The soon-to-... |
2 February 2009
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What's the solution if you have a specific inquiry about some government information that is supposed to be publicly available? You type in the exact URL of the site the information is on? Not likely, I doubt that government sites are the first thing on your mind every morning when you get out of bed, and if the... |
14 November 2007
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In case you haven't heard, the super giant Google will have to meet the Senate officials in order to talk about the DoubleClick acquisition. The investigation over the DoubleClick transaction was started when several companies such as Microsoft and AT&T demanded the regulators to analyze it because it might infr... |
28 September 2007
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I could bet that Google will have to talk with the US Senate over the DoubleClick acquisition. So this is it. The Mountain View company's officials will have to explain the US Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights how the DoubleClick deal won't represent an unfair move for... |
24 September 2007
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