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How Search Engines Work

by WNPR
Posted: May 11, 2012 3:36pm

Chion Wolf Photo CTTechJunkie's Lon Seidman appeared on WNPR's Where We Live May 11 talking about how search engines work. Seidman was joined by Marshall Simmonds of Define Media Group and Rich Skrenta of Blekko.com.

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SpaceX Sets Launch Date for May 19

by Lon Seidman
Posted: Apr 23, 2012 5:26pm

SpaceX Photo The launch of the first commercial rocket to the International Space Station has been delayed again as NASA and SpaceX continue to work through software issues.

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The Geeks Who Saved Prince of Persia’s Source Code From Digital Death

by Wired.com
Posted: Apr 22, 2012 11:09am

Wired.com Wired correspondent Gus Mastrapa was on the scene in Los Angeles to witness the recovery of a piece of gaming history.

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Wethersfield, Connecticut’s Meteor Magnet

by Hartford Courant
Posted: Apr 13, 2012 1:24pm

Hartford Courant Few residents these days remember the time when space invaders landed in Wethersfield.

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CNET: MPAA’s former tech policy chief turns SOPA foe

by Staff reports
Posted: Apr 9, 2012 1:40pm

MPAA Photo A senior executive that Hollywood hired last year to be its chief technology policy officer has undergone a remarkable about-face: he now opposes the Stop Online Piracy Act.

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Google Unveils Augmented Reality Glasses

by Lon Seidman
Posted: Apr 4, 2012 1:30pm

Google photo Google publicly unveiled their “Project Glass” research project today, ending months of rumors that the search giant has been working on a wearable piece of hardware.

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NASA and SpaceX Invite Social Media Enthusiasts to April 30 Launch

by NASA
Posted: Apr 2, 2012 3:24pm

NASA and SpaceX will host a two-day event for 50 social media followers on April 29-30, 2012, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Applications are being accepted on April 5.

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Hartford Featured on the Bing Home Page March 5

by Hartford Courant
Posted: Mar 5, 2012 12:50pm

Bing Hartford was the featured image on the Bing homepage March 5.

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New England Air Museum to Hold 2012 Space Expo on April 1

by Airport News
Posted: Feb 24, 2012 2:36pm

New England Air Museum The New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks, Connecticut will hold its annual SPACE EXPO on Sunday, April 1, 2012. 

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OP-ED | Driving Into The Future With No Hands On The Wheel

by Heath W. Fahle
Posted: Feb 18, 2012 9:51am

Nevada became the first state in the nation to establish regulations governing the operation of driverless cars on their roadways this week. The action will provide companies developing such automobiles the legal protection needed to test their innovations in the real world. The development presents a pressing question for Connecticut residents as we consider our economic future: why aren’t we at the forefront of innovations like this?

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Secret Space Plane Approaching a Year in Orbit

by Space.Com
Posted: Jan 22, 2012 5:14pm

US Air Force Photo The United States Air Force's secretive X-37B space plane has been circling Earth for more than 10 months, and there's no telling when it might come down.

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SpaceX Delays Space Station Flight

by Lon Seidman
Posted: Jan 16, 2012 2:53pm

SpaceX Photo SpaceX announced today that it will be delaying its mission to the International Space Station (ISS).

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No Steve Jobs Action Figure for Connecticut?

by Ryan McKeen, A Connecticut Law Blog
Posted: Jan 13, 2012 11:04am

If you what you’ve been sitting around and thinking “you know, my life would be complete if only I had a creepy Steve Jobs action figure” – you  may be out of luck.

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NASA Heads to New England to Study Canada Snow

by NASA
Posted: Jan 12, 2012 2:35pm

Beginning Jan. 17, NASA will fly an airborne science laboratory above Canadian snowstorms to tackle a difficult challenge facing the upcoming Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) satellite mission -- measuring snowfall from space.

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SOPA Opposition Unites Conservatives and Liberals Alike

by Politico
Posted: Dec 27, 2011 4:31pm

The conservative and liberal blogospheres are unifying behind opposition to Congress’s Stop Online Piracy Act, with right-leaning bloggers aruging their very existence could be wiped out if the anti-piracy bill passes.

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TWiT Debates SOPA - Concludes Silicon Valley Needs to Step Up Lobbying Efforts

by Lon Seidman
Posted: Dec 20, 2011 9:14am

While host and TWiT network founder Leo Laporte argued that content creators should just accept a certain level of piracy, guest Nilay Patel of The Verge.com countered that some solution to dealing with online piracy needs to be found.  Both agree that SOPA and PIPA are not the answer.

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Defining journalism is a lot easier said than done

by GigaOm
Posted: Dec 16, 2011 11:27am

The ripples continue to spread from a recent Oregon court ruling involving a blogger who was sued for defamation, and argued that she should be covered by the state’s “media shield” law. The judge decided that she didn’t qualify as a journalist, which in turn reignited the old debate over whether bloggers are (or can sometimes be) journalists.

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Facebook flaw allows access to private photos

by ZDNet
Posted: Dec 6, 2011 3:57pm

A flaw in Facebook allows users to access private photos that are hidden from view, through no less than the social network’s own image reporting tool.

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Connecticut Backs off Amazon Tax

by Journal Inquirer
Posted: Nov 26, 2011 4:42pm

The state has abandoned its effort to force online retailer Amazon to collect sales tax on purchases, despite a new state law aimed at doing just that.

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NASA Tests First Component of Deep Space Exploration Vehicle

by Jay Patterson and Lon Seidman
Posted: Nov 16, 2011 11:14pm

Jay Patterson Photo One of NASA’s gigantic rocket transport crawlers was put back into service November 16, delivering a mobile launch tower and platform (ML) to launch pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center.

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New Camera on the International Space Station Reveals the “Cosmic Shore”

by NASA
Posted: Nov 3, 2011 9:47am

JAXA/NHK/NASA A new "super sensitive" HDTV camera has been installed on the International Space Station, providing imagery detailing how the atmosphere interacts with the vacuum of space.  NASA refers to this as the "cosmic shore."

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Scientific American | Why Is the CIA Keeping Climate Change Secret?

by Scientific American
Posted: Oct 24, 2011 10:18pm

Climate change is hard to hide, but the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is trying anyway. Click below to read and hear David Biello's report.

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Middletown Eye | New Parking Tech Is ‘Mean And Greedy’

by Stephen H. Devoto
Posted: Oct 24, 2011 12:09pm

The latest in parking meter technology has arrived in Middletown - a sensor in each space that detects the presence of a car. The meter resets to zero when a car leaves, so we can no longer be gifted parking time from a shopper who came before us. 

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OP-ED | The Devil Is In The Details

by Neil Tolhurst
Posted: Oct 23, 2011 8:51pm

NEIL FERSTAND Buried within the pages of your cell phone, credit card, employment agreement and many, if not most consumer contracts, you’ll find an obscure provision (if you can find it) known as a Pre-Dispute Binding Mandatory Arbitration clause. It’s a mouthful and one clause that most consumers ignore until a dispute arises, only to discover that they’ve signed away their rights.

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All Things Digital | Hearst Surpasses 300,000 Monthly Digital Subscribers

by Wall Street Journal
Posted: Sep 29, 2011 9:57am

Hearst, which is about to sell its digital magazines via Amazon’s new tablet, wants the world to know it’s selling its digital magazines on plenty of other gadgets, too: The publisher says it is now racking up more than 300,000 paid digital downloads per month.

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May 19, 2012

Better Safe Than Sorry: SpaceX Aborts Launch After High Pressure Reading

by Lon Seidman | May 19, 2012 5:53am

Lon Seidman photo SpaceX aborted the launch of its Falcon 9 rocket this morning, just a half second before it was to lift off a Cape Canaveral launch pad.

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May 12, 2012

CBIA Cyber-Challenge Enters Third Year | Podcast

by Lon Seidman | May 12, 2012 9:28pm

CT Science Center Photo The CBIA Education Foundation is hosting its third Cyber-Challenge presentation event at the Connecticut Science Center on Monday, May 21, capping a science and engineering program that spanned the school year for 115 high school freshman from three Connecticut schools.

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May 10, 2012

Behind The Video: Google’s New Broadcasting Tool, Discovery Buys Revision3

by Lon Seidman | May 10, 2012 11:47pm

Behind the Video Photo This week Tim Street, Goldie Chan, and Lon Seidman talk about Google delivering live broadcasting to everyone, a fashion video from Dior that tops the YouTube charts with 16 million views, and Revision3’s big sale to Discovery Channel for $30-$40 million.

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May 7, 2012

Hartford Students Launching Bone Density Experiment on the SpaceX Dragon | Video

by Lon Seidman | May 7, 2012 10:59pm

University of Hartford Photo Students from the University High School of Science and Engineering and the Annie Fisher STEM Magnet School in Hartford are sending a bone density experiment to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule May 19.

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May 5, 2012

Podcast: Behind the Video Episode 1

by Lon Seidman | May 5, 2012 11:11am

Behind the Video CTTechJunkie’s Lon Seidman and Tim Street have launched a new podcast that goes “Behind the Video” looking at the intersection of pop culture and web video.

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April 30, 2012

On State Street, “Maker” Movement Arrives

by Thomas MacMillan | Apr 30, 2012 2:30pm

THOMAS MACMILLAN PHOTO In an old Knights of Columbus social club, a 3-D printer whirred to life. The newly built unit is a fitting first project for a new clubhouse of tech-savvy DIY tinkerers—a machine that can make machines.

The whirring took place behind an unmarked exterior on State Street in a brick-walled room newly filled with five computers, a variety of work tables and tools, a robotic arm, an old table saw and drill press, and a salvaged laser cutter that’s being nursed back to health after a fire.

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April 23, 2012

UConn Granted Drone Aircraft Authorization For Potential Research Project

by Lon Seidman | Apr 23, 2012 3:27pm
Posted to: Aviation | Education 2.0 | Research & Development | Tech Biz

Flickr user quinet The University of Connecticut received a drone aircraft certificate of authorization by the Federal Aviation Administration, but school officials say they will be flying the aircraft for research purposes rather than surveillance. In fact, they want to build a helicopter that will fly itself.

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April 22, 2012

It’s Open Mic Night On Google+

by Lon Seidman | Apr 22, 2012 10:25am

Heather Fay photo New Haven folk singer/songwriter Heather Fay wasn’t quite ready to give up on music altogether, but some of life’s other priorities began to make her feel as though her dream was beginning to slip away—until she became one of the first users of Google’s new social media platform, Google+.

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April 19, 2012

Shuttle Discovery Officially Enters Retirement

by Jay Patterson | Apr 19, 2012 11:32am

Jay Patterson photo Space shuttle Discovery departed the Kennedy Space Center for space 39 times over the course of her 27 years of service, but Tuesday the retired spacecraft departed on the back of a specialized 747 beginning her quiet rest as a museum display dedicated to the 30 year shuttle program.

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April 14, 2012

PHOTOS | Space Shuttle Discovery Departs for the Smithsonian

by Jay Patterson | Apr 14, 2012 8:57am

Jay Patterson Workers at the Kennedy Space Center attached Space Shuttle Discovery to a specialized 747 carrier aircraft for her final journey. The shuttle will be delivered to the Smithsonian in Washington DC later this week. Work was delayed yesterday due to high winds but resumed this morning. Check out our galleries from Day 1 and Day 2 & 3.

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