We'll be talking about the future of OP-ED | Driving Into The Future With No Hands On The Wheel
by Heath W. Fahle
Posted: Feb 18, 2012 8:51am
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?
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.
SpaceX announced today that it will be delaying its mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
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.
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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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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
For the past 20 years, a world-leading manufacturer of microphones, headphones and wireless transmission systems has based its U.S. operations out of -- and here's the surprise -- Old Lyme. 
The National Reconnaissance Office, after decades of secrecy, hosted a one day display of a secret spy satellite that was used from 1971 - 1986. It could resolve images to 2-3 feet from orbit, dropping exposed film canisters back to earth where they were picked up by airplanes in mid-air.
ANDI, the brainchild of the Greater New Haven Arts Council, is a new iPhone app hitting the market Monday. The name is an acronym standing for “Arts, Nightlife & Dining Information.” It puts the local arts and culinary scene in your pocket.
CTTechJunkie.com contributors Tony Land and Kimberly inge are at Cape Canaveral this week for the launch of the 
..when I went on a winter hiking trip in the Catskill Mountains in New York, I noticed something strange about the shape of the tree branches. I thought trees were a mess of tangled branches, but I saw a pattern in the way the tree branches grew. 
Astronaut Ron Garan captured a meteor entering Earth's atmosphere below the orbit of the International Space Station August 14, 2011. The photo was taken during the peak of the 
Politicians and civic leaders of all stripes converged on the shiny new YMCA in Hartford’s North End for the announcement of a new private enterprise to bring cheap, high speed internet to residents of the Capital city.
After a journey of almost three years, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has reached the Red Planet's Endeavour crater to study rocks never seen before. 
Yahoo has cost its shareholders so much money that a buyer would now be able take over the most-visited U.S. Web portal for less than the value of its stakes in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Yahoo Japan Corp.
CTTechJunkie’s Lon Seidman will give an illustrated talk on the last Space Shuttle launches and future of the manned space program this Thursday, February 16, at the Essex Library (33 West Ave in Essex, CT). The event begins at 7:00 p.m. and is free. RSVP via this 
The ground-breaking bariatric surgeries that have become a common treatment for obesity can change lives in a matter of months — often faster than the patients can adjust to these changes.
The Obama administration has been working behind the scenes over the last few years to upgrade information technology throughout the federal government in an effort to improve intra- and inter-agency communication.
CTTechJunkie’s Lon Seidman appeared on the Colin McEnroe Show today to discuss what happens next in the SOPA / PIPA battle.
Overachieving college students may soon be able to generate revenue from their notebooks when Israeli startup Sleeve launches later this year.
Ford is set to release two plug-in vehicles this year, responding to competing vehicles from General Motors, Nissan, and Toyota.
General Motors will conduct what amounts to a voluntary recall of several thousand Chevy Volts to strengthen post-crash battery integrity.
For a team of NASA scientists, the New Year was marked by the successful process of inserting the agency’s two Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) satellites into Lunar orbit. 
CTTechJunkie will be an additional home for the 
Recent action by Universal Music against journalists from a popular technology podcast network hints at what the Internet might look like under SOPA/PIPA if the Motion Picture Association of America gets its way in Congress.
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