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"In this image from late 2010, software engineers worked in the background as Glenn Research Center technician, Joe Kerka, rotated the SCaN Testbed flight enclosure assembly. The Space Communications and Navigation, or SCaN Testbed will be launched on a Japanese H–IIB Transfer Vehicle and installed on the International Space Station and will provide an on-orbit, adaptable software-defined radio facility with corresponding ground and operational systems. This will permit mission operators to remotely change the functionality of radio communications and offer the flexibility to adapt to new science opportunities and recover from anomalies within the science payload or communication system. " - Test Information Space

"The Pentagon plans to fork over $32 million to develop "fun to play" computer games that can refine the way weapons systems are tested to ensure they are free from software errors and security bugs, according to a Defense Department solicitation." - Test Information Space

"One may quibble about the details of Cochran's calculations, for example the number of core melt accidents he identifies as relevant. But the chasm between expert estimates and actual experience is so great, there is little down the general public's gut instincts have been closer to the mark than the scientists'. Of course I am not arguing that scientific opinion should have less weight in pubic affairs than it now has. Socolow is right that anti-scientific impulses in the United States and elsewhere are an alarming feature of today's world and perhaps indeed good reason to move the doomsday minute hand closer to midnight. But scientists need also remember that what they consider knowledge is merely today's best approximation of the truth and that it will not always prove just right." - Test Information Space

"A place for startups to connect with early adopters who love new apps." - Test Information Space

"Here is what I take away from the results, after re-reading everything: the cloud is a complex place. What I liked about ClouthSleuth was the time-series information, and no one has spent a year looking at what latencies are, even under these limited circumstances. Which is why I originally posted the article here. Certainly, you are not going to deploy a two-page toy website on expensive cloud providers. But I liked being able to see the entire year's worth of information, even if it is obscured by a simple arithmetic mean. And kudos to ClouthHarmony for putting so much data out in the public view too. We need both approaches, and the more information that you, the actual implentor, can get your hands on, the better." - Test Information Space

"A special report on the future of technology" - Test Information Space

"At its core, science is a reliable method for creating knowledge, and thus power. Because science pushes the boundaries of knowledge, it pushes us to constantly refine our ethics and morality, and that is always political. But beyond that, science constantly disrupts hierarchical power structures and vested interests in a long drive to give knowledge, and thus power, to the individual, and that process is also political." - Test Information Space

The key idea is that if we can get a better understanding of the psychology behind philosophical intuitions, we can have a better sense of which intuitions are worthy of our trust and which we should dismiss as unreliable or misleading. - Test Information Space

"While working on this project, Huggins attended a Maker Faire and found some suitable technology. His creation of a single-arm controller then led to his big "eureka" moment: This same technology could create a robot that can play "Angry Birds," and if a contraption can play "Angry Birds," it's a simple leap to create a system that can test any mobile application in the real world." - Test Information Space

"Economies are networks of businesses, just as businesses are networks of people, and people are networks of cells. Networks are everywhere, and the Media Lab’s fall sponsor event celebrated their ubiquity by exploring how these structured interactions affect our economy, businesses, health, and even the way we understand ourselves. How is the fate of one company connected to that of other businesses? How does the health of one individual affect that of his or her community? How do we make sense of a world that is becoming increasingly more connected–a world where complexity has become increasingly difficult to understand and manage?" - Test Information Space

"Testing has always been an integral part of the development cycle on the Force.com platform – one well-known fact is that Apex Code must have at least 75% test coverage (and ideally more!) before it is pushed into production; another, slightly less well-known, is that we run ALL eight million plus of those customer tests on EVERY release of the Force.com platform. Winter ’12 brings a number of enhancements to testing on Force.com. Perhaps most interesting for ISVs writing apps for the AppExchange is the new @IsTest(OnInstall=true) annotation. As the syntax suggests, you can now specify whether or not individual tests are run during the installation of a managed or unmanaged package. From Winter ’12 on, only methods and classes annotated with @IsTest(OnInstall=true) will be executed at install-time. Note that packages created prior to the Winter ’12 release aren’t affected by this annotation and all their tests will still be run during installation." - Test Information Space

"At Upverter, we're trying to fix hardware and we're starting with making it really easy to extend the limits of mobile devices. We're trying to make it easy to collaborate, easy to build, and easy to share. We're helping to build the tools and the lego blocks to snap together hardware. And there is going to be an incredible revolution in hardware and mobile as a result." - Test Information Space

"Levy uses an atomic force microscope, a specialized instrument that moves a probe and along a surface, to create the transistors. Another method, used by Chad Mirkin at Northwestern University, has developed ways of producing millions of such tips on a single wafer. "The idea is to do parallel writing—to have all of these different tips working in parallel," says Levy. That way, manufacturing takes a few minutes instead of a year.New Materials, New Ways of Sensing and StorageHow today's computers process information depends on a fixed architecture of ones and zeros—digital logic. Levy envisions using new materials that might not follow that same architecture. "We want the material to tell us the best way it can do computation, rather than trying to impose an old architecture that was really designed for another type of material," he says. "We want to listen to the material, and then map information processing onto what it's good at."" - Test Information Space

"Starting today, you can edit your uploaded videos right on YouTube and maintain the same video IDs. This means you keep your view count and comments, and all existing links to your video will continue to work. No re-uploading necessary!" - Test Information Space

"OwnYourInfo is a new way to manage your important and private information. Whether you need your health insurance information or your frequent flyer number, OwnYourInfo ensures simplicity, security and a comprehensive set of templates to help you access and share your information." - Test Information Space

"Necessity truly is the Mother of invention. A labour of love by a team of web developers, app developers, designers, project managers, and testers that wanted a better way to distribute and test beta apps.The "better way" couldn't be found, so a new trail had to be made. TestFlight is the result. What little pain relief we thought we had to offer ourselves, turned out to be a great need of mobile developers everywhere.A Free web service for mobile developers, project managers, and app testers." - Test Information Space

"ULTIMATE WEB FORM BUILDER, EDITOR AND MANAGER COMBINED INTO A SINGLE EASY-TO-USE PRODUCT Drag-n-drop layout allows you to create professional web forms with a few clicks only and publish them on your web-site immediately. You will just need to copy and paste the generated code. PHP Forms takes care of storing your data, enables you to save all form results in MySQL database on your server, download them as CSV file." - Test Information Space

"In this section, I’ll take you through some IE testing options that you may be using or have heard of before. I’ll explain why they might not be reliable; and then I’ll present the solutions we currently use at AOL for production websites." - Test Information Space

"Earlier this morning a rumor report stated that "Apple announced (internally) that they have put the final touch to the tools that will facilitate a diagnostic." That's interesting, considering that an Apple patent application that was just published last week introduces this diagnostic process in great detail. If you want to know more of the real details, then this is the report to read. According to Apple, the new diagnosing application that will reside on future Apple devices will be ingeniously tied into iTunes where you now get updates and so forth. It'll be an easy way to get simple device problems fixed without having to visit a Genius at the Apple Store. Now that's a great idea." - Test Information Space

"Google is finally getting around to adding offline access back to Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Calendar. Today the company announced that it was adding offline capabilities immediately to Gmail, and offline features for Calendar will be rolling out over the next week starting today. The catch is, you might have to switch browsers or wait even longer." - Test Information Space

"Sending information by varying the properties of electromagnetic waves has served humanity well for more than a century, but as our electronic chips steadily shrink, the signals they carry can bleed across wires and interfere with each other, presenting a barrier to further size reductions. A possible solution could be to encode ones and zeros, not with voltage, but with electron spin, and researchers have now quantified some of the benefits this fresh approach might yield." - Test Information Space

"UCLA professor and author, Dario Nardi, has discovered that people of different personality types don't merely rely on different brain regions -- they use their brains in fundamentally different ways. Using colorful anecdotes and brain imagery, Dr. Nardi shares key insights from his lab. Among these insights: how people of different personalities can find and sustain a state of creative flow. This talk is suitable for a general audience including those who have passing familiarity with the Myers-Briggs types." - Test Information Space

"IBM is testing how the smart grid can change consumer behavior with a project letting 1,000 households see real-time, detailed energy data." - Test Information Space

"Ixia: The only unified test platform for converged data centers" - Test Information Space

"AC TestWave is a cloud-based test management tool that can be  accessed instantly from a browser." - Test Information Space