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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg scans a QR code on a building permit at a press conference announcing the city's adoption of the technology to provide New Yorkers with instant access to information related to buildings and construction sites.

This colorful picture is a mosaic of the Lagoon nebula taken by NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE

Boeing today announced that it has completed the post-launch testing and on-orbit handover of the first LightSquared satellite and Space-Based Network (SBN). The satellite system has been accepted by LightSquared and is ready to begin service.

False-color scanning electron microscopy image of a programmable nanowire nanoprocessor superimposed on a schematic nanoprocessor circuit architecture.

Reports are swirling around that Apple has finally sent its iPad 2 to production. Assuming that’s true, it’s quite possible that the company will make its announcement of the iPad 2 in the near future, and then sell it to consumers around the world soon after that.

Northwestern University researchers fabricated a micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) to test their piezoelectric nanowires

The boy and other elements were copied and pasted from a different image using new stereoscopic editing technology

Artist rendering of Stardust-NExT spacecraft. Image credit: NASA/JPL

This artist’s concept shows NASA's Jupiter Europa Orbiter which will carry a complement of 11 instruments to explore Europa and the Jupiter System. The spacecraft is part of the joint NASA-ESA Europa Jupiter System Mission (EJSM).

Three images of the same location taken at different times on Mars show seasonal activity causing sand avalanches and ripple changes on a Martian dune. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona