NASA Finds Lunar Spacecraft That Vanished 8 Years Ago

NASA Finds Lunar Spacecraft That Vanished 8 Years Ago

An anonymous reader shares a CNN report: It made history as India’s first unmanned lunar spacecraft. Then it vanished. Nearly a decade later, NASA has located two unmanned spacecraft orbiting the moon, including India’s Chandrayaan-1, which went quiet in 2009….

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Africa Gets Its Own Web Address

Africa Gets Its Own Web Address

Africa now has the unique web address .africa, equivalent to the more familiar .com, following its official launch by the African Union. From a report on BBC: AU commission chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma hailed its creation as the moment when…

Slashdot Asks: Are Password Rules Bullshit?

Slashdot Asks: Are Password Rules Bullshit?

Here’s what Jeff Atwood, a founder of Stack Overflow thinks: Password rules are bullshit. They don’t work. They heavily penalize your ideal audience, people that use real random password generators. Hey, guess what, that password randomly didn’t have a number…

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