Climate Crisis Tech: Priority Number One
We must take action on the climate emergency in many ways. But huge tech innovation is emerging from both large and small companies. We’ve got to apply it right away. It’s become a top priority...
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Satellites Will Power Google’s Latest Moonshot Project
Mark Zuckerberg isn’t the only tech titan aiming to make the Net truly global. Google’s ambition to help bring Internet access to everyone in the world may soon be taking form. The search giant reportedly...
U.S. Intelligence Community Supports Sharper Satellite Images
In the increasingly competitive business of satellite imaging, Colorado-based DigitalGlobe is getting a welcome boost from some powerful friends. U.S. government agencies, particularly those in the intelligence sector, have traditionally worried that allowing private companies...
Nanosatellites Will Give Everyone Access to Space
In the future, everyone on Earth will have ubiquitous access to outer space. That might seem to be a bold statement or to border on science fiction, yet a glance back in time at the...
Watching Walmart Parking Lots from Space: New Apps for Satellites
Here's a new barometer for measuring a technology's disruptive potential: "If there's not a capacity to exploit something for evil, it's probably not that revolutionary." That's one way 27-year-old Skybox Imaging co-founder Julian Mann explains...
Need an Elevated View? Rent Your Own Orbiting Satellite
While space travel remains exclusive to professional astronauts and the superwealthy, operating your own robot in space is close to becoming an affordable reality for average Earthlings. NanoSatisfi, a Kickstarter-funded startup, is building open-source nanosatellites...
