Google backs private Moon landing
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Google is backing private attempts to put a rover on the Moon with a $30m prize pot.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday gave its approval for Google to proceed with its initial public offering (IPO).
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Search giant, which has endured past criticism from privacy advocates for its Web cookie policies, backs $5,000 prize for best YouTube video demystifying the tiny text files.
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Google Inc., the world's biggest Internet search engine, plans to fund development of technology for hybrid and electric cars. It also switched on a solar-panel installation at its headquarters.
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A plan for the first British-led mission  to the Moon won the backing of an Anglo-American space  committee on Friday.
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Planet information NASA has called on the omnipresence of Google to help it manage the profluence of data it expects to splurge forth from its Moon and Mars missions.â¦
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Also: Congress OKs private spaceflight bill. [News.com Extra]
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Google said Thursday that it would award a $20 million prize to the first group able to safely land a robotic rover on the moon and transfer back a gigabyte of video and data successfully to Earth.
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Google is backing a fledgling biotech firm started by the bride of the world-renowned Internet search engine&#39;s co-founder Sergey Brin.
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British billionaire Richard Branson said  on Wednesday he was hoping to trace missing U.S. adventurer  Steve Fossett through a satellite mapping service offered by  Internet data provider Google.
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Google Inc , the world's  largest Internet company, will propose at a meeting of  international policymakers in France on Friday that national  regulators agree on a basic set of global privacy protections.
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MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- Google Inc. and NASA A
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(InfoWorld) - Google and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have signed a formal collaboration agreement that calls for Google to help make NASA information readily accessible on the Web. Google and NASA announced on Monday the signing of their Space Act Agreement, which calls for them to collaborate on making it easy for people to find weather visualization and forecasting data, see high-resolution 3-D maps of the moon and Mars and track, in real time, the International Space Station and the space shuttle. In short, the partnership seeks to make NASA's work "accessible to everyone," Google and NASA said in a statement. Although NASA has collected massive amounts of information about Earth and the universe, this information is scattered and hard to find and is difficult for the average person to understand, they said. The two organizations will also tackle what they consider to be challenging technical problems in areas like large-scale data management, massively distributed computing and user interfaces. In September of last year,Â Google and NASA signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU)Â to collaborate on solving technical problems. That MOU also called for Google to develop up to 1 million square feet within the NASA Research Park at Moffett Field. NASA and Google also are finalizing details for additional collaborations in areas like research, products, facilities and education. The organizations will hold a press conference pn Monday afternoon to offer more information about their partnership.
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LOS ANGELES - Google Inc. is bankrolling a $30 million space flight contest for private companies to safely land a robotic rover on the moon and beam back a gigabyte of images and video to Earth.
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MOJAVE, California -- SpaceShipOne made history Monday and triumphed in the international Ansari X Prize race to launch the first privately built spacecraft.
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A U.S. judge ruled that Google  Inc.'s  3D modeling software, which gives Web users an  astronaut's view of the earth and allows them to zoom down to  street level, does not infringe the patent of a rival.
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By Michael LiedtkeSAN FRANCISCO, Associated Press  INTERNET search leader Google Inc.