7:14 PM
Detailed analysis by NASA discovered that there is a lot more water on the moon than previously believed (50% more than NASA had estimated)...the moon apparently has *twice* the water concentration than the Sahara Desert has:
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052702303339504575566194097878552-lMyQjAxMTAwMDIwMTEyNDEyWj.html
Brown University researchers have discovered that the soil below the surface at the moon's poles has water, carbon dioxide, ammonia, free sodium, and silver:
http://news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2010/10/lcross
Carnegie Mellon computer scientists created an innovated and concise algorithm that can solve symmetric diagonally dominant (SDD) systems that are critical to applications such as image processing, logistics, and scheduling problems. The systems of linear equations with a billion variables can be solved by a desktop computer in just a few seconds:
http://www.cmu.edu/news/archive/2010/October/oct21_speedyalgorithm.shtml
The FCC says that the spectrum it plans to auction by 2014 could by worth up to $120 billion. They plan to release 300 MHz of spectrum within 5 years and 500 MHz within 10 years to meet rising mobile data demands. The FCC projects data traffic to be 35x greater than 2009 levels by 2014. The FCC plans to release 120 MHz of spectrum that belongs to TV broadcasters soon...the TV broadcasters don't like that plan. The government raised $19 billion when it auctioned 100 MHz of spectrum at 700 MHz...$120 billion is quite a jump:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/fcc-value-unleashing-wireless-spetcrum-could-be-120b/2010-10-21