“KITT, I need you buddy!” Not too long ago it was this mythical catchphrase that Michael Knight used to summon his multipurpose car in the blockbuster series Knight Rider.…
Welcome to future forms of travel
A lunar lander on GMV’s site
This lunar descent module has landed on our Tres Cantos site: The origins of this real-sized lunar-lander mockup go back to 2010, when the Barcelona Moon Team entered the Google Lunar X Prize (brokered by the NGO “X Price Foundation”).…
The race is on
The digital transformation is here to stay; there is no going back now. Reports like the one brought out recently by IDC Research confirm that two thirds of the presidents of IBEX 35 companies regard it as a top-priority corporate…
The future of streaming technologies: Apache Flink
Historically, most firms generating a large amount of data had no choice but to discard it, since storing it was costly and processing it inconceivable. This situation changed with the advent of the first Big Data storage technologies like Hadoop…
NASA to simulate in Peru the growing of potatoes on Mars
Are Peru’s potatoes made of the right stuff? That’s the question NASA scientists will be asking in March, when a selection of tubers will be undergoing tests to find out whether they’re fit to grow on Mars. NASA, the US…