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Tweet China has become the first country to land a spacecraft on the far-side of the Moon. In order to communicate with Earth, a satellite is relaying data from Chang’e 4, back to Earth. Read more… Neowin

Tweet BlackBerry’s infotainment and security software will now be incorporated into the Jaguar Land Rover vehicles as part of a licensing agreement between the Canadian firm and Tata Motors. Read more… Neowin

Tweet NASA has kicked off its “Summer of Mars” event at the Kennedy Space Center, starting with a concept manned Mars vehicle. Unfortunately, the Hollywood-esque vehicle will never land on Mars. Read more… Neowin

Tweet More than 2 million lines of software code drove NASA’s successful Rover Curiosity landing on Mars. And, for the last two years, every single line was analyzed and scrubbed by static analysis products from Coverity, Grammatech, Semmle, and Uno. Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory used all of the aforementioned products plus a GCC compiler and a homegrown tool to comb through the software, looking for errors or possible errors. One of the…

Tweet Anyone excited to watch NASA’s Mars rover, called Curiosity, land on the surface of the red planet on Sunday night can all but rest assured that too much demand won’t kill the stream. NASA teamed with an application-testing specialist called SOASTA to ensure the world can keep watching even if demand spikes or servers fail, proving a single implementation of its application stack can handle 25 Gigabits per second…