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Dell Ventures managing director Jim Lussier, formerly of Norwest Venture Partners, has this to say about the venture arm of the Round Rock, Texas-based company and its storage ambitions in a blog post today.
FORBES: Dell Ventures Announces $60 Million Fund For Storage Startups
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Another used what little was left of his right arm to race up a rock-climbing wall.
NPR: Craig DeMartino: Winner in the Extremity Games
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Just before halting its investigations, the nuclear-powered rover used the drill at the end of its 7-foot-long robotic arm to bore into a rock near where it landed and analyze the powder.
NPR: Mars Rover Curiosity Stands Down After New Problem
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"I just got tired of being shot in the arm every week, " says Alisa Rock, 39, a Baltimore mom who raises money for nonprofits.
CNN: Finding relief as spring allergies rage on
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Held in a scoop on the rover's mechanical arm, the tablespoon of pulverized gray rock offers planetary scientists their first sample from the planet's interior, where it may have been sheltered from the harsh surface chemistry and ultra-violet radiation.
WSJ: Rover on Mars Extracts First Rock-Core Sample
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Curiosity will use a drill and scoop, which are located at the end of its robotic arm, to gather soil and powdered samples of rock interiors, then sieve and parcel out these samples into the rover's analytical laboratory instruments.
ENGADGET: NASA's Curiosity rover receives long-distance OTA update, 'brain transplant' on Mars
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Merely moving a few feet to poke a rock could take three days, with the rover snapping pictures of its arm from every angle.
NEWYORKER: The Martian Chroniclers
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Over the weekend, Spirit drilled its first artificial hole in a rock - the football-sized Adirondack - and took readings from it using the science instruments on its robotic arm.
BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | Rover sets Mars distance record
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Stand-alone retail banks, such as Britain's Northern Rock and America's Wachovia, failed during the financial crisis, after all, when an investment-banking arm might have pulled them through.
ECONOMIST: Banking reforms