"If you can stamp it, you want to stick with steel or aluminum, " Mark Verbrugge, director of General Motors' Materials and Processes Lab, told Design News magazine earlier this year.

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"The Unreal Engine 3-powered 'Epic Citadel' demonstration for Windows RT tablets implements the full DirectX 9 pipeline, with shaders and materials, all running beautifully on Tegra 3, " said Mark Rein, vice president of Epic Games.

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"One patch is about 25% brighter than the rest of the asteroid, and that's a very large difference from the materials you expect to find on the surface, " says Dr Mark Robinson, a Near imaging team member from Northwestern University.

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