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  Whereas it's traveled 11.6 billion miles to interstellar space, Voyager 1's software isn't as high-tech as you may believe. In detail, it has less than 40 KB of recollection. To put that in viewpoint, your 16 GB iPhone 5 has about 240,000 times the recollection of a Voyager spacecraft. NASA developed Voyager in the 1970s in a pre-computer era when scientists had to rely solely on pencil, paper, chalkboards and their own mathematical abilities. While that appears unimaginable in a time when we contain decades' worth of computational power in our pouches, Voyager 1 is one of NASA's most thriving missions, and project researcher Edward Stone states he wouldn't have changed a thing. "It's astonishing it's continued as long as it has," pebble notifies Mashable. "I don't know how we could have done things much better than they were finished. I mean things do wear out, and we've had to swap to some of our backup schemes, but luckily we ...

This is a question that many people have currently as robotic cars begin to become more of a reality in the modern world. Whether it's the one being developed by Google or all the other automatic vehicles that are being developed, it's a very exciting time to be alive if you love technology. Still, many people wonder if computers can replace humans as drivers and do a better job. Over at the MIT Technology Review, they've taken a closer look at this problem. Photo credits: Juhan Sonin Chris Urmson - from Google - made the claim earlier this year that Google's auto-driving Prius and Lexus cars are smoother than humans. He made the announcement at a robotics conference this summer in Santa Clara, California. Read More.....