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Moon lander digs up major data not collected since Apollo astronauts

Mashable Tech

But all that has changed since Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace successfully landed Blue Ghost on the moon on March 2. Credit: Firefly Aerospace LISTER, mounted below Blue Ghost’s lower deck, measures the flow of heat from the moon's interior with a sophisticated pneumatic drill, developed by Texas Tech and Honeybee Robotics.

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Bush School Center for Nonprofits to Host Bank of America Program on Volunteerism

NonProfit PRO

The Center for Nonprofits & Philanthropy at Texas A&M University's Bush School of Government & Public Service will host the annual Bank of America Program on Volunteerism on April 19, 2023.

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3-day outbreak of severe weather leaves hundreds displaced in U.S. South and Midwest

Fast Company Tech

While conditions over the weekend allowed crews to get a handle on most wildfires across Texas and Oklahoma, forecasters at the National Weather Service said extremely critical fire weather conditions were expected Tuesday over an area spanning from southeastern New Mexico through the Texas Panhandle and into western Oklahoma.

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The 10 most innovative augmented and virtual reality companies of 2025

Fast Company Tech

Texas A&M University has brought AR/VR production into its celebrated Visualization program , letting students learn to build state-of-the-art virtual productions before they leave college. In addition, the university debuted a new minor in virtual production.

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Lunar Lander Starts Drilling Into the Moon, Sparks Flying

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The probe was jointly developed by researchers from Texas Tech University and the California-based startup Honeybee Robotics under NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. They're hoping to drill down to a depth of just shy of ten feet into the dusty regolith, as NASA explained in a December blog post.

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Blackbaud Headed to SXSWi 2011

NetWits

With more than eight years of experience in the nonprofit arena, he has worked with a diverse group of organizations including LIVESTRONG, United Methodist Church, American Heart Association, Family Life, Darkness to Light, University of Richmond, Big Brother Big Sisters, ChildFund Int’l, and more. Follow Frank on Twitter. You coming?

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Guatemalan National Police Archive Goes Online

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Just last month, the University of Texas at Austin made a large portion of the Archive available to the public unveiling a digital repository that contains 12 million of these critical records. You can read about Benetech’s findings from the Archive here and here.

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