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NASA’s Nuclear-Powered Mars Rover Curiosity Essentially Has The Same Brain As A Bondi Blue iMac G3

Here’s an interesting little factoid for you. The Curiosity rover — which landed last night on Mars, remote controlled by a team of NASA scientists armed with MacBook Pros — runs on a RAD750 radiation-hardened single board computer. This computer, in turn, is based on the IBM PowerPC 750 CPU, which Intel first introduce on [...]Related StoriesApple Shows Off iAd With New Profile Of Land Rover CampaignSamsung May Sell More Units, But Apple Makes More Profit [Report]Everything You Need To Know About The Apple Vs. Samsung Trial [Day Four]Samsung Memo Compares Own Products To iPhone – The Difference Between Heaven And EarthApple Responds To Journalist Victim of “Epic” AppleID Hack

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