NASA engineers appear to have found a way to restore a balky coolant pump on the International Space Station that may allow a station resupply mission to launch this week, as planned. The alternative is to delay the launch to allow two ISS crew members to conduct two or three emergency spacewalks starting this weekend to replace the faulty pump. Spare pumps are stored on the space station's truss – scaffolding the length of a football field. The truss supports the station's solar panels, radiators for station cooling, and other utilities, including two external cooling loops that transfer heat to the radiators. The cooling-system malfunction on the space station occurred Dec. 11.

If something can connect to a network, it can be hacked. Computers and phones are still popular targets, but increasingly so are cars, home security systems, TVs and even oil refineries. That was the message at this year's Black Hat and DefCon computer security conferences, which took place last week in Las Vegas. The annual conferences draw a mix of computer researchers and hackers who present the latest bugs and vulnerabilities they've discovered. These are some of the more popular targets covered at this year's conferences.

Whether we are commuting to work, flying to business meetings or watching as human explorers venture out into space, human activity is relentless. In a world that is constantly in motion, what does the future hold? Will you be able to spend a week aboard a space hotel as inexpensively as you would take a cruise? Will you be able to fly from Tokyo to New York in less than three hours? These are some of the questions that CNN Future Summit: World in Motion will explore when it airs on the CNN International network.

Top 10 predictions In the 21st century, I bet the following 10 things happening: 1) Man/Women walking on Mars. As is currently happening in India and southeast Asia and with the advent of cheap labor and nearly free energy (Africa's desert is a prime location for solar power). It will surely attract hefty amounts of foreign investment 4) Genetic and Stem Cell research collide and make discovery's that lead to cures for almost all genetic disorders. It'll be like INTERPOL on steriods and very little red tape. Their capabilities powers will broaden with every terrorist attack.

They sniff, wag their tails, fetch and run in packs. But no one minds if these canines stick their noses into some pretty dirty stuff. That's because they are robotic dogs, modified by engineering students at Yale University to sniff out toxic materials. Equipped with just about everything but a wet nose, the plastic and metallic-skinned robots have spurred toxic search projects in the United States, Europe and Australia. They are the brainchild of Natalie Jeremijenko, a lecturer in engineering at Yale and self-described technoartist.

Francesco Calabrò, Chief Technology Officer/ Capability Manager of Selex ES, a subsidiary of Finmeccanica, Italy's second largest conglomorate, will join CCLS beginning in May for an extended 2 year assignment managing our joint Micro and Smart Electric Grid efforts. I am customer service-oriented, and accustomed to dealing with clients' needs."

The origins of robotics go back to the automata invented by ancient civilisations. The word robot entered our vocabulary only in 1920 with Czech writer Karel Čapek's play R.U.R (Rossum's Universal Robots). Over the past 20 years robots have been developed to work in settings that range from manufacturing industry to space. At Cambridge University, robotics is a rapidly developing field within many departments, from theoretical physics and computing to engineering and medical science. Lord Martin Rees is Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge. He holds the honorary title of Astronomer Royal.

The world's oldest technology magazine is the MIT Technology Review. Published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 2011 it produced a special supplement of original science fiction stories written by top writers from the genre. The Review says its normal mission is to identify important new technologies, and decipher the practical impact they will have on our lives. The sci-fi edition - with contributors such as Cory Doctorow and Elizabeth Bear - was an attempt to do that in an unusual way. The magazine called this "hard" sci-fi.

EXPERT SYSTEMS Computers as sages by Howard Rheingold Howard Rheingold is the author of Software Odyssey and co-author of Higher Creativity. Should you ever want to drill for oil, diagnose a disease or synthesize a new molecule, you can ask Prospector, MYCIN or Dendral for some sage advice. They are certified experts in their respective fields. They are also computer programs. We all depend on expert assistance-from doctors, attorneys, automobile mechanics, computer repairmen.

Building an optimized schedule for upstream oil and gas operations is not an easy task. Getting equipment to the right place at the right time, with all the right people, across a number of pads spread over multiple geographic areas, make scheduling a complex challenge. Changing business goals make it even more challenging. Actenum's upstream schedule and optimization software turns operations scheduling from a painstaking manual task into a strategic advantage. Well and asset managers can immediately understand the impact on goals such as costs and production when moving equipment, removing rigs, adding crews, and making other resource decisions .