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(http://www.technologyreview.com)
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over 3 years ago
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Last month Danish wind turbine company Vestas and U.K. defense contractor QinetiQ demonstrated the first "stealth" wind-turbine blade--their solution to the aviation radar interference problem holding up the installation of gigawatts-wor...
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(http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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over 4 years ago
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"Bill Watkins, the outspoken former chief executive of Seagate, wants to make a thinner iPod. The Silicon Valley veteran has joined the board of Vertical Circuits, a start-up that has come up with a technique for cramming large amounts of fla...
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(http://www.avc.com)
- scanned by: Alvis Brigis
over 4 years ago
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Claire Cain Miller has a story in today's NY Times about Second Market, a NYC based company that makes markets in illiquid securities. She reports that they will shortly be launching a marketplace for private company stock.
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(http://www.montrealgazette.com)
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over 4 years ago
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Soon your computer and electronic gadgets could be much smaller, faster, cheaper, more reliable and even greener thanks to a new form of computer memory technology called racetrack.
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(http://www.foresight.org)
- scanned by: Alvis Brigis
over 4 years ago
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Using a magnetic bead to slowly pull a DNA molecule through a solid-sate nanopore looks promising as the basis for a very fast and efficient nanotech DNA sequencing method. If this method is perfected (no DNA sequence obtained by this method has b...
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(http://www.telegraph.co.uk)
- scanned by: Jeff Hilford
over 4 years ago
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Four patients have had holes in their bones patched up using their own stem cells in a pioneering treatment.
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(http://www.businessinsider.com)
- scanned by: Alvis Brigis
over 4 years ago
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How? By creating business Twitter pages. Just like Facebook, where the page does not have as much functionality as a real Facebook but simply serves the purpose of people being able to connect and talk about a subject. Twitter can simply buy the d...
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(http://www.macrumors.com)
- scanned by: Alvis Brigis
over 4 years ago
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Apple has been conducting ongoing research into how to further improve their mobile device interfaces as evidenced by a couple of patent applications published over the past couple of weeks. Two different patent applications reveal a couple of dif...
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(http://www.newscientist.com)
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over 4 years ago
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While vehicle drivers and their passengers are cocooned in a crash, people hit by a car have no such protection. Now that could change, thanks to a variety of systems that when built into a vehicle will improve a pedestrian's chances.
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(http://dsc.discovery.com)
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over 4 years ago
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Astronauts' meals have come a long way from the freeze-dried powders and semi-liquid pastes of decades ago: now U.S. scientists want to grow vegetables in mini-greenhouses on the moon.
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(http://www.newscientist.com)
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over 4 years ago
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Here's an ingenious idea: When pinged by a tone through a phone, otoacoustic emissions (OAEs), the ear-generated sounds emanate from within the spiral-shaped cochlea in the inner ear, may be distinct enough to serve as biometric passwords, bypassi...
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