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(http://www.dailygalaxy.com)
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over 4 years ago
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Presidential Science Adviser John Holdren recently outlined options for geohacking, forcibly reconfiguring parts of the planet's ecology. Since this is a country where you can't set up a windfarm without someone opposing it this set off a storm o...
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(http://www.techcrunch.com)
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over 4 years ago
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"Facebook is trying to show you an up-to-date look at what your friends are doing both on Facebook and around the web. But it’s not actually live — it’s static. You need to refresh the feed to get more information. FriendFeed, on the other ha...
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(http://www.joystiq.com)
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over 4 years ago
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The editorial team for Edge-Online in the US has quit, in response to what former Editor-in-Chief Colin Campbell calls "a gumbo of old media thinking, rampant cost-cutting and ego-driven control mechanisms." Campbell explains on his new ...
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(http://www.esquire.com)
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over 4 years ago
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If the Iraqi and Afghan insurgents — and, now, the Somali pirates — have taught us anything, it's that the era of the "big war" is behind us. No one gets that more than our Secretary of Defense, argues a top global-security expert, and t...
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(http://www.fastcompany.com)
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over 4 years ago
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Microsoft founder Bill Gates appears as a principal applicant on a patent published last week by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, but the concept in question isn't computer-based; it's an electromagnetic combustion engine that may eliminate t...
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(http://ecoworldly.com)
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over 4 years ago
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According to a newly released draft of a report by the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), Spain now leads the world in added photovoltaic capacity.
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(http://www.fastcompany.com)
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over 4 years ago
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Every day, we recognize hundreds of faces without giving it a second thought, but unlocking exactly how humans pull off that seemingly simple feat has bedeviled researchers, who have been tantalized by the wealth of applications that the science p...
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(http://blogs.zdnet.com)
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over 4 years ago
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IBM on Tuesday unveiled a new services unit focused on business analytics and optimization and stumped for the need to use data to make better predictions.
At an event in its Hawthorne, NY research facility, Big Blue detailed plans to launch i...
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(http://www.sciencedaily.com)
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over 4 years ago
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Stem cells collected from human corneas restore transparency and don't trigger a rejection response when injected into eyes that are scarred and hazy, according to experiments conducted in mice by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School...
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(http://www.sciam.com)
- scanned by: Jeff Hilford
over 4 years ago
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By 2050 robot "brains" based on computers that execute 100 trillion instructions per second will start rivaling human intelligence
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(http://edition.cnn.com)
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over 4 years ago
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Josef Woodman, author of Patients Beyond Borders, a guide to medical tourism, told CNN that two to three million people travel outside their home country for treatment each year
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(http://edition.cnn.com)
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over 4 years ago
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Rapid-fire TV news bulletins or getting updates via social-networking tools such as Twitter could numb our sense of morality and make us indifferent to human suffering, scientists say.
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