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THURSDAY 30. OCTOBER 2014


HP’s Attempt to Blend Physical and Digital Work

A weird device uses 3-D sensors and a projector to reimagine how computers and humans interface with the physical world.HP did something strange in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City yesterday. It began by splashing blue strobe lights and repeating the word “awesome” enough times to suggest that it might have doubts about the merit of what it planned to unveil. It then introduced the...

Will a Breakthrough Solar Technology See the Light of Day?

A startup that might have a record-breaking solar cell is in danger of going out of business.The power unit is a rectangular slab about the size of a movie theater screen. It’s mounted on a thick steel post, and equipped with a tracking mechanism that continuously points it at the sun. The slab is made of over 100,000 small lenses and an equal number of even smaller solar cells, each the size of...


WEDNESDAY 29. OCTOBER 2014



TUESDAY 28. OCTOBER 2014


Blame the Weather for Last Year’s Rise in U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions

Carbon emissions have been trending downward, but not quickly enough to offset fluctuations in weather patterns.A colder winter was one of the main reasons carbon dioxide emissions from energy use rose in the United States by 2.5 percent in 2013, according to new data from the Energy Information Agency. Besides a small rise in the price of natural gas and slightly cheaper coal, the weather played...


MONDAY 27. OCTOBER 2014



SUNDAY 26. OCTOBER 2014


Materials Trick Might Help Move Computers Beyond Silicon

Ferroelectric materials could take computing beyond digital logic.After decades of repeated reinvention, the silicon transistor is starting to show its age, and the industry is hunting for alternatives. One option involves a new way of manipulating the properties of a material that the computer industry already uses. If it works, it would lead to computer processors that are not only more...


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THURSDAY 23. OCTOBER 2014


How Magic Leap’s Augmented Reality Works

Patent and trademark filings reveal the augmented reality technology that convinced Google and others to invest $542 million into Magic Leap.A Florida startup called Magic Leap announced Tuesday that it had received $542 million in funding from major Silicon Valley investors led by Google to develop hardware for a new kind of augmented reality hardware. The secretive startup has yet to publicly...