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China’s Innovation Success Depends on Political Changes

If China’s new leadership wants an innovation-based economy, it will have to begin to make the changes needed for robust science and technology development.Since 1978, the Chinese economy has seen phenomenal growth. While that’s not in dispute, the reason why China has managed to grow so fast and whether it can maintain that growth is far less clear. The consensus view among China scholars is...

Xerox Designs System to Reduce Busywork for Nurses

The system automatically pulls up patient files and lets nurses use mobile devices to document work.Nurses spend lots of time doing what seems like busywork—logging into computers, pulling up patient files, entering details of what they did, and coordinating their duties with others. Researchers at Xerox are developing what they call the Digital Nurse Assistant to automate and simplify some of...


TUESDAY 13. NOVEMBER 2012


More Empathy for Windows Users

Windows 8 launches to mixed reviews and the guy who oversaw it steps down.Now that Steven Sinofsky, the leader of Microsoft's Windows division, is stepping down, how will the development of the operating system change at this crucial time for the company and its role in the marketplace? Microsoft investors seem to have been spooked by the implications. But this piece from AllThingsD points out...

Whither the Graphing Calculator?

Can the TI-84 stand up in the era of iOS and Android?With the rapid rise and ubiquity of handheld computing devices, I sometimes have to remind myself that I’ve always had handheld computing devices of one sort or another, for as long as I can remember. Some of my earliest memories are of a handheld Nintendo game called Mario’s Cement Factory, released the year of my birth. Growing up, I used...

Five Things the Petraeus Affair Teaches Us About Online Surveillance

The FBI methods used to reveal the CIA director's affair are relevant to all Web usersWhen the FBI started investigating harassing emails sent to a resident of Tampa Bay that organized parties for a local Air Force base, it soon became a much broader investigation that led to the uncovering of an affair between CIA director David Petraeus and his biographer Paula Broadwell. Now reports of how the...

IEA Says U.S. Oil Production Will Exceed Saudi Arabia's

An International Energy Agency report says shale gas and oil technology is changing the energy map.Technology for extracting previously inaccessible oil and gas resources in the United States, along with increases in biofuels production and improved vehicle efficiency, could lead to a situation where the United States produces as much energy as it uses by 2035, according to the recently released...

Why Microsoft May Be Making a Smartphone for China

Even if it alienates existing hardware partners, the Chinese market is too big, and fast-growing, to ignore.The latest reports from Asia have resurrected a popular rumor: that Microsoft is planning to launch its own Windows Phone smart phone and initially sell it in China, where smart-phone use is exploding. However, with a delicate ecosystem of hardware partners to balance, and huge competition...

Bright LED Bulbs Arrive At Last

Osram Sylvania LED bulb shows that lighting manufacturers can finally match other technologies on brightness.Osram Sylvania this week is shipping an LED light bulb that gives off as much light as a 100-watt incandescent, a sign that lighting manufacturers have successfully tackled the technical challenge of making bright LED bulbs.

Cellular Data Network for Inanimate Objects Goes Live in France

A startup hopes to connect millions of low-power sensors worldwide to the Internet, making everything—from power grids to home appliances—smarter.All of the apps, movies, and games consumed on tablets and phones are only available because cellular networks deployed wireless technology to connect people to the Internet wherever they are. French startup SigFox thinks it can help usher in a...


MONDAY 12. NOVEMBER 2012


ABB Advance Makes Renewable-Energy Supergrids Practical

A high-power circuit breaker makes it possible to create highly efficient DC power grids.ABB, the large power and automation company, has developed technology that could provide an efficient way to transmit power from widely distributed solar panels, wind turbines, and other sources of renewable energy. The new technology is a fast and efficient circuit breaker for high-voltage direct-current (DC)...

Online Courses Put Pressure on Third-World Universities

How a teacher in El Salvador became an advocate of massive open online courses, and why hardly anyone listens to him yet.When prominent U.S. universities began offering free college classes over the Web this year, more than half of the students who signed up were from outside the United States. Consider the story of one of them: Carlos Martinez, a professor of electrical engineering at the...

Online Courses Put Pressure on Universities in Poorer Nations

How a teacher in El Salvador became an advocate of massive open online courses, and why hardly anyone listens to him yet.When prominent U.S. universities began offering free college classes over the Web this year, more than half of the students who signed up were from outside the United States. Consider the story of one of them: Carlos Martinez, a professor of electrical engineering at the...


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