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All in a day's work at the New York Auto Show Innovations in taxis are few and far between. Moto-Meter, a portable taxi meter originally intended for moto-taxis, is
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All in a day's work at the New York Auto Show Innovations in taxis are few and far between. Moto-Meter, a portable taxi meter originally intended for moto-taxis, is
Chemists say exotic clusters of boron atoms should behave like rotary Wankel engines when bathed in circularly polarised light One of the great discoveries of biology is that the engines of life are molecular motors--tiny machines that create, transport and assemble all living things. ...
THURSDAY 12. APRIL 2012
Members of the social network will be able to download more of what they put into the site The more than 845 million users of Facebook are to be allowed to download more of the data they have put into the social network....
The isolated nation's Launch Center appears to be deliberately designed to echo the heyday of the space age. Rocket scientists sit behind rows of bulky grey consoles, intently monitoring readouts--it could be an iconic image from the Apollo era, but in fact it's the scene shown in recent pictures from North Korea's launch control center outside Pyongynag. Sometime between now and...
But does it really matter where clean energy is developed and deployed? Last year the United States attracted more private investment in clean energy than any other country, according to a report released today by the Pew Charitable Trusts,...
It's not as if the Kindle and its store aren't also vulnerable to disruption.
Six ideas for where Mark Zuckerberg might put his money. A little over a year ago, I got an email from a college friend, telling me about her boyfriend’s startup. He and some friends had a made an app that let you take pictures, apply filters to them, and share them with friends. “That’s kind of boring,” I thought. I decided not to write about it....
Logic gates that exploit the swarming behaviour of soldier crabs have been built and tested in Japan One of the hot topics in computer science is the study of unconventional forms of computation. ...
A new scooter rental service relies on its users' smart phones to serve as both the key and the dashboard. If you live in a major city and don't own a car, you could turn to biking, public transportation, or the occasional Zipcar rental to get around. Soon, you may be able to add another set of wheels to that list: smart-phone enhanced electric scooters....
Oncologist and theoretician Jacob Scott argues that creative minds are weeded out by medical school admissions panels. Admissions panels have unforgiving standards for new medical students. That scares...
WEDNESDAY 11. APRIL 2012
The unexpected connection between carrier pricing schemes and payday loans. The most active senders and receivers of texts are nonwhite, earn incomes below $30,000, and do not have a high school education,...
Apple’s plans to take a bigger bite of the e-book market hit a snag today when the U.S. Department of Justice
Fast-growing social curation site
Glitch on much-hyped Nokia model will get you $100 back from your $99.99 investment. Whoops.
Wavii gives summaries of events—from celebrity breakups to business news—in a Facebook-style feed tuned to what a user likes. It's as if the world's celebrities, politicians, and companies were your Facebook friends. News aggregation website...
TUESDAY 10. APRIL 2012
Iran could certainly cut off its global Internet connections. But whether it ever would is a question of politics and economics. Will Iran shutting down global Internet connections by August--as has...
Broadcom executives think they have a superior solution. Skyhook Wireless provides a software layer that
The "StudyBook" may be a tad too pricey. Various outlets are reporting that Intel has plans to follow up its Classmate PC with a tablet computer aimed at emerging markets like China and Brazil. The Register...
The journalist who busted Mike Daisey steps inside the factory. Once upon a time, an actor named Mike Daisey wrote and performed a wildly successful monologue about Foxconn, the factory where your iPad (and much else) is made. Then, that actor got busted, by a journalist named Rob Schmitz, for including falsehoods in his monologue. (I wrote all about it...
Dark matter must collide with human tissue and physicists have now calculated how often. The answer? More often than you might expect One of the great challenges in cosmology is understanding the nature of the universe's so-called missing mass....
Tumor genome sequences and mouse “avatars” may help Mayo Clinic researchers identify the best chemotherapy for individual breast cancer patients in a new study dubbed
The industry is on a mission to make you like the ads that know which apps you're using. Few smart-phone users realize it, but mobile-ad companies track them as they use many free apps. They do this in order to fine-tune the ads the users see. But now that Apple has started to restrict a common way of tracking users, ad companies are scrambling for alternatives, and hoping to "teach"...
MONDAY 9. APRIL 2012
The move suggests that Facebook is willing to spend large sums to remain on top. Mark Zuckerberg made a rare
The chip achieves unprecedented accuracy by processing information from many different sensors. Broadcom has just rolled out a chip for smart phones that promises to indicate location ultra-precisely, possibly within a few centimeters, vertically and horizontally, indoors and out....
FRIDAY 6. APRIL 2012
Mark Changizi, a neurobiologist and the author of The Vision Revolution, discusses Google's augmented-reality glasses.