 Rubber 'snake' could help wave power get a bite of the energy market July 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 33 vote(s)
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A device consisting of a giant rubber tube may hold the key to producing affordable electricity from the energy in sea waves. | |
Breakthrough in efficiency for dye-sensitized solar cells June 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 44 vote(s)
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In a paper published in the journal Nature Materials, EPFL professor Michael Graetzel, Shaik Zakeeruddin and colleagues from the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have achieved ... | |
 Solution to high energy costs could lie underground July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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Sandia National Laboratories researcher Georgianne Peek thinks a possible solution to high energy costs lies underground. And it’s not coal or oil. It’s compressed air energy storage (CAES). | |
AP Interview: Ex-Intel head pushes electric cars June 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 29 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Former Intel Corp. Chairman Andy Grove has a knack for sensing when circumstances should force changes at a company or an industry - and how to respond. | |
 Simple insulation could combat heat, cold and noise July 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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Around the world, an estimated one billion people--mostly in rural villages and the shanty towns surrounding developing-world cities--live in houses whose roofs are nothing more than thin sheets of corrugated ... | |
Internet addressing agency loses its own addresses July 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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(AP) -- This doesn't sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet's addresses recently lost track of its own. | |
 Microsoft to stop selling Windows XP on Monday June 30, 2008 | User rating: 2.2 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. is scheduled to stop selling its Windows XP operating system to retailers and major computer makers Monday, despite protests from a slice of PC users who don't want to be forced into ... | |
 Study says many dial-up users don't want broadband July 03, 2008 | User rating: 2.4 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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(AP) -- A new study suggests that attitude rather than availability may be the key reason why more Americans don't have high-speed Internet access. | |
 Man versus machine poker re-match July 01, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Polaris, the University of Alberta poker playing computer program, is heading to Las Vegas for a re-match against humans. | |
 Hydrogen cars commercially unavailable until 2020: Mazda June 30, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Hydrogen-powered cars will not be commercially available on a large scale before 2020, a senior official from Japanese auto maker Mazda said Monday in Spain at an international oil conference. | |
 Court orders YouTube to give Viacom video logs July 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which ... | |
Citibank ATM breach reveals PIN security problems July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Hackers broke into Citibank's network of ATMs inside 7-Eleven stores this year and stole customers' PIN codes, according to recent court filings that revealed a disturbing security hole in the most sensitive part ... | |
Keeping a landline number on your cell phone July 01, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Q: I want to get rid of my landline phone service and go all wireless, but I don't want to lose my home phone number. Can I transfer it to my cell phone? | |
Study shows how using mental strategies can alter the brain's reward circuitry June 29, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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The cognitive strategies humans use to regulate emotions can determine both neurological and physiological responses to potential rewards, a team of New York University and Rutgers University neuroscientists has discovered. ... | |
Case dropped against parents who put baby on eBay July 03, 2008 | User rating: 2.2 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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(AP) -- A baby boy removed from his parents' custody after they offered to sell him on eBay for just a euro - $1.59 - as a joke is back at home, a prosecutor said Thursday. | |
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