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US publishing group Hearst Corp. plans to launch a wireless electronic reader for magazines and newspapers similar to Amazon’s Kindle for books, Fortune reporte.

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Moviegoers, adjust your eyeglasses for what Hollywood gamblers bet is the next revolution in film: digital 3-D.

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What separates Ireland from Iceland? According to a local joke, the letter C. According to Morgan Kelly, about six months.

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The prime minister sets out plans to increase the number of pupils taking science subjects – and to re-train specialist teachers.

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The budget proposals seek to reverse the rapid increase in economic inequality over the last 30 years.

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While most of the world is grappling with a crippling financial crisis and plumbing the depths of a recession, optimism reigns in India.

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President Barack Obama’s budget aims to foster generic competition for costly biotech drugs used to treat cancer and other intractable ailments.

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Southeast Asia economists predict that one hallmark of the downturn will be the exodus of workers back to the family farm.

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The MoD showcases its latest gadget.

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British doctors are debating whether it is ethical to start clinical trials to allow voice box transplantation.

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Shrinking water supplies, partly caused by global warming, are raising costs for water-dependent industries, an alliance of investor and environmental groups said.

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Almost 90,000 food crop seeds from around the world arrive at a "doomsday vault" in the Arctic, as it marks its first anniversary.

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Conservationists in Cyprus are in a race against time to save the island’s forests from being wiped out by drought and fire.

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A funny thing has happened on the way to globalization: Innovation now trickles up from emerging to advanced economies. And it may be the way of the future. We know how innovation works. We …

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Climate scientists have produced a blunt assessment of the impact of global warming on the US, warning of droughts that could reduce the south-west to a wasteland and heatwaves that could make life impossible …

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Anybody who doubts that the global economy is facing its most serious downturn since the 1930s should take a look at the latest trade figures from Japan.

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Some of the oldest words in the English and other Indo-European languages have been identified, scientists believe.

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Greg Garrett, Episcopal lay preacher and Baylor University professor, admits he has an addiction that threatens his walk with his God: Facebook.

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Nineteen major banks worth more than $100 billion will face a "stress test" to judge whether they have enough capital to survive another drop in housing prices or an increase in unemployment rates.

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National governments now must decide, possibly before the summer, whether to support a technology that proponents say could reduce food prices but that offends many voters in countries like France and Poland, where opposition …

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Compost bug could spawn green alternative to petro.

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Latvia has been wracked by demonstrations in recent weeks over the nation’s imperiled economy. Public discontent pushed Prime Minister Ivars Godmanis to hand in his resignation last week.

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Countries throughout Europe have offered billions of euros to support carmakers as sales dry up, but so far there has been little coordination on how the funds should be distributed.

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The competitive edge of the U.S. economy has eroded sharply over the past decade, according to a new study by a nonpartisan research group.

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Small U.S. clothiers are pulling production back home – and saving money.

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Radical plans to clean up pollution from the UK’s coal plants have been drawn up by the government amid growing international pressure to curb emissions that cause climate change. The climate secretary, Ed Miliband, …

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It is hard to think of any job-hunting skills that Alexis Lovell lacks. As a recruiter for Silicon Valley technology companies, and before that, for retailers, she has advised job candidates on rÃÆ’©sumÃÆ’© preparation, …

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The U.S. ranks sixth among 40 countries and regions for innovation, a non-partisan group noted in a report.

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Scientists from Queen Mary, University of London have discovered that an ancient system of communication found in primitive bacteria, may also explain how plants and algae control the process of photosynthesis.

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A $10 billion bailout from its neighbor, Abu Dhabi, threatens to cost Dubai its autonomy and the free-wheeling economic system that helped establish it as the Middle East’s main business hub.

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Scientists discover a gene that may enable them to grow replacement teeth in the laboratory.

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Speakers at last week`s AAAS meeting presented abundant evidence that tropical rainforest destruction has accelerated in recent years, at least in part because of the worldwide push to produce more biofuels.

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Traditionally, stimulating nerves or brain tissue involves cumbersome wiring and a sharp metal electrode. But a team of researchers at Case Western Reserve University is going "wireless."

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Twitter has invaded every corner of society — even Yoko Ono’s at it. Ruth Jamieson investigates the rise of the twartist.

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An architect and a sports car designer sat down together in a bar in Berlin. While that may sound like the start of a funny story, the punch line is no joke.

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Jobs on the once-booming Chinese coast are vanishing at a stunning pace, leaving millions without work.

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When Steven Chu talks about how Americans can break their addiction to oil and coal, he starts with his hi-fi amplifier. It’s so old that the on-off light burned out long ago, but inside …

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The largest U.S. banks will face stress tests this week, as the government examines their long-term viability.

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Britain must embrace nuclear power if it is to meet its commitments on climate change, four of the country’s leading environmentalists — who spent much of their lives opposing atomic energy — warn today.

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Barack Obama outduelled Hillary Clinton on the Web during their battle for the Democratic presidential nomination. But Secretary of State Clinton is giving President Obama a run for the money in the latest Web …

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Japan offers a peek at how thrift can take lasting hold of a consumer society, to disastrous effect.

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One hundred and forty years after a transcontinental railroad linked California to the world, trains are being hailed as integral to the state’s growth in the 21st century.

For more than a century this ‘Antikythera mechanism’ has puzzled academics. It was ancient clockwork, unmatched in complexity for one thousand years — but who could have made it, and what was it for? Now, …

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A new gene that provides resistance to a fungal disease responsible for millions of hectares of lost wheat yield has been discovered by scientists from the US and Israel.

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Electric vehicle (EV) charging stations went live outside San Francisco’s City Hall this week as the mayor vowed that the area will lead the nation in steering away from gasoline-powered cars.

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About 300,000 Russians lost their jobs in January, bringing unemployment close to rates not seen since the socially unstable 1990s.

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China, which set off the biggest commodity price spike in a generation, is making deals that could prevent another surge later by helping finance new production in the trough of the cycle.

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Brokers and banks that trade credit default swaps off an exchange have agreed to clear their contracts centrally by the end of July to make markets less risky.

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The state technology industry is having an identity crisis. Companies like Wang Laboratories and Digital Equipment Corp., which defined Massachusetts in its high-tech heyday, are gone. Most of the dot-coms that once promised new …

In a book that’s one part prophecy, one part thought experiment, one part manifesto, and one part survival manual, internet impresario and blogging pioneer Jeff Jarvis reverse-engineers Google — the fastest-growing company in history — …

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The German finance minister has raised the prospect of a rescue of one country by the rest of the bloc becoming necessary.

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When you hear the word planet, do you automatically think of the word’s literal definition, or of other words, such as Earth, space, Mars, etc.? Especially when used in sentences, words tend to conjure …

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Alaska is fast becoming a testing ground for new technologies and an unlikely experiment in oil-state support for renewable energy.

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Microscopic, living machines that sense toxins in the air or deliver drugs in the body — the stuff of science fiction? A new Cornell student project team is working to make such things the …

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Firms devoted to clean energy and other "green tech" promise to revive a Silicon Valley economy sagging beneath a global financial meltdown and the US mortgage disaster, a report said.

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It seems like the country that used to make everything is on the brink of making nothing.

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Medicine and health are among the most popular topics for Web surfers, but an Internet entrepreneur, James Currier, says the current offerings are inadequate.

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It’s boom and bust for Silicon Valley companies these days. Literally. Facing their worst economic climate since the dot-com bust in the early 2000s, high-tech companies are treating 2009 with dread but also with …

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Not only is the wireless industry more resilient to the economic downturn than most, it is also likely to be one of the stimulants to help the global economy recover from the worst slowdown …

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A handheld device to predict whether patients will respond adversely to medication is one step closer to the market, thanks to a new partnership announced today.

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Alien life-forms may be thriving right here on Earth, a physicist tells a major science conference.

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Water scarcity is a major problem for people living in desert areas, including much of the Middle East and Africa. According to the United Nations, more than 1.6 million people die every year due …

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Recreational apps create admin hassle. UK IT managers believe they are losing control over what applications are running on their networks, with more than half believing that 40 percent or more of their network …

The idea of “sustainability” has gone mainstream. Thanks to Prius-driving movie stars, it’s even hip. What began as a grassroots movement to promote responsible development has become a bullet point in corporate ecobranding strategies. In …

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Local officials facing budget deficits are jockeying for the upper hand in deciding how money from the federal stimulus package will be spent in their regions.

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Researchers in the field of synthetic biology are still a long way from being able to assemble living cells from scratch in the laboratory. But according tobiochemists, their efforts are yielding clues to the …

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As the world lurches ever closer to economic catastrophe, China’s image is changing from that of currency manipulator to a source of badly needed consumer demand.

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Farmers and plant breeders around the globe are planting thousands of endangered seeds as part of an effort to save 100,000 varieties of food crops from extinction.

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Jobs are drying up around the world as the global economy enters its first overall downturn since the Great Depression, sparking social unrest in Europe and Asia along with calls to protect local workers …

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There could be one hundred billion Earth-like planets in the Milky Way galaxy, a US conference is told.

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New research tools will bring a boom in biotechnology that will unlock the enormous potential of using synthetic life to cure disease and develop environmentally friendly fuels, scientists say.

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The Chinese Water Resources Ministry plans to reduce consumption per unit of gross domestic product 60 percent by 2020, the minister said.

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In these green times, some companies hope smaller wind turbines will soon rise above homes and garages.

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With regulations to address climate change looming, coal power looks increasingly expensive.

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The severity of global warming over the next century will be worse than forecast, a leading climate scientist warns.

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The euro is set to grab the limelight this week as economic data deteriorates, more signs of trouble emerge in the region’s banking sector and turmoil in Eastern Europe threatens to spill over.

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For the past two decades, the Internet has been used by many as an easy-to-use tool that enables the spread of information globally. Increasingly, the Web is moving beyond its use as an electronic …

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Genetic diseases and genetically mixed populations can help researchers understand human diversity and human origins according to a Penn State physical anthropologist.

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Cisco has launched an initiative to help cities use technology to cultivate sustainable, intelligent industries as well as citizen services and overall economic growth. The initiative is called "Intelligent Urbanization."

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The new director of national intelligence told Congress that global economic turmoil and the instability it could ignite had outpaced terrorism.

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The administration is developing a standardized way to fix the mortgages of people near foreclosure.

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US and Russian satellites collide in space, creating a cloud of debris above Siberia in the first reported accident of its kind.

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A fall in Chinese exports in January provided the latest sign of how rapidly the country’s once-booming economy is slowing, with little sign so far that government stimulus measures have begun to stem the …

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Confronted with a change of priorities in Washington, international oil executives are expressing an eagerness to work with President Barack Obama to tackle global warming.

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Plants, algae, and cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) are masters of everything to do with solar energy because they are able to almost completely transform captured sunlight into chemical energy. This is in part because the …

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The ability to empathize with others is partially determined by genes, according to new research on mice from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU).

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Ford’s first all-electric vehicle in the US will be a commercial van that gets a range of 100 miles per charge with a top speed of 70 mph. The van, called the Ford Transit …

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Mayo Clinic researchers found that healthy, older adults who participated in a computer-based training program to improve the speed and accuracy of brain processing showed twice the improvement in certain aspects of memory, compared …

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President Barack Obama ordered a 60-day review of the nation’s cybersecurity to examine how federal agencies use technology to protect secrets and data.

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Sanyo Electric Co. said it plans to build a new solar cell plant in Japan, as it aims to double its production of the technology to meet growing demand for clean energy.

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Leaving your mobile phone charger at home when you go for a two week long vacation may just be the norm one day as scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Rice University, United …

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Investors in clean energy are like motorists stuck at broken traffic lights. The public policy light is green, but the price and credit lights are red.

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A Southern California man employed in the entertainment business is the fourth person verified by scientists to have an ultra-rare memory gift: He recalls in detail most days of his life, as well as …

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Joshua Silver, a lifelong tinkerer, was fiddling around one day with a cheap, water-filled lens he’d built as an optics experiment when he noticed something interesting.

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Customer Experience Concept Store Tackles Problems Facing Bricks-and-Mortar Retailers.

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Following the model of Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, Wikinvest is building a database of user-generated investment information on popular stocks.

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China, setting out its stall for the next global financial summit, wants the International Monetary Fund to get tougher with developed countries that let their economies run off the rails.

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Wireless Internet service on airlines may become a new source of tension between passengers on packed planes.

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Eightmaps.com is the latest example of how information collected through disclosure laws intended to increase the transparency of the political process, magnified by the powerful lens of the Web, may be undermining the same …

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Efforts in Europe to rein in compensation in the financial sector intensified as French bankers proposed guidelines to limit bonuses and Britain announced a review of rewards.

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China has used cloud-seeding in an attempt to create rain in at least seven drought-stricken provinces, officials said.

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China will divert water from its two longest rivers to help farmers hit by the country’s worst drought in decades, state media said.

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Most people consider hair as a purely cosmetic part of their lives. To others, it may help uncover one of nature’s best-kept secrets: the body’s ability to regenerate organs. Now, new research from Rockefeller …

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The Food and Drug Administration made history Friday as it approved the first drug made with materials from genetically engineered animals, clearing the way for a new class of medical therapies.

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As the Obama administration embarks on its $820 billion stimulus plan, many economists are taking a fresh look at Japan’s troubled experience.

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In the face of falling demand, Chinese shoemakers try to move upmarket.

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Using ultra-short laser pulses, scientists hope to understand how plants harvest the Sun’s energy.

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With the economic downturn taking a toll on industries that employ more men, American women are close to surpassing men on the nation’s payrolls.

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A rash of optimism — or maybe forlorn hope — has been breaking out among some economists who are taking a variety of recent economic signals as a sign that China’s economy may have …

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China has raised its drought emergency to the highest level for the first time as a dry spell spreads, leaving millions with little or no water and threatening wheat supplies, state media said

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Over two decades, Japan accumulated the largest public debt in the developed world while failing to generate a convincing recovery.

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Researchers demonstrate a wearable computer prototype that lets a person read and write to and from the internet using hand gestures. Then, voila — sync it to real-world devices like laptops and mobile phones. …

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The World Bank and the German government said they would inject as much as $500 million into microcredit banks, fledgling institutions in the developing world that are being starved of funding as financial markets …

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Coulomb Technologies has installed four of its ChargePoint Network electric-car charging stations in downtown San Jose and just landed $3.75 million in first-round venture funding.

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The action came a day after President Barack Obama warned against sending a "protectionist message" in the economic stimulus bill.

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With their immersive 3D capabilities, virtual-reality environments (VEs) provide the kind of intense visual experience that two-dimensional digital televisions could never to live up to. But digital TVs outperform VEs in one important way: …

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Now five years old, a student competition in synthetic biology embodies the struggles of the emerging discipline

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The Treasury Department is bringing back the seven-year note and doubling the number of its 30-year bond auctions as the government’s debt grows.

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With an upgrade to its mobile maps, Google Inc. hopes to prove it can track people on the go as effectively as it searches for information on the Internet.

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Would a dose of herbal tea slow the march of beetles killing millions of acres of pine trees across the West?

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Researchers are one step closer to making silicon chips that could one day repair damaged tissue in the human body.

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Hotel companies are reporting steady decreases in revenue, occupancy and average room rates, and some owners are terrified as debt payments come due.

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In the sense of technogasm, not matter-implosion Renowned futurologist Ray Kurzweil has teamed up with space promoter Peter Diamandis and Google to set up annual techno/zeitgeist workshops at the famous NASA Ames research centre …

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Water is the new carbon and companies are starting to engage in water strategy planning, measuring and managing of its use for greater efficiency, according to a new report.

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Long a symbol of romance and adventure, the seafaring life is attracting fewer young adults these days, creating a worsening personnel shortage for those hauling cargo across oceans and the Great Lakes of North …

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A gene linked to longevity in Japanese people has also been uncovered in Europeans, suggesting people with the right genes the world over can reach a ripe old age, a study published Tuesday showed.

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The Cambridge foundation that vowed to deliver a $100 laptop is about to get some competition. The Indian government will today unveil a prototype laptop that officials say can be produced for as little …

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The most common form of dementia may be closely related to another common disease of old-age – type II diabetes, say scientists.

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Several nations are buying land abroad to grow crops because they face water shortages at home. Unless a global solution is found a scramble for water could follow.

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U.S. medical researchers say they’ve determined the use of insulin might slow or even prevent the damage and memory loss caused by Alzheimer’s disease.

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Chinese citizens are starting to send more money out of the country and overseas investors are pulling money out of China while slowing their pace of new investments.

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Palo Alto is known for expensive modernism, Stanford University, al fresco dining, and land prices so high a modest cottage still sells for well over $1 million. If Patri Friedman gets his way, the …

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Web 2.0 project could provide key insights on global warming and other issues.

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There are rock festivals and book festivals — and then there is the annual globalisation festival, otherwise known as the World Economic Forum in Davos.

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As the world’s population increases, temperature rise and societies develop, will water become the "credit crunch" of tomorrow?

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Seventy-five nations including Germany, India, Kenya, and the United Arab Emirates launched last week the world’s first multinational organization dedicated solely to promoting renewable energy worldwide.

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Big Blue wants to help redundant U.S. employees relocate to developing markets, according to an internal document.

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Woolworths, the British retailer that closed all its 815 stores last month, will be resurrected as an online brand exactly 100 years after opening its first outlet.

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Researchers in Australia are reporting an advance toward the first urine test for diagnosing coronary artery disease (CAD), the condition responsible for most of the 1.5 million heart attacks that occur in the United …

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China’s government announced at a briefing that more than one in seven rural migrant workers have been laid off or are unable to find work.

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Using inexpensive off-the-shelf components, an information security expert has built a mobile platform that can clone large numbers of the unique electronic identifiers used in US passport cards and next generation drivers licenses.

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Quantum dots have the potential to bring many good things into the world: efficient solar power, targeted gene and drug delivery, solid-state lighting and advances in biomedical imaging among them.

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A new vehicle, developed by Willett Kempton, a renewable-energy professor at the University of Delaware, can hit 95 miles an hour and go 120 miles before charging. As impressive as those numbers are, the …

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U.S. biologists have discovered high atmospheric carbon dioxide levels negatively affect a soybean plant’s defenses against leaf-eating insects.

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With funding by Google, three engineers from Michigan have installed a satellite-powered Internet connection that links a rural village to the rest of the world.

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Why the silence on population needs to be broken.

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The automaker is planning to operate its factories in North America, Japan and Asia excluding China at just 60 percent of capacity through March.

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As supplies of fresh water evaporate, the world turns to the sea.

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Biogas produced from waste could heat almost half the UK’s homes, lowering greenhouse gas emissions, a report says.

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Researchers hope that radio transmitters can warn of cognitive decline earlier.

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The downturn has sent a wave of concern through the community of immigrant workers who hold the visa, which companies can use to hire skilled noncitizens. Though there is no official tally of visa …

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President Barack Obama and his aides insist that they can fashion a fast and efficient economic stimulus plan while also seizing the moment to remake America.

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The descendents of Abraham are ready. They were born inside a cinderblock bubble in an anonymous building surrounded by fields in western Wisconsin.

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Social computing sites are as an opportunity for customer research, a panel of vendors suggest.

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Driven dreamers bound by belief they can change the world for the better are gathering in California for the ultimate inspirational brain boot camp — TED.

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In limiting the number of people he would exchange e-mail with, President Barack Obama created a new measure for Washington to judge who really has the ear, or the thumb, of the president.

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World leaders in Davos, well aware of recent riots and spreading political discontent, vowed to do more to prevent the financial crisis causing deeper economic damage and making global poverty worse.

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The cost of purging bad bank debts from the world financial system is rising, and it looks increasingly likely that taxpayers will have to foot a large portion of a bill that could run …

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Gannett plans a $5 billion write-down and a possible dividend reduction, and The Los Angeles Times and A.H. Belo, publisher of The Dallas Morning News, each announced major job cuts.

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Something terrible has happened in the United States and around the world. But a deeper look at the economic downturn, and the social changes it is bringing, shows a more complex picture.

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Can the U.S. government fashion a fast and efficient economic stimulus while also seizing the moment to remake the United States?