05.02.2012
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05.02.2012
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Semprius makes solar modules using tiny cells that need less cooling.
Semprius, a startup that makes miniscule solar cells capable of capturing concentrated sunlight without costly cooling systems, announced this week that it had made the world's most efficient solar panel.
Kaggle organizes contests for organizations looking to make valuable predictions from mountains of data.
Some things—fog in San Francisco or traffic in New York City—are easy to predict. Others, such as the way a stock market will react to big trades, or the progression of an HIV patient's illness, are far more complicated. That's where a startup called Kaggle comes in. It organizes contests in which participants attempt to make seemingly impossible predictions by analyzing mountains of data.
When it's the Boxx.
This isn?t your grandfather?s electric bike. (Assuming he had one?)
An intelligent assistant would be the ideal way to deal with remote-control overload.
Rumor has it Apple is about to start making the the world's favorite gadget.
17-year-old Laura Deming doesn't drive and can't vote. Is now her chance to change the world?
Laura Deming was studying for finals in a crowded MIT reading room last April when her phone rang. That's when she learned she may never again take another exam.
But is it a bad sign for electric vehicles?
Electric vehicle enthusiasts (and critics) are keeping a close eye on sales of GM?s Volt this year to get a sense of whether electric vehicles will really finally catch on. GM has said that it hopes to sell 30,000 Volts in 2012, which would mean selling, on average 2,500 a month. It?s far short of that pace for January having sold just 603.
But it's doing very, very well.
iRobot Corp., makers of the beloved Roomba (and a lot more), announced that it would be investing $6 million in InTouch Health, a telemedicine company operating in 80 hospitals around the world. Though $6 million represents just a minority stake in the company, it?s--needless to say--a substantial investment, and a strong expansion of a joint development and licensing agreement the two companies had announced last summer.
Just how ants create the highly efficient network of trails around their nests has never been fully understood. Now researchers think they've cracked it
Among the most impressive transportation networks on the planet are the complex trails that ants create around their nests. These networks arise through the ants' exploration of their environment and end up channelling the distribution of food for the colony and the daily movements hundreds of thousands of individuals.
Tweets and other social media comments are about to drive real-time changes in programming.
During this Sunday's Super Bowl, a record five million viewers are expected to tweet or make other social media comments—not just about the game, but also about the many beer, snack, and car ads that are integral to the annual sports and entertainment ritual.
The world's largest social network is profitable, but fears Google and Apple.
In an announcement that Facebook hopes will be ?liked? by many, the world?s largest social network filed to become a publicly listed company late Wednesday. Documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission provide investors and Facebook users the first public glimpse of the company?s financial state, technological challenges, and ambitions.
