Archive for September 22nd, 2009

Forgot to charge your cell phone last night? Imagine that you could power it by walking. Weirder still, you might be able to just spray a new battery on. In a small but growing field, nanotechnology is being used to create energy.
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  • AT&T takes phone out of iPhone

    Three weeks ago, I got a call on a friend’s iPhone while in the middle of a desert; cell phone coverage had come to Burning Man.
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  • The world’s tropical forests are disappearing, and one reason is simple economics: People, companies and governments earn more by logging, mining or farming places such as the Amazon jungle than by conserving them.
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  • Facebook gets caught in dispute

    Logging onto Facebook as a resident in the Golan Heights, should you enter Syria or Israel as your home country?
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  • Two MIT students rigged a camera to a weather balloon, launched it 17 miles above the Earth and captured remarkable images of near-space — all for $148. The unlikely feat even surprised themselves.
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  • A series of spooky lights above parts of the northeastern United States Saturday sparked a flurry of phone calls to authorities and television news stations.
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  • Government lawyers urged a federal court judge late Friday to reject a proposed settlement which would allow Google to digitally scan massive libraries of books and place them online.
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