By Greg Lindsay | FAST COMPANY | February 1, 2010
The world is bracing for an influx of billions of new urbanites in the coming decades, and tech companies are rushing to build new green cities to house them. Are these companies creating a smarter metropolis — or just making money?
Stan Gale is exultant. The chairman [...]
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Cisco’s Big Bet on New Songdo: Creating Cities From Scratch
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This Satellite Could Help Save Humanity
But DSCOVR remains grounded. That fact is key to interpreting the so-called ‘climategate’ emails.
by Mitchell Anderson | TheTyee.ca | January 20, 2010
The media missed the real story about the so-called “climategate” scandal.
After thousands of emails were mysteriously stolen from the University of East Anglia and distributed just before the climate conference in Copenhagen, many news outlets seemed [...]
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Google to end censorship in China over cyber attacks
Decision from world’s leading search engine comes amid a clampdown on the internet in China over the last year Google challenge to China over censorship
by Tania Branigan in Beijing | The Guardian | Wednesday 13 January 2010
Google, the world’s leading search engine, has thrown down the gauntlet to China by saying it is no longer willing to censor search results [...]
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Top Scientific Breakthroughs of 2009
By Wired Science | December 31, 2009
With so many incredible scientific advances and discoveries this year, Wired Science had a tough time choosing which 10 were the biggest. So, we went with the ones that stood out for us. From the amazing collective power of jellyfish, to a new human ancestor, to a cancer-detecting breathalyzer [...]
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Solar conference: Here comes the sun and renewable energy
‘Community solar park’: State hopes Ellensburg idea takes off
LEAH BETH WARD | YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC | December 13, 2009
ELLENSBURG – Gary Nystedt was brainstorming with a group of colleagues at a solar energy conference a few years ago when the idea hit him.
What if Ellensburg put up solar panels in a park and invited residents to [...]
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Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology
At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data — including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper “laptop.” In an onstage Q&A, Mistry says he’ll open-source the software behind SixthSense, to open its possibilities to all.
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Barnes & Noble Nook Review: Pretty Damn Good
GIZMODO | By Wilson Rothman | December 7, 2009
A Two-Horse Race
Do this now: Disregard all other ebook readers on the market besides Nook and Kindle. Unless you plan to get all of your books from back-alley torrents, or stick to self-published and out-of-copyright PDFs, you are going to need a reader with a good content-delivery system, one [...]
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Can Anyone Stop Facebook?
Twitter couldn’t. Google couldn’t …
By Farhad ManjooPosted Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009, at 5:20 PM ET
Nearly a year ago—in the course of cajoling people into joining the ubiquitous social network—I marveled at Facebook’s astonishing growth rate: The site had just signed up its 150 millionth member, and about 370,000 people were joining every day. “At this [...]
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Green homes red-hot: 17% of new builds get Energy Star seal
By Wendy Koch, USA TODAY, December 4, 2009
The home building industry is struggling, but one sector is booming: green homes.
The number of homes winning the government’s Energy Star designation since the program began in 1995 has crossed the 1 million mark. Despite an overall housing slump, 75,000 have been added so far this year for [...]
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10 Expert Tips for Designing a One Page Portfolio
Written by Joshua Johnson, On 28th November 2009.
Filed in Inspiration, Layouts.
Once upon a time, designers would lug unwieldy physical portfolios from interview to interview to showcase their work. This tactic is steadily being replaced with sending out emails containing links to an online portfolio. A portfolio website is becoming an essential marketing tool for [...]