News tagged with conference
TED takes on 'What the world needs now'
Let the mind-bending begin! A TED conference that attracts brilliant minds and challenges them to solve humanity's ills got underway Tuesday in the southern California city of Long Beach.
Feb 10, 2010 |
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Google courts smartphone game makers
Google is courting folks that make games people love to play on smartphones.
Jan 23, 2010 |
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Climate talks end with eye on next year
(AP) -- A historic U.N. climate conference ended Saturday with only a nonbinding "Copenhagen Accord" to show for two weeks of debate and frustration. It was a deal short on concrete steps against global warming, ...
Dec 19, 2009 |
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Diplomatic frenzy at final day of UN climate talks
(AP) -- A diplomatic frenzy enveloped the final day of the U.N. climate conference Friday, with President Barack Obama twice meeting privately with China's premier as world leaders pressed to salvage a global ...
Dec 18, 2009 |
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Unique 'Climate One Stop' Web Site Unveiled in Copenhagen
There's a storm brewing -- a storm of information, that is, in climate and environmental research. People are wading through the turbulence, trying to make sense of it all.
Dec 15, 2009 |
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World's mayors tackle climate change on their own
(AP) -- It isn't easy getting Italy's city dwellers out of their Fiats, off their Vespa scooters and onto bicycles to ride to work, "like here in Copenhagen," says an Italian environmental official.
Dec 14, 2009 |
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Stolen e-mails embolden climate change skeptics
(AP) -- At a critical time, the uproar over stolen e-mails suggesting scientists suppressed contrary views about climate change has emboldened skeptics - including congressional Republicans looking to scuttle President Barack ...
Dec 10, 2009 |
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Germany unveils world's largest weather supercomputer
Germany Thursday unveiled the world's most powerful weather supercomputer that scientists hope will provide critical data on global warming for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 10, 2009 |
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Soros: Climate financing dispute could wreck talks (Update)
(AP) -- The $10 billion a year proposed by rich nations to help the poor adapt to climate change is "not sufficient" and the gap between what's offered and what's needed could wreck the Copenhagen climate ...
Dec 10, 2009 |
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EPA head: US must make up for lost time on climate
(AP) -- The top U.S. environmental official told a divided U.N. climate conference Wednesday that the Obama administration's moves to "make up for lost time" and cut greenhouse gases would complement congressional ...
Dec 09, 2009 |
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Leaked document stirs anger at climate summit
(AP) -- A leaked Danish document at the U.N. climate conference provoked angry criticism Tuesday from developing countries who feared it would shift more of the burden to curb greenhouse gases on poorer countries.
Dec 08, 2009 |
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The last best chance: UN climate conference opens
(AP) -- The largest and most important U.N. climate change conference in history opened Monday, with organizers warning diplomats from 192 nations that this could be the last best chance for a deal to protect ...
Dec 07, 2009 |
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Arts and sciences join to develop greener, more efficient conferences and exhibits
Santanu Majumdar spent his years as a graphic design graduate student developing a project that might sound counterintuitive for a student of fine arts - a software program made to simplify information gathering at conferences ...
Dec 01, 2009 |
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Controversial new climate change results
(PhysOrg.com) -- New data show that the balance between the airborne and the absorbed fraction of CO2 has stayed approximately constant since 1850, despite emissions of CO2 having risen from about 2 billion ...
Nov 10, 2009 |
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Experts meet to hash out web privacy rules
Hundreds of privacy experts from around the world met in Madrid on Wednesday for a three-day conference which aims to arrive at a global standard for the protection of personal data.
Nov 04, 2009 |
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