News tagged with history of technology
For a pioneer of technology, 100 years of 'Think'
Google, Apple and Facebook get all the attention. But the forgettable everyday tasks of technology - saving a file on your laptop, swiping your ATM card to get 40 bucks, scanning a gallon of milk at the checkout ...
Jun 16, 2011 |
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Looking ahead with tech icon Bob Metcalfe
One of the great things about living in Silicon Valley is that the history of technology is alive all around us.
Mar 18, 2009 |
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Greenhouse gas levels hit 'troubling milestone'
(AP) — The world's air has reached what scientists call a troubling new milestone for carbon dioxide, the main global warming pollutant.
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Earthquakes without frontiers
Understanding the threat posed by unanticipated earthquakes in continental interiors is the focus of a new study led by the University of Cambridge.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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7 scientists share $1 million prizes for research
(AP) — Seven scientists won prizes Thursday for discoveries that involve the furthest reaches of the solar system, vanishingly tiny materials and the complexities of the brain. One finding helped end Pluto's status as ...
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Standing trees better than burning ones for carbon neutrality
The search for alternatives to fossil fuels has prompted growing interest in the use of wood, harvested directly from forests, as a carbon-neutral energy source.
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Study takes novel 'back-casting' approach to transform cities for healthier lives
Researchers at four of the country's leading universities are embarking on a low carbon engineering project that could transform the way cities are built, as well as the way we live in them, by taking a novel 'back-casting' ...
May 29, 2012 |
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Prehistoric cold case links humans to Tasmanian megafauna extinctions
A team of Australian and New Zealand researchers have discovered fresh evidence that could finally unravel the mystery of what killed Tasmania's giant marsupials over 40,000 years ago.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 28, 2012 |
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Researchers conclude that climate change led to collapse of ancient Indus civilization
A new study combining the latest archaeological evidence with state-of-the-art geoscience technologies provides evidence that climate change was a key ingredient in the collapse of the great Indus or Harappan Civilization ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 28, 2012 |
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Dragon makes history with space station docking
The private company SpaceX made history Friday with the docking of its Dragon capsule to the International Space Station, the most impressive feat yet in turning routine spaceflight over to the commercial ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 25, 2012 |
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Geological record shows air up there came from below
(Phys.org) -- The influence of the ground beneath us on the air around us could be greater than scientists had previously thought, according to new research that links the long-ago proliferation of oxygen ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 23, 2012 |
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HP's missteps culminate in loss of 27,000 jobs (Update)
(AP) -- Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman has quantified the painful price that must be paid for the missteps of her predecessors as she tries to turn around the Silicon Valley pioneer. The bungling will wipe ...
May 23, 2012 |
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