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Low-Budget Fusion Reactor Could Generate Energy within a Decade
(PhysOrg.com) -- Currently, most nuclear fusion power plants are large, expensive projects that will take decades to benefit from. But a startup company in Vancouver, Canada, called General Fusion is taking ...
Aug 04, 2009 |
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Fuel-injection System That Delivers 64 Miles Per Gallon
(PhysOrg.com) -- The best hybrid cars of today can only deliver about 48 miles per gallon. By using this newly developed fuel injection system a test vehicle was measured at achieving 64 miles per gallon in ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 10, 2010 |
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California sprouts marijuana 'green rush'
(AP) -- A drug deal plays out, California-style: A conservatively dressed courier drives a company-leased Smart Car to an apartment on a weekday afternoon. Erick Alvaro hands over a white paper bag to his ...
Jul 18, 2009 |
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Ionic liquid catalyst helps turn emissions into fuel
An Illinois research team has succeeded in overcoming one major obstacle to a promising technology that simultaneously reduces atmospheric carbon dioxide and produces fuel.
Oct 06, 2011 |
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Cost-cutting drives solar cell process at Twin Creeks
(PhysOrg.com) -- A San Jose, California, startup company, Twin Creeks Technologies, says it has figured out a way to substantially cut the cost of making silicon solar cells. The company’s technology ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 15, 2012 |
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Groundbreaking portable PET scanner moves closer to market, medical applications
SynchroPET, a Long Island startup company, has entered into an option agreement to commercialize a new small-scale, portable brain-imaging device invented by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s ...
Jan 27, 2012 |
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Google co-founder Brin prefers Yahoo! without Bing
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has expressed amazement at resistance to the Internet giant's efforts to digitize the world's books and lamented a deal to have Microsoft handle online search at Yahoo!
Oct 23, 2009 |
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Google ready to open wallet again after stellar 3Q
(AP) -- Google Inc.'s earnings and stock price are soaring again - and so is the Internet search leader's optimism.
Oct 16, 2009 |
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Company uses Kinect to create a touchscreen out of any surface (w/ Video)
(Phys.org) -- Ubi Interactive has developed a display system that will convert virtually any surface to a touchscreen display using a conventional projector, a Microsoft Kinect device, and proprietary software ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
May 28, 2012 |
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Solar industry faces head winds but remains hopeful
Solar-industry executives paint a bright future for their industry, one where photovoltaic panels adorn roofs of homes and businesses and huge power plants capture the sun's rays to generate electricity. But the industry ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jan 22, 2009 |
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New funding for Viewdle, which lets smartphones 'see'
High-powered players are pumping 10 million dollars into Viewdle, a technology startup crafting ways to let smartphones "see" things the same way people do and identify faces.
Oct 07, 2010 |
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New startup believes it has a way to cheaply convert methane to ethylene
(PhysOrg.com) -- When people think of uses for petroleum, they generally think of oil and gasoline, but doing so means ignoring the production of ethylene, a compound used to make many of the products most ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Oct 04, 2011 |
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Facebook co-founder unveils Asana productivity software
Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz unveiled his highly anticipated new company, a developer of software that aims to help people work more efficiently.
Nov 03, 2011 |
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A strong business plan is most important when investing in start-ups
When making investments, investors look for start-ups that have a strong business plan and a strong management team. A new study in The Journal of Finance reveals that while strong management is important, ultimately a stro ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Apr 08, 2009 |
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Amazon expected to lift wraps on large-screen Kindle
Amazon.com is widely expected to lift the wraps on a new large-screen Kindle device this week, which could be the first in a line of electronic reading devices geared toward newspapers and textbooks.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
May 04, 2009 |
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