27/10/2015

How Comcast wants to meter the Internet

Three years after Comcast began offering unlimited home-Internet usage, the cable giant is moving in the opposite direction. In more parts of the U.S., it's starting to charge heavy data users extra.

Brownian Carnot engine

In a recent study published in Nature Physics, ICFO researchers Ignacio Martínez, Édgar Roldán, the late Dmitri Petrov and Raúl Rica, in collaboration with the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, have reported on the development ...

The modern, molecular hunt for the world's biodiversity

The news is full of announcements about newly discovered forms of life. This fall, we learned of a 30,000-year-old giant virus found in frozen Siberia. Until now, known viruses have contained so little genetic information ...

Review: Pay-by-phone works, mostly

This week I've been paying for things with my phone, and while I do appreciate the technology, I'm wondering if mobile wallets will take off or fizzle out.

New ways to put energy in the bank

Mike Hopkins sells an ice maker that stores energy. It's not sexy technology, he notes. But his Santa Barbara, Calif.-based business, Ice Energy, is growing fast.

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