People aren't so gung-ho about smart meters, but they are about electric vehicles. But when they realize that combining the two can lead to huge savings, things might change. With so many promised benefits to the adoption of smart grid solutions, I have been conducting a lot of research lately on why it has taken so long to get the smart grid on track in North America.
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Feed SubscriptionUnrelenting sex drive may signal deadly rabies
A 28-year-old woman in India came to her doctor with an unusual complaint: a sudden and persistent increase in her sex drive. She felt constantly aroused, often with no stimulation at all
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Sandwich contains 540,000 calories and takes 22 hours to cook
Read More »Video: Stores pull "Schweddy Balls" from shelves
"Ben & Jerry's" popular "Schweddy Balls" ice cream, based on a "Saturday Night Live" sketch featuring Alec Baldwin, has been pulled from some supermarket shelves over concerns of vulgarity. CBSNews.com's Ken Lombardi reports.
Read More »Ericsson’s Secret To Success: China, And Mobile Net Infrastructure (Not Taking On The iPhone)
The world is swiftly adapting to mobile internet solutions, and in industrialized nations the era of dumbphones and 2G tech is all but over. This represents a huge opportunity for Swedish firm Ericsson, because though you may not know it, Ericsson's technology underpins much of the hardware that makes cell phone networks actually work.
Read More »Children with autism have distinct facial features: Study
"If we can identify when these facial changes occur, we could pinpoint when autism may begin to develop in a child"
Read More »The Most Energy Efficient States In The Nation
A new report details which state governments are doing the most to be energy efficient. Hey, Alabama's not such a fuel-guzzling planet-killer anymore! Energy efficiency--it's all the rage these days. From CFL light bulbs to Energy Star fridges, it's easy to try to reduce your personal energy consumption
Read More »"Steve Jobs" By The Numbers
Just how big will the biography of the late Apple founder be? It's "the biggest nonfiction book of the year," a publishing insider tells Fast Company. Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs
Read More »Are men funnier than women? Cartoon test tells answer
Men do better than women at writing humorous captions for blank cartoon, but not by much
Read More »Suicide study finds regional differences in suicidal thoughts, actions
Survey of 90,000 U.S. adults found more than 8 million Americans consider taking their own life
Read More »This Week In Bots: The Flapping, Foam-Spraying, Zombie-Satellite-Tracking, Poop-Scoopin’ Edition
Flying Dinosaur Bot There's a big debate about how modern bird evolved from flying dinosaurs, and another about how those dinosaurs learned to fly: Did they gradually get better at gliding like a flying squirrel, or did they run-flap along the ground giving them better hunting speed and the ability to easily leap onto perches?
Read More »Will The Real 99% Please Stand Up?
Occupy Wall Street is meant to be a leaderless movement. But that hasn't stopped some people from trying to identify leaders.
Read More »The Friendly Skies: Trippy Gets You Traveling With Friend-Sourcing
Dreaming up travel on Trippy makes it all a reality, says J.R. Johnson, the startup's founder
Read More »Fast Talk: Freewheel CTO Diane Yu On Making Video Into Ad Revenue, Lemons Into Lemonade
Diane Yu sees a $160 billion worldwide TV market opportunity for her company and its clients. As chief technology officer and cofounder of Freewheel --an ad tech firm with 130 full-time employees and U.S. headquarters in New York--Yu helps major television networks make sense of all the ads they're selling, and helps brands figure out what works to reach audiences wherever they're watching video content, now.
Read More »CouponCabin Raises $54 Million
Investors are hot on coupons.
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