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South Africa has launched a Long Range Identification and Tracking (LRIT) system , a sophisticated network of satellites meant to monitor sea vessels and track down pirates. Somali pirates are increasingly moving South, putting South African vessels in greater jeopardy. Last year alone there were over 400 incidences of piracy off the horn of Africa, resulting in $238 million in ransoms.

Pharmaceutical giants facing extreme economic pressure as big name patents run out, few new drugs in the pipeline

Scientists spent 15 years developing injection, which is the 1st new drug to treat immune disorder in 50 years

The long national nightmare is coming to an end, Apple-istas. The white iPhone 4 will finally be available in a matter of just a few weeks

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JR, the graffiti-artist-turned-photographer-turned-global-phenomenon, talks to Fast Company about embarking on his global TED project, which encourages citizen artists to document and display the faces of their own communities. Last fall, the French street artist JR , known for his haunting, massive posters of the faces of ordinary people, won the 2011 TED Prize

No other caddie has traveled so far to work so little than Steve Williams.

Toyota announced this week that the Prius, the first (and perhaps most beloved) mass-produced hybrid vehicle, passed 3 million sales worldwide in February. This isn't just a boon for Toyota; it's a big deal for the entire car industry.

An enterprising team of animators has hacked Microsoft 's Kinect sensor suite to do something tangibly amazing: They're using the cheap hardware as a motion-replication system to power CGI characters.

Ontario, Canada is in the midst of a solar boom. The province contains the largest operational solar facility in the world--a 97 megawatt behemoth built by First Solar--and has contracts for over 1,400 more megawatts of solar power ready to be built.

IBM announced the first batch of cities this week awarded grants as part of the company's three-year, $50 million Smarter Cities Challenge . The recipients --including New Orleans, Newark, Rio de Janeiro, and Jakarta--are diverse, to say the least. So how did they end up with IBM's attention, and what happens now?

China announced wide-sweeping health care reforms this week , focusing on building more hospitals, reducing the price of common drugs, banning smoking from public spaces, and increasing state insurance subsidies. China--despite heavy reliance on government funding for social programs--has developed a curiously excessive reliance on the sales of drugs to fund hospitals, a feature of its health care system that doesn't quite sit right with the nation's overarching philosophy--or with its citizens. "I think that no matter what kind of hospital, you should rely on medical technology and improved services to gain income," said Sun Zhigang , the National Development and Reform Commission's deputy director.

TED is one of the world's most important meeting of amazing minds and, consequently, tends to produce its fair share of insights. What makes the event unique is that it is completely polymath, bringing together people from every discipline under the sun

Apple's nifty new iPad 2 cover had tech geeks drooling last week.

NEW YORK CITY--Amid a panel discussion about string theory and other candidates for the theory of everything--the long-sought system that would unify the four forces of physics--Brian Greene said something that sounded a bit curious. "If you asked me, 'Do I believe in string theory?'" began Greene, one of string theory's most famous proponents