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As Japanese military struggles to cool overheating fuel rods at the country’s damaged nuclear plant, some suggest a full meltdown might actually be happening somewhere else--in the corporate suites of Tokyo Electric Power Co. Tepco, as it’s known, is a for-profit utility that owns the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station and other plants and provides almost 35% of Japan’s electricity ( pdf ). And in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami that brought the country to nuclear crisis, the organization is turning into a lighting rod of political criticism.

Scientists have made a curious breakthrough in computer chip technology. They've discovered that if you "prune" a chip's design--chopping off little-used functions and actually allowing it to make errors--it can result in far more power efficient and smaller designs.

GolfChannel: It may be 20 years away or perhaps it's even closer. What is clear is that PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem and his European counterpart George O'Grady are talking about a unified tour.

First came Geminoid , now there's Robokind . The diminutive educational robot coated with Frubber, a semi-convincing kind of synthetic robot skin, can replicate a great variety of human expressions. But is this a good thing

In the clearest language to date, Democratic Senator Herb Kohl of Wisconsin signaled heavy scrutiny of Google coming in 2011. An antitrust showdown between the U.S

More technology does not always mean more openness and collaboration. Consider the divergent examples of Tunisia, writing its new constitution via the collaborative, open-source PiratePad, and Hungary, writing its guiding document via the very proprietary iPad.

Last year, Stratasys and Kor Ecologic introduced the first 3-D printed car .

By Alison Abbott The European Commission has selected six futuristic proposals to compete for two huge flagship projects that will apply information and communication technologies to social problems. [More]

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