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Don't just sit there while the clock is ticking on your business idea. Go where the nerds are.
Read More »First ever direct measurement of the Earth’s rotation
A group with researchers of the Technical University of Munich, Germany, are the first to plot changes in the Earth's axis through laboratory measurements.
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 »Structural origin of ‘hidden state’ in manganite thin film revealed by picosecond time-resolved X-ray diffraction
Photo-induced phase transition (PIPT) has caused great excitement in materials science because ultra-fast alteration of the magnetic, dielectric, structural and optical properties of materials can be brought about with very weak photonic excitation as a result of cooperative interactions. An essential question that arises is how we can identify a novel phase of solid that is uniquely generated under photo-excited conditions.
Read More »Can "Cambridge Crude" Sludge Revolutionize EV Battery Charging?
Breakthrough battery tech from MIT could mean recharging your EV would still involve the phrase "fill 'er up." MIT's been working on a really unusual new battery technology that turns upside-down the notions we currently have about rechargeable batteries. It involves a full rethinking of how a battery is designed, and could result in a reusable liquid that could be pumped into your battery to charge it in minutes
Read More »This Week In Bots: Juggling, Pool-playing, Tiny, Spying Flying Drones, And Extreme Cuteness
It has been written that: "At bottom, robotics is about us. It is the discipline of emulating our lives, of wondering how we work." So what can this week's crop of mechanistic marvels tell us about ourselves? Juggling robots Juggling is surely a human-only art
Read More »Patent Watch: "StunRay" Disables with a Flash of Light
Incapacitating light beam: The suspect is going for his gun, and the police officer doesn’t want to shoot. The founders of a company called Genesis Illumination hope police officers will soon be reaching for a StunRay instead of a gun or Taser.
Read More »Wave-and-Pay NFC Credit Cards Are Definitely In-Bound
A number of moves by different companies and organizations around the world seem to be confirming a long - held rumor is true: Wireless credit card payments using NFC (Near Field wireless Communications) are coming. And (although we ourselves have wavered a bit ) they're coming soon. Verifone We knew Verifone , one of the biggest players in the handheld credit card processing unit market, was going to be adding NFC to all its new handsets, but the company has just set out exactly how and why it's making this move.
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