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They could capture nearly all of the sun's light, as opposed to just 20%.

The Russian-born industrialist billionaire, who made his fortune in chemical and natural resource companies after the fall of the Soviet Union, just bought Warner Music Group, the record label that manages Cher, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Waka Flocka Flame. Access Industries will acquire Warner Music Group , for $3.3 billion in cash, it was announced today.

Earlier this year, Google made a few changes to its search system to try to fight the tendency of content from spam sites and content farms to rise to the top of results. Now it’s saying that those changes have impacted 12% of all search queries

Why do we demand things of electric cars that we would never demand of normal ones?

Smartphones, MP3 players, tablets, laptops, netbooks--modern consumers never leave the house without more electronics than Robocop. We're addicted to using and spending money on mobile devices, which might explain why automakers lately can't stop trying to capture some of that trillion-dollar market for themselves. To wit: Today Microsoft and Toyota announced a strategic partnership to build the "ultimate 'mobile device.'" Touted as a 1 billion yen investment in Toyota Media Service (a lot more catchy than saying $12 million), the partnership will have both companies team up to build a global cloud platform to support next-gen telematics in Toyota's hybrid and plug-in vehicles

TED data could power apps, visualizations, and more. TED announced today at SXSW that it is opening all of its online talks to the public. An application programming interface (API) will allow open access to all talks and associated data (topic, location, speaker, etc.) for developers who might use that info to build all sorts of tools and applications.

The life--and money--you save could be your own. With very few exceptions, killing people is bad for business