Advances in delivering and storing electricity are crucial to the future of electric cars and otherwise reducing reliance on energy produced from burning fossil fuels. Yet a powerful means of running electronics that can charge and discharge quickly while also storing large amounts of energy has long eluded scientists
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Seems Google is going to release sweeping changes to its flagship search functionality.
Read More »Get Free Help for Your Business
Corporations, states and Uncle Sam offer loads of free help to women-owned businesses.
Read More »Busted! Worst Cases of Misleading Ads
Overselling your product's abilities can cost way more than just your reputation. Here are six cautionary tales you need to know. Believe it or not, a Brooklyn man filed a class-action lawsuit this week against tech giant Apple saying its ads oversold Siri, the talking assistant, on the iPhone 4S
Read More »A Private Weekend of Pork and Pinot Noir
Charlie Palmer’s annual Pigs & Pinot event may be sold out, but now through April guests of the Hotel Healdsburg in California’s Russian River Valley can have their own Pigs & Pinot weekend with a new, two-night package offered as a part of the hotel’s Epicurean Winter program. Guests who ...
Read More »Why Twitter Bought Posterous: Talent And Apple
Yesterday Twitter revealed it bought Posterous , a lifeblogging/microblogging/sharing site.
Read More »Is Your Memory Good Enough To Remember That You Read This?
You know your device's memory will one day fail or not be enough, but how well do you know the faults of your onboard wetware? The best memory system may not be the one inside your head.
Read More »Khan Academy Enters Next Era With iPad App
Offline learning is the latest tool for the unorthodox education organization. Here's how that and other new features will power Khan Academy's new app. Khan Academy , the wildly popular YouTube lecture series, is slated to launch its iPad app any minute now in Apple's store
Read More »Pepsi also changes chemical coloring to avoid cancer warning label
Levels of 4-methylimidazole chemical used in coloring process would require cancer warning label in California
Read More »Proposed Wildlife Policy Change Draws Fire
By Steve Gorman and Laura Zuckerman (Reuters) - Dozens of conservation groups and nearly 100 scientists voiced opposition on Thursday to an Obama administration proposal they say would make it much harder for imperiled creatures to qualify for protection under the Endangered Species Act.
Read More »Skateboard Empire: Stoked Skateboards
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Read More »Cracking the iPhone: iCracked
A college student stealing business from Apple? AJ Forsythe has built his business on fixing iPhone cheaper and more conveniently. AJ Forsythe was becoming one of Apple’s best customers
Read More »Can You Hear Me Now? Human Noise Disrupts Blue Whale Communication
When you dive into the frigid waters of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of southern California, the first thing you notice is the silence. Other than the bitter cold
Read More »5 Reasons You Need to Meet in Person
My clients are just like yours: They want to Skype, email and text. But here's why you still need face time. When the daily avalanche of emails and voice messages gets overwhelming, it’s so tempting to retreat to my office and start typing replies and returning phone calls
Read More »How to Build Great Collaborations
The power of cooperation and comedy to make useful products. As much as we may love the romantic idea of creativity as a solo, heroic activity, the truth more often is that innovation requires collaboration. We need other people to refine, develop, and test our ideas; that's one of the reasons we do so much work in teams
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