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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
Read More »3 Biggest Entrepreneur Opportunities Now
The cost of starting a business today is lower than ever. If you have an idea, pursue it.
Read More »Internet Freedom Fighters Build a Shadow Web (preview)
Just after midnight on January 28, 2011, the government of Egypt, rocked by three straight days of massive antiregime protests organized in part through Facebook and other online social networks, did something unprecedented in the history of 21st-century telecommunications: it turned off the Internet.
Read More »If Your Customers Are Poised For Revolt, It’s Time For Extreme Trust
Two thousand years before smartphones, Plato suggested that excessive democracy would lead directly to tyranny, because sooner or later the majority will choose to trample the rights of the minority.
Read More »Our Perfect Merger (and Acquisition)
In a single year, a couple got married, got pregnant, and founded a fast-growing company.
Read More »Our Perfect Merger (and Acquisition)
In a single year, a couple got married, got pregnant, and founded a fast-growing company. Two-thousand and five was the year of the perfect merger and acquisition
Read More »The Saudi Prince And The $300 Million Twitter Investment
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal of Saudi Arabia announced a $300 million investment in Twitter today. Alwaleed is one of several mega-investors to have pumped serious cash into Twitter in 2011; however, there are fears Alwaleed will censor Twitter
Read More »TEDxBrooklyn Takeaways: 5 Predictions You Need to Know
Brooklyn's business leaders ponder the future of hacking, crowdfunding, and your customers' shopping habits in the second TEDxBrooklyn. How will you "redefine better" in 2012? Friday's TEDxBrooklyn conference focused on that theme by bringing together some of the biggest forces that have "bettered" the borough in recent years
Read More »Hydrodynamics of writing with ink
For millennia, writing has been the preferred way to convey information and knowledge from one generation to another. We first developed the ability to write on clay tablets with a point, and then settled on a reed pen, as preserved from 3000 BC in Egypt when it was used with papyrus.
Read More »Sneak Peek: Sofitel Legend Old Cataract Aswan, Egypt
After a three-year renovation, the historic Sofitel Legend Old Cataract Aswan resort, located on the banks of Egypt’s Nile River, reopened on October 1.
Read More »A Web-Fomented Protest On Wall Street Is Louder Online Than Off
A modest, recession-inspired demonstration grabs plenty of online attention. Is the future of activism more digital than physical
Read More »A Web-Fomented Protest On Wall Street Is Louder Online Than Off
A modest, recession-inspired demonstration grabs plenty of online attention. Is the future of activism more digital than physical
Read More »A Web-Fomented Protest On Wall Street Is Louder Online Than Off
A modest, recession-inspired demonstration grabs plenty of online attention. Is the future of activism more digital than physical?
Read More »BART Toed A Blurry Legal Line In Blocking Cell Service To Thwart A Demonstration
Last week, BART blocked mobile phone services for several hours to disperse a demonstration they claimed was going to turn violent. Was it legal? The FCC is now asking
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