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The 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to Daniel Schechtman of the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa.
Read More »Welcome To Apple Day, Microsoft Buries Zune, New Hope For Californian Rare Earths?, HTC To Issue Security Patch
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Apple To Make News Today . The Internet is gearing up for today's 1 PM EST Cupertino show, where Apple CEO Tim Cook is expected to get on stage and trot out some new hardware--and maybe
Read More »Why Frito-Lay Built The Cleanest Manufacturing Facility In The U.S.
Their new Arizona plant is a test case for every conceivable kind of sustainable upgrade to manufacturing.
Read More »Blekko, the Next Google?
Several investors, including some notable celebrities, are banking on the spam-free search engine to compete against Bing, Yahoo, and Google. Upstart search engine Blekko has closed a $30 million funding round in its quest to be the spam-free Google. Yandex, the most popular search engine in Russia, has invested $15 million and promised to share its servers and other technology
Read More »The Smallest Revolution: 5 Recent Breakthroughs in Nanomedicine
Nanotechnology is a cutting-edge advancement within science and engineering. It is not a single field but an intense collaboration between disciplines to manipulate materials on the atomic and molecular level.
Read More »Amazon Clouds Tablet Market in Advance of Apple Event
Like two blockbuster summer movies vying for the same audience Apple and Amazon are making major product announcements a week apart.
Read More »The Doctor Is Very In: Dr. James Truchard’s Quest For Endless Innovation
Dr. T cofounded the technology giant that is National Instruments out of his garage more than 35 years with a $10,000 loan. NI's software and hardware is behind robotics and smart cameras to medical diagnostic equipment.
Read More »Nissan’s Future Mind-Reading Cars Won’t Steer You Wrong
Forget self-driving cars ; Nissan and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland (EPFL) have teamed up to work on mind-reading vehicle technology. Truly hands-free driving may not be too far off. Thought control via brain machine interface isn't a new idea--EPFL researchers are already working on mind-reading wheelchair systems
Read More »Wrapp It Up: Spotify Founding CTO’s Startup Hopes To Cure Merchants’ Daily Deals Woes
A mobile app that lets people send gift cards to friends is not the work of a deals company. But it is using discounts to deliver customers--especially the specific demographics individual merchants want--into brick-and-mortar stores. Daily deals have exploded into a $4 billion industry almost overnight because there’s no shortage of merchants who would like to lure online customers into their real-world establishments.
Read More »The quantum world writ large: Using short optical pulses to study macroscopic quantum behavior
(PhysOrg.com) -- Einstein infamously dismissed quantum entanglement as spooky action at a distance and quantum uncertainty with his quip that God does not play dice with the universe. Aside from revealing his conceptual prejudices, Einsteins rejection of these now-established hallmarks of quantum mechanics point to the fields elusive nature: Coherent quantum mechanical phenomena, such as entanglement and superposition, are not apparent at macroscopic levels of scale.
Read More »Untangling Blockbuster And Dish Network’s Pricey Netflix Alternative
On Friday, Dish Network and Blockbuster held an event called "A Stream Come True," where many assumed the two companies would finally reveal what they've been working on since the acquisition five months ago. How would Dish revive Blockbuster, a badly bruised brand, to compete in such a crowded and competitive space? "When the technology changes, when the customer changes, you better change," began Dish Network CEO Joe Clayton Friday.
Read More »Engineers to Rappel Down Cracked Washington Monument
By Molly O'Toole WASHINGTON, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Engineers plan to rappel [More]
Read More »Generation of spin current by acoustic wave spin pumping
Tohoku University, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) announced on August 22, 2011 that Kenichi Uchida, a PhD student, and Professor Eiji Saitoh of Tohoku University and their colleagues have succeeded in injecting spin current into a magnetic material by acoustic wave spin pumping.
Read More »Former Apple CEO John Sculley On The Future Of Medical Technology And Health Care’s Killer App
John Sculley has had a diverse career by any measure--he has served as president of PepsiCo, CEO of Apple (where he famously championed the tablet computer in the 1980s), and more recently, chairman of Watermark Medical, a medical products company that has developed an in-home sleep apnea diagnostic device). Sculley is also working with Audax Health Solutions , a startup that has developed a personal health management platform with a gamification layer that allows users to compete with friends and collect points and badges. We caught up with Sculley at this year's Body Computing Conference --an event that brings together doctors, designers, programmers, entrepreneurs, journalists, and members of the entertainment industry to preview the future of high-tech health care--to learn more about his thoughts on the future of health care technology
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