Beer Sheba, Israel — Think of that thing in the picture as an MRI for vegetable matter. Professor Zeev Weisman and a team of researchers at Ben Gurion University here have adopted a low-power nuclear magnetic resonance device (NMR) along with predictive analysis software to scan olives, castor pods and pomegranate seeds to help fuel [...]
U.S. presidents since Richard Nixon have expressed the need for U.S. energy independence. The balance of U.S. energy dependence has only gotten worse since then. The current administration appears well-meaning in jump-starting the U.S. clean energy economy in the face of massive incumbent and infrastructure inertia. Some tidbits from Obama’s energy speech today: “We cannot [...]
Wasted Time R, Wikicommons Before even moving into the governor’s seat in Wisconsin and turning his state into a battlefield over unions’ rights, Scott Walker campaigned on rejecting $810 million in federal funds for a high-speed rail line that would have connected Milwaukee to Madison. He got his wish: The U.S. Department of Transportation gladly [...]
The world changes in a moment, according to Ray Anderson. A female executive from a large customer once visited Interface, the multibillion dollar carpet manufacturer founded by Anderson, with the express purpose of seeing Interface’s achievements in sustainable manufacturing in action. Since 1996, Interface has reduced fossil fuel consumption by 60 percent and total energy [...]
Echelon Corporation announced on Thursday that its energy control networking solutions will be added to Direct Grid micro-inverters for large commercial and utility-scale projects. The integration will allow for better remote management and control and improved diagnostics. San Jose-based Echelon is best known for power line networking equipment and other building management systems, but it [...]
See the full press release here. Greentech Media, the industry leader for news, market research and conferences in the green technology business-to-business market, announces open registration for The Networked Grid 2011 on May 3-4, 2011 in San Francisco, CA at the Mission Bay Conference Center. The Networked Grid 2011 is Greentech Media’s premier two-day summit [...]
Seder Boqer, Israel — It’s like a concentrating solar PV system on growth hormones. ZenithSolar has begun to tout a CPV/solar hot water system that it says will produce over 2 kilowatts of electricity and the equivalent of 5 kilowatts of solar hot water. The system consists of a mirrored dish that concentrates the equivalent [...]
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San Francisco, Calif. — We are reporting from an IQPC energy storage event attended by a cross-section of the grid industry from utilities to regulators to the DOE to energy storage technologists. There are even representatives from a few solar firms like First Solar and Solon. But the question asked in the title of this [...]
One year after the initial launch of Windows Phone 7, Microsoft decided to share some stats about the platform on its Windows Phone Developer Blog. Looking at the cold, hard numbers only, the stats look like this: 11,500 apps for the platform (7,500 are paid apps) and 36,000 developers (with 1,200 newly registered developers every [...]
Google is rolling out five dramatically new ways to view blog posts on Blogger, in an attempt to change the typical way people consume content on the web. Starting Thursday, visitors to Blogger-hosted blogs will discover new viewing options if they type “/view” at the end of a blog’s URL (e.g. http://cookingwithamy.blogspot.com/view). Unlike traditional blog [...]
Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on four particular stories of interest today. Google Launches +1 Button Google is making a big push into social with a new feature called “+1” [...]
Facebook has released a new tool that lets users convert their personal profile into a Facebook Page. Though the terminology is often muddled, a key difference between the two features is that users can simply “like” a Page while they must “friend” (establish a mutual relationship with) a profile, which makes Pages a much better [...]
Microsoft plans to launch an antitrust complaint Thursday in Brussels against Google, alleging that the company is using its search engine to unfairly promote its products. This is nothing new for Google, as the European Commission already opened an antitrust investigation against the company for that same reason in November 2010, while several smaller companies [...]
Have you ever seen kids on the train with their heads pressed together to share one set of headphones? Well, a new app has come on the scene to remedy that rather unhygienic situation. MyStream is a new, free app [iTunes link] for the iPhone (soon available on the iPad) that allows music fans to [...]
Shane Snow is a Mashable contributor and the co-founder of Contently.com. At my current startup, we recently confronted an interesting challenge: How do you grow a two-sided marketplace without frustrating early users? Testing with real customers is incredibly important in the beginning stages. But when your business facilitates interactions between buyers and sellers, a chicken-and-egg [...]
Everyone has at least one free-spirited friend who says they will never get an iPad, who rants about how the sheer luxury of such a device is insulting when juxtaposed with all the misery in the world, how it reduces tactile paper and words to marketable pixels, how, well, they don’t have the capital to [...]
Chevrolet, eager to cultivate a fan base on social media, plans to introduce its all-new 2013 Malibu via its Facebook page next month. On April 18 at 8:30 p.m. EDT, the General Motors brand plans to simultaneously reveal the new model at the Shanghai Auto Show and on Chevrolet’s Facebook Page. The reveal will also [...]
Social shopping site Fashism released a stylish, albeit somewhat faulty new version of its iPhone app this week. The app is designed to help users solicit and give real-time feedback to Fashism’s fashion-conscious community on the go. Many users often snap photos of themselves before heading out to school or work, or while trying on [...]
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Farewell, QuickBar–I didn’t need to know about Disney pickup lines anyway. (Credit: Screenshot by Caroline McCarthy/CNET) The only real surprise is that it took this long: Twitter has released an update to its iPhone app that eradicates the QuickBar, a pop-up display of rotating “trending topics” that users seemed to find almost universally annoying and [...]
Google has introduced 5 new dynamic templates in Blogger. View any Blogger blog as a Flipcard, Mosaic, Sidebar, Snapshot and Timeslide. Discover a new way for blog interaction. Blogger Dynamic View Templates This video will introduce you to the new Blogger designs Some of the major highlights of these blog designs are Infinite scrolling (read more posts without having [...]
Audio-Technica’s ATH-ANC32 noise-canceling earbuds are now available, featuring an inline volume control and active noise cancellation circuitry. Audio gear maker Audio-Technica is looking to step up its game in the consumer headphone arena, announcing that its new ATH-ANC23 QuietPoint active noise-canceling earbuds are now available online and via retailers. The ATH-ANC23′s feature an inline volume [...]
Killing the QR Code Earlier this month, Mike Blumenthals of the “Understanding Google Maps Local Search” blog noticed that business owners could no longer create a printable QR Code for their listing in Google Places. These codes had previously been used by merchants in advertising, on business cards, posters, signage and anywhere else a business [...]
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Both Reuters and WSJ reported that Baidu, China’s largest search engine, is shutting down Youa, its e-commerce subsidiary. Existing merchants have one month to migrate to either Rakuten China or Yaodian 100. The reports were different in mood, though. Reuters wrote that Youa’s shut down highlighted Alibaba’s Taobao leadership position in the market. The report [...]
Ever wanted to see through your LCD display? Samsung has begun mass production on 22-inch transparent LCDs that use one tenth the power of traditional LCDs. Sure, they might prove to be little more than a fad for stores looking for some unusual digital signage, but Samsung has begun mass production on 22-inch transparent LCD [...]
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When Twitter rolled out an update to its iPhone app earlier this month, it included a new feature that quickly became the bane of most upgraders’ experience. The QuickBar permanently hovered at the top of your tweet-stream, giving you a real-time update of trending topics. After resoundingly negative feedback that included the new label by [...]
(click image for larger view)If the Direct Project’s objectives continue to be advanced at a fast clip, widespread adoption of universal addressing and access to secure direct messaging of health information could soon be provided to healthcare stakeholders that serve up to 160 million Americans. Those are the latest figures from officials at the Direct [...]
(click image for larger view and for slideshow) Under terms of Google’s settlement Wednesday with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over charges it violated user privacy with its Buzz social networking service, Google will undergo third-party privacy audits for the next two decades and implement a comprehensive privacy program. The FTC charged Google with using [...]
(click image for larger view)The network NASA uses to control the International Space Station and Hubble Telescope has unpatched vulnerabilities that could be exploited over the Internet, NASA’s inspector general warned in a new report. The risk of an attack is real, according to the report. In 2009 alone, hackers stole 22 GB of export-restricted [...]
(click image for larger view)The Montana Senate has voted to restore $35 million in federal incentives for electronic health records (EHRs) for hospitals and community health centers across Montana. The Senate voted 45-5 for the motion on Monday. The Montana legislature had four times denied, on party-line votes, the state’s Department of Public Health and [...]
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Digital technology and the Internet aren’t for early adopters and tweens anymore. That’s great, but it’s led to a new problem for a lot of grown-ups: They’ve become the first line of tech support for their parents. For most people, debugging someone else’s problem — usually done remotely — is an exercise in exasperation. Especially [...]
What causes a Twitter direct message to show up in my public Twitter feed? Sending a message directly to a fellow Twitter follower is easy enough — just type a D before the username. But it can be just as easy to forget to include the D. Messages without the D before the username appear [...]
Bill Brady/Bill Brady Photography Every wonder why photos of the delicacies at your cookout don’t look like the shots in food magazines? The reason, says food-photo pro Bill Brady is because when it comes to those magazine shots, “Most of it is fake.” Those coals aren’t glowing — you’re seeing florescent paint. The smoke is [...]
The Times reporter Miguel Helft explains the recent legal decision on Google’s digital book project and Kevin Poulsen discusses the dark side of the Internet and his new book “Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion Dollar Cyber Crime Underground.” Segments (time on counter)News (34:33)Miguel Helft on Google Books (26:16)Aluratek Bump Speakers (18:02)Kevin Poulsen [...]
It’s a logistical nightmare. At any moment there are several phones, computers, video game systems and other small electronics strewn around the floor of my home office, and many more in every other part of the house. As if that weren’t enough stuff, my family has too many other things: I’m a sucker for cooking [...]
Your lamentations have been heard, Android owners. Amazon has created the store for Android apps that Google could not. The Amazon Appstore, which had its debut last week, sells only Android apps for now and does not yet serve ATT customers. But for Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile customers, the service is a step forward, even [...]
The report said it was unclear whether the changes in the brain — an increase in glucose metabolism after using the phone for less than an hour — had any negative health or behavioral effects. But it has many people wondering what they can do to protect themselves short of (gasp) using a landline. “Cellphones [...]
