A US investment management firm has divested of its holdings in Cisco, accusing the networking giant of failing to respond to human rights concerns, particularly in China, and lacking transparency.
Business
Jan 12, 2011
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Google on Wednesday began turning Android-powered smartphones into interpreters with experimental software that lets the handsets translate conversations in real time.
Software
Jan 12, 2011
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Using two NASA X-ray satellites, astronomers have discovered what drives the "heartbeats" seen in the light from an unusual black hole system. These results give new insight into the ways that black holes can regulate their ...
Astronomy
Jan 12, 2011
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Alexis Ohanian's company, Reddit, was based in New York four years ago when it decided to follow the yellow chip road to Northern California.
Business
Jan 12, 2011
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In a seeming blink of an eye, 3-D technology has advanced beyond imagination. Hollywood, TV manufacturers and video game makers say you have to see it to believe it. But the visual trickery that produces 3-D images can also ...
Other
Jan 12, 2011
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Researchers have developed a reactor that can rapidly produce fuel from sunlight, using carbon dioxide and water, plus a compound called ceric oxide.
Materials Science
Jan 12, 2011
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In a model network of friends and foes, relationships will evolve until everyone becomes friendly or the network splits into two hostile factions, researchers suggest in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National ...
Mathematics
Jan 12, 2011
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British entrepreneurs touting new technologies for concerns such as keeping tabs on addled elderly or trouble getting pregnant were courting Silicon Valley connections on Wednesday.
Business
Jan 12, 2011
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Bulk mixed metal oxide compounds are employed as industrial oxidation catalysts for many reactions, but there is still debate in the heterogeneous catalysis literature about the nature of their catalytic active sites as well ...
Materials Science
Jan 12, 2011
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Meet the credit card of the future.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Jan 12, 2011
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