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Russia and Iran take double hits from lower oil prices and sanctions
West Texas Intermediate Crude oil is at $81 per barrel. Brent crude oil is at $86 per barrel. Previously there up in the $105-115 per barrel range. Prices a few years ago were as high as $130 per...
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China plans to have 95% broadband coverage by 2015 at 20-100 Mbps
Kitty Fok, IDC China Managing Director, talked about “Broadband China” project and Chinese government’s strategy to support local integrated-circuit (IC) industry.* The 13th Five-Year Plan, starting in...
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10 Teraflops per FGPA chip and 100 GFlops per watt
Altera Corporation is a pioneer of programmable logic solutions and enabling systems. They are a leader with FPGAs.The field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is a semiconductor device that can be...
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Tesla has sold fifty thousand model S electric cars
The Tesla Model S sold its 50,000th car almost as fast as the far cheaper Nissan LeafThe Tesla S has starting price of $70,000-plus and compare that the Leaf's base MSRP is just a bit over $30,000...
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China could maintain longterm GDP growth in the 5-6% range with successful...
One analysis of China's economic reform concludes that China could still achieve 6% GDP growth in 2020. However, if economic reform fails then China would slow to 3% per year GDP growth or worse.We...
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Ocean current changes responsible for some ice ages and climate effects
Rutgers researchers have found that circulation of the ocean plays an equally important role in regulating the earth’s climate as the atmosphere.In their study, the researchers say the major cooling of...
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Comparing Electric Car Monthly Lease Costs with Apple iPhones with Family Plans
It is possible to find electric cars with monthly lease costs of $69-99 per month. These are usually leftovers from a prior year. Early in 2014, some Mitsubishi dealers went as low as $69 per month...
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Dog Cloning for Tibetan Mastiffs Today and for Perfectly Marbled Ribeyes and...
Hwang Woo Suk runs the only facility [Sooam Research of Korea] on earth that clones dogs for customers willing to pay $100,000. He led the team that cloned the first dog in 2005, and he’s produced more...
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Canada's Oilsand costs beat US tight oil in Texas and North Dakota
Scotiabank research had an analysis of crude oil production costs in Canada and the United states. Saskatchewans Bakken oil is the cheapest at $44 per barrel. Canada's oilsands are $60-65 per barrel...
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Future of Work - Limo drivers, Limo Passengers and Business Jet Passengers
Those who work at Uber typically make far more money than those who drive for Uber.The benefits and actual jobs have a huge difference Also, the future prospects for the category of work is an...
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Test Version of Planetary Resources Space telescope Scheduled to Launch Today
Planetary Resources is a leader in developing asteroid mining. More than 1,500 are as easy to reach as the Moon and are in similar orbits as Earth. Asteroids are filled with precious resources,...
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Carnival of Nuclear Energy 232
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 232 is up at Fukushima CommentaryNuke Power Talk – The Grid and Solar Power: Getting the Incentives RightGail Marcus looks at how some of the pricing rules for solar...
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Carnival of Space 377
The Carnival of Space 377 is up at Everyday SpacerThe Meridiani Journal - MESSENGER takes first images of ice near Mercury’s north poleRead more »
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Without more intervention the world is on track to stop Ebola in 2016 after...
A new model by David Fisman and Ashleigh Tuite of the University of Toronto in Canada– the first to take account of efforts to fight infections – suggests that if things continue as they have been up...
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Crafting a HeroX Xprize for Cheaply and Quickly Stopping Ebola
Ebola is running rampant over West Africa and Yale and Toronto Epidemiologists forecast that there could be 1.75 million cases before it burns out in 2016. This includes current levels of intervention...
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Ebola Survivors sign up to work at Treatment Units
Ebola survivors like Camara are joining an association in Guinea that assists the growing number of people who recover and seeks ways for them to help combat the disease.Survivors are believed to have...
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Spacex will attempt to land Falcon 9 boost December 9th on a floating...
Elon Musk spoke at the MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics Department's 2014 Centennial celebration. The October 22-24 Centennial Symposium featuring some of the most illustrious names in aerospace...
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New Multicore Optical Fiber allows for 21 times more bandwidth
Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands and the University of Central Florida (CREOL) in the USA, have successfully transmitted at a record high 255 Terabits per...
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Virtual cores and virtual threaded chips could boost chip performance by 4...
Soft Machines (startup with $125 million in funding and working with Samsung and AMD) developed new VISC™ (Virtual Instruction Set Computing) Architecture (19 page presentation)Soft Machines...
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