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Bill Gates offers the world a physics lesson
Insight newsmaker In an interview, the Microsoft chairman talks about why he spent his own money to make a series of classic physics lectures available free on the Web, and shares on Project Natal, Google's Chrome OS and more.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Business applications, Consumer Technology, Battery, Bill Gates, Science, Video, biology, teacher, CNET Networks Inc.
Gates foundation to promote synthetic biology
News Most people associate E. coli with bad chicken, but researchers say the microbe can be used to produce new drugs.
Tags: Business applications
Embattled Yahoo opens office in the Philippines
Blogs It may no longer be the king of the Internet, but Yahoo still casts a long shadow here in the Philippines. It wasn't...
Green-tech venture funding jumps nearly 40 percent in 2008
News Solar captures lion's share of green-tech investments worldwide, bolstered by massive funding of thin-film solar companies, according to Cleantech Group report.
Tags: Green IT, Venture capital, Investments, Clean Technology, Venture Investment, Investment, Biodiesel, biology, electric vehicle, Indian Company
Is growing food the next green-tech innovation?
News Nicholas Parker, founder and chairman of the Cleantech Group, says investors and entrepreneurs are underestimating the need for technology to solve environmental problems.
Tags: Green IT, Clean Technology, Innovation, biology, Nicholas Parker, Renewable Energy, venture capital, food, carbon dioxide, industry
Scientists use virus to help build battery
News Researchers have used a genetically-modified virus to assemble materials for an energy-efficient battery, which they say could be used in hybrid cars.
Tags: Components, Battery, Carbon Nanotube, Nanotube, carbon nanotube network, biology, Power supplies, surge suppression, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, virus, scientist
IBM teams up with universities on cloud project
News The company joins forces with Carnegie Mellon, Qatar and Texas A&M universities to develop one of the first cloud computing platforms in the Middle East.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Software, Programming languages, IBM Corp., University, biology, Cloud Computing, Apache Hadoop, financial modeling
Scholars living in glasshouses
Blogs This is not about Alice in Wonderland but about a Singapore government scholar by the name of Eng Kai Er. It seems Eng, ...
Obama names science and technology team
News U.S. president-elect Barack Obama has named leaders in climate change, cancer research, and genetic research to head his science and technology team.
Tags: R&D, Defense/military, Federal Government, Politics, Science, Human Genome Project, Oregon State University, John Holdren, Eric Lander, Lubchenco
Tech to cure crop failure and look inside Einstein's mind?
News The British Computer Society has laid out the most pressing economic, environmental and social issues facing the world that it feels could be solved with technology within the next two decades.
Tags: Virtualization, Conference, computer science, motivation, computer disc, computer, Artificial Intelligence, virtual reality, information system, U.K.
IBM to research proteins with supercomputer
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IBM to research proteins with supercomputer
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New biotech research lab to open in M'sia
News Jointly established by InfoValley Life Sciences and Oracle Malaysia, the facility aims to build marketable bioinformatics solutions.
Tags: R&D
Horizon bags tenders worth S$5m from MOE
News Horizon Educom Pte Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of recently listed Horizon.com Ltd, has been awarded two Education Ministry tenders worth over S$5 million.
First long-distance HDTV images Webcast
News A high-definition television (HDTV) broadcast was sent over the Internet from Hawaii to California last week. Event organizers say it was the first time HDTV images were sent over an Internet protocol network to a location thousands of miles away.
