Gizmodo:
Wow, this is great. The "Educate to Innovate" campaign will aim to improve U.S students' grounding in science, technology, engineering, and math education through $260 million in public-private partnerships, plus the first "National Lab Day" to update school science labs. The president also said he's introducing an annual W (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - U.S. Economy:
BY NOW it is a cliche that the United States has no more important bilateral relationship than that with China. Yet in the wake of President Obama's sometimes awkward visit to Beijing, it is becoming clear that, in one crucial respect, Sino-American relations are dysfunctional: Though umbilically...
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TechCrunch:
[UK] If you are a technology startup and want to network with Silicon Valley type then one way of doing it is to go to South By South West Interactive. Those who attend in the past have informally called it ‘Spring Break for Geeks’, but it is a little more significant that that suggests. Twitter took off in the US by launch (Read More)
VentureBeat:
South African firm Robonica hopes to conquer the hearts of gift givers this holiday season with hybrid entertainment that combines the interactivity of video games and the physical fun of toy robots.The company’s first product, Roboni-I, is a robot with two wheels that wanders around on its own. Since you can play games wit (Read More)
Mashable!:
Newspapers and traditional media have seen their world and their business models crumble before their very eyes. Newspaper revenues have plummeted by nearly 30% in the last year alone, while newspaper circulation numbers are in the toilet. The web is destroying outdated business models and replacing them with more efficien (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Yesterday we reviewed the past decade in online retailing. Today we look at some forward-looking statistics about e-commerce. In particular we analyze the upcoming holiday season and how online retailers can expect to fare. Amazon.com was founded in 1995, but it famously didn't make its first annual profit until 2003. Those (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
At the White House today, President Obama talked robots, hung out with the guys from MythBusters, and launched a campaign designed to create smarter, techier American kids."Reaffirming and strengthening America's role as the world's engine of scientific discovery and technological innovation is essential to meeting the chal (Read More)
VentureBeat:
The Gridwise Alliance, a nonprofit coalition of stakeholders developing the Smart Grid, signed a memorandum of understanding today with the International Engineering Consortium, to team up to make utilities more intelligent.Presumably, the Alliance will integrate its intelligent utilities curriculum integrated into the cont (Read More)
Crooks and Liars:
Since this is going to be a healthcare-themed kind of week, this is an interesting look at an Indian surgeon and entrepreneur who's making heart surgery affordable for even India's poorest - and whose facilities will be coming to us via a short plane ride. This very well may be the U.S. health care model of the future:BANG (Read More)
New York Times:
Conservatives and libertarians are joining civil liberties groups in saying that the criminal justice system is an aspect of big government that must be contained.
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New York Times:
New research suggests that oxytocin underlies the twin emotional pillars of civilized life, our capacity to feel empathy and trust.
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