VentureBeat:
IBM said today that it has made significant progress toward making a computer that simulates and emulates the brain’s abilities to sense, perceive, interact, and recognize.It can also do so using the brain’s low-power energy (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Santiago, Chile-based Austral Capital is one of a growing number of Latin American VC firms making names for themselves. Thanks to aggressive support from the Chilean government, the less than two-year old company has funded (Read More)
CNN:
Yes, I'm one of those "twilight people." I've become increasingly aware of how that makes me look and I simply don't care. I fell in love with a love story and I've made hundreds of online friends that share my love for this (Read More)
CNET News.com:
AT&T Labs in San Francisco opens its doors to show off its Emerging Devices division, as well as some research projects around location-based services, social networking, and medical devices of the future. (Read More)
New York Times:
Research projects in the Bay Area involve clean tech and bio-tech, and one focuses on the potential collapse of the Sacramento Delta levees in an earthquake.
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Pune-Cities-The Times of India:
Some city-based institutes of higher learning have started making moves for collaborative academic and research projects with leading universities in the US. (Read More)
CNN:
The Internet has turned 40 years old this week, with its beginnings occurring at 9pm on October 29th, 1969. On that day, engineers at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and Stanford Research Institute (SRI) nearl (Read More)
New York Times:
California’s stem cell research program awarded most of the $230 million in grants to projects using so-called adult stem cells.
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VentureBeat:
Choosing Google’s Mountain View, Calif. campus as the venue for another big federal cleantech announcement, Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu launched a $151 million round of government grants for unusual, clearly hig (Read More)
New York Times:
The Energy Department will award grants to radical ideas that may have a major impact — like bacteria that make gasoline and enzymes that capture carbon dioxide.
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ReadWriteWeb:
In the last two posts in this series, we discussed the Web of data, which makes structured interlinked data sets machine-accessible, and the Web of identities, which makes data about people machine-accessible while addressing (Read More)
India Times:
US President Barack Obama on Friday named Arun Majumdar as the first Director of the US Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). (Read More)
India Times:
Indian American technocrat Arun Majumdar has been appointed as the Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy in the US Department of Energy. (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Little knew Leonard Kleinrock that the first network connection at his UCLA lab was going to bring us this mayhem of tweets and tits we call the internet. It was all about the possibility of total thermonuclear holocaust, bac (Read More)
timesofindia.indiatimes.com:
Contrary to perceptions that IITs are not doing enough research, IIT-Delhi has earned over Rs.102 crore in a year from research projects -- more than what the government gives it as annual grant. (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Joule Biotechnologies burst out of stealth today with a recipe for a new alternative fuel source — a recipe calling for greenhouse gases and sunlight. Dubbed “helioculture,” the process actually centers on microorganisms. It (Read More)