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Cooking up carbon credits

August 13th, 2008 · No Comments

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(Fortune) — By any measure, it is a long way from the Park Avenue headquarters of JPMorgan Chase, the global investment bank that generated revenues of $100 billion last year, to the dusty streets of Kampala, Uganda, where a substandard woman can buy a new cook stove for with reference to $6.
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Robotic suit amplifies human strength

May 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Rex Jameson bikes and swims regularly, and plays tennis and skis when time allows.
But the 5-foot-11, 180-pound software scheme is lucky if he presses 200 pounds — that is, until he steps into an "exoskeleton" of aluminum and electronics that multiplies his strength and endurance as many as 20 times.
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Tiny chopper to fly over da Vinci’s birthplace

May 15th, 2008 · No Comments

A Japanese man who developed the world’s smallest helicopter will take flight in the birthplace of Leonardo da Vinci in tribute to the Renaissance genius’ original idea.
Gennai Yanagisawa, 75, said Thursday that a demonstration flight of his one-man helicopter is planned in the city of Vinci, near Florence, Italy, on May 25.
Yanagisawa developed [...]

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Colonel: Build military botnet as cyber weapon

May 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Hackers often harness the combined power of thousands of virus-infected personal computers to pump out spam e-mail or disable targeted servers via overwhelming them with Internet traffic.
Now an Air Force colonel is suggesting the U.S. military build its own "botnet," or network of remotely controlled computers, to be ready to attack the computer networks [...]

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Hello world!

May 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

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