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Category Archives: Science & Technology
June 19, 2013
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San Francisco Mulls Telework Mandate
There are a lot of reasons to embrace teleworking: a better work-life balance, cutting out a polluting and unhealthy commute, saving money on office real estate and gas, and even boosting productivity. Given the advantages, we’d like to see more … Continue reading
June 18, 2013
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Is India About to Jump on the Shale Energy Bandwagon?
After two months of delays, India is expected to release a much-anticipated national policy on shale gas policy any day now. It’s about time; as the Diplomat reports, there is a lot to be gained from the extraction of the resource: As … Continue reading
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Nieto Promises Pemex Reforms
President Nieto isn’t wavering in his commitment to reform Pemex, Mexico’s national oil firm. Though he estimated the specifics won’t be sussed out for another “two to three months,” he told the FT that he remains confident the reforms “will be transformational.” … Continue reading
June 17, 2013
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Siemens Shutters Solar Sector
Ain’t no sunshine when Siemens is gone: The massive German multinational is getting out of the solar business after posting a loss of more than $1 billion in its two years of operation. The engineering company is a world leader … Continue reading
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Global Telework on the Rise
Roughly 20 percent of the world’s workforce works from home at least once a week. Via Meadia’s telework coverage often focuses on the American experience, but remote working is frequently generating more success stories abroad. According to research done by … Continue reading
June 16, 2013
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Overpopulation Rears Its Ugly Head
The UN commissars of doom and gloom have just armed themselves with a new statistic: according to a recent study, world population is on track to reach a higher level than anyone realized. The new report predicts that the earth will hold … Continue reading
June 15, 2013
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Are They Fools? Public Acceptance of Digital Surveillance
The other day we noted a Pew poll which indicated that a majority of Americans was comfortable with the recently-revealed NSA surveillance program as long as it kept them safe–an outlook we attributed to a Jacksonian mindset. Well, it turns … Continue reading
June 14, 2013
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New Front in Cyberwar: Hospitals?
A number of medical devices are vulnerable to cyberattacks that could render them ineffective or worse, according to recent studies. Now regulations are underway that would require manufacturers to build cybersecurity features into their devices before recieving FDA approval. The Washington … Continue reading
June 13, 2013
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SCOTUS Strikes Down Gene Patents
Today’s Supreme Court ruling that naturally occurring human genes are not patentable may be the most important of the year so far. The unanimous decision reversed a lower court’s judgment that a company could hold patents on individual genes, effectively … Continue reading
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Graphene: The Gift That Keeps on Giving
Scientists may have found a way to power electronic devices with just a fraction of the energy they currently use, and it’s all thanks to graphene, a much-hyped material with some remarkable properties. Graphene has been hailed as a “miracle … Continue reading
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The Grey Lady Acknowledges Global Warming Slowdown
Earth’s surface temperatures aren’t rising at the rate scientists predicted. It’s yet another example of how quickly our understanding of the Earth’s climate is changing, and a major blow to the green movement, which has aggressively pushed these predictions to … Continue reading
June 12, 2013
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Asian Governments, Businesses to Employees: Stop Using Gmail!
Countries in Asia are even more nervous about using big American tech companies like Google or Yahoo, thanks to the NSA’s leaked data collection program. Officials in Japan, Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore once relied on mail services from Google and … Continue reading
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Cyber Crime Is the Biggest Threat to Britain’s Banks
What is the biggest threat facing Britain’s banks? The euro crisis? Another economic downturn in the U.K.? Neither, according to Andrew Haldane, director of financial stability for the Bank of England. All five of Britain’s largest banks told him that hacking and … Continue reading
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Russia’s Gazprom “Spectacularly Mismanaged”
Russia already has the world’s largest reserves of conventional natural gas and is the world’s largest gas exporter. So more could hardly be a bad thing for Moscow, right? According to the EIA, Russia has the ninth-largest technically recoverable shale gas … Continue reading
June 11, 2013
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The World Is Swimming in Shale
Nearly a third of the world’s technically recoverable natural gas and 10 percent of its oil can be found in shale formations, according to a new report by the Energy Information Administration. Thanks to fracking and horizontal drilling, there’s a bounty … Continue reading
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