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Can the World’s Telecoms Slash Their Energy Consumption 1,000-Fold?
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Tech companies, government agencies and academics are uniting to develop the technology needed to increase global telecommunications networks’ energy efficiency
The unbridled success of wireless networks for Internet access and beyond has brought mobile telecommunications to remote areas of Africa, safety to many a driver stranded roadside, and worldwide mobility to professionals who were [...]
Next-generation TMOS displays closer to mass production
Uni-Pixel, a company based in Woodlands, Texas, has announced it is about to start mass production of a thin-film to be used in time-multiplexed optical shutter (TMOS) displays, a next-generation display technology that exploits retinal persistence in the human eye and promises significantly better performance than CRT, LCD and OLED displays with, among other things, [...]
Locusts give up aerodynamic secrets of insect flight
It seems that locusts, the bane of farmers the world over, have served some purpose after all.
Our One-Party Democracy
There is only one thing worse than one-party autocracy, and that is one-party democracy, which is what we have in America today.
Sound could be the key in building tomorrow’s nanostructures
As shown with lab-on-a-chip devices, sound is proving a great way to manipulate small objects











































