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New visa proposal to help create the next big thing

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A proposal that will make it easier for foreign entrepreneurs in the US to start the next Google or Yahoo will be debated in the new year.
Congressman Jared Polis has proposed a start-up visa to entice “foreigners with good ideas” to stay in the US.
The issue has been gathering steam in [...]

Harnessing waste heat to produce electricity

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That heat emanating from your computer as you sit reading this article amounts to nothing more than wasted energy. And your computer is not alone. More than half of the energy consumed worldwide is wasted, most of it in the form of excess heat. But new research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology [...]

Goal of M.I.T. Electric Car Is 10-Minute Charge Time

A team of six undergraduates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has converted a 2010 Mercury Milan hybrid into a pure battery electric car.

Beyond the Biopsy: A Tiny Monitor for Cancer

DOCTORS doing a needle biopsy to analyze tissue for cancer may one day add a second step to the procedure: depositing a tiny device at the site to report on growth of a tumor — and even the effects of chemotherapy.

The Personas Project From MIT Is All Kinds Of Cool

Basically, it takes your name and searches the web for some context around it. It then takes the words and sites it finds to build a profile of your presence on the web.