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Catch up on green technology with eco-friendly computing, gadgets, electronics, research & innovations news.

  • Car makers want to put kids behind the wheel

    Mon, Jun 17, 2013 6:41 PM

    by Jenn Savedge

    Porsche and Toyota roll out new car models aimed at kids as young as 5.

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  • Scientists study the physics of NBA flopping

    Tue, Jun 18, 2013 3:15 PM by Russell McLendon

    Thanks to a $100K grant from Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, biomechanics researchers will investigate the practice of 'flopping' in basketball and soccer.

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  • Meet Cheetah-cub, one of the fastest robots ever built

    Tue, Jun 18, 2013 12:58 PM by Jillian Scharr, TechNewsDaily

    The robot was designed without exterior sensors, forcing it rely entirely on its structure and internal sensors to stay balanced.

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  • Find the cleanest, safest beaches with updated Swim Guide app

    Tue, Jun 18, 2013 11:12 AM by John Platt

    The free app covers 5,000 beaches across North America.

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  • Your cellphone could be a sonar device

    Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:51 AM by Jesse Emspak, TechNewsDaily

    Enabling echolocation on cellphones could help authorities locate people more precisely.

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  • Chicago named city with most adrenaline junkies in America

    Mon, Jun 17, 2013 3:19 PM by Jim Motavalli

    A new national survey reveals the country's top thrill-seeking cities.

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  • Atomic clock to become even more accurate

    Mon, Jun 17, 2013 11:20 AM by Katia Moskvitch, LiveScience

    New optical atomic clocks could be 100 times more precise than the current microwave-based ones.

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  • Atomic weights for 5 elements are adjusted

    Mon, Jun 17, 2013 11:06 AM by Megan Gannon, LiveScience

    The new intervals may cause some confusion for chemistry students trying to decide which atomic-weight values to use when making precise calculations.

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  • Google launches Internet-beaming balloons

    Mon, Jun 17, 2013 10:13 AM

    Video: Google tests giant balloons to connect 50 New Zealand homes to the Internet. It says the technology could bring websurfing to remote corners of the world.

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  • More than content: What future metadata will reveal about you

    Mon, Jun 17, 2013 9:49 AM by Jillian Scharr, TechNewsDaily

    The information that can be legally obtained about your communications will increase as new technologies emerge.

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  • Solar Impulse to make stop in Cincinnati

    Fri, Jun 14, 2013 2:10 PM by Denise Chow, LiveScience

    The innovative plane continues its journey across the United States using only the sun for fuel.

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  • Microsoft stores to pop up in 500 Best Buy locations

    Fri, Jun 14, 2013 10:22 AM by Lisa Eadicicco, LAPTOP

    Dubbed the Windows Store, each mini shop will be staffed with Best Buy blue shirt employees that have been trained on Microsoft’s product line.

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  • Supreme Court rules against gene patenting

    Fri, Jun 14, 2013 9:56 AM

    Video: On Thursday a unanimous Supreme Court said Myriad Genetics of Utah was not eligible to patent genes because it did not create those genes: nature did, and nature cannot be patented.

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  • Finding solutions to smartphone theft

    Fri, Jun 14, 2013 9:30 AM

    Video: CNN's Samuel Burke reports on new ways police and companies are working to protect against rising smartphone theft.

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  • The big rigs run on natural gas

    Thu, Jun 13, 2013 9:15 PM by Jim Motavalli

    Frito-Lay is running more than 200 natural gas trucks and installing stations. A waste hauler in Connecticut has already pumped a million gallons of the stuff. At half the price of diesel (and with greatly reduced emissions), CNG and LNG are taking over the trucking business.

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  • Route 66: St. Louis to Tulsa on a tank of gas

    Thu, Jun 13, 2013 11:56 AM by Melissa Hincha-Ownby

    This blogger and her sister were tasked with driving a stretch of historic Route 66 on a single tank of gas in the new Ford Fusion Energi plugin hybrid.

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