Apps for Finding New Tunes, with a Little Help from Your Friends
Twitter #music, EQuala, and Piki help you share and discover new music with friends, but they’re not all winners.
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Battery Could Provide a Cheap Way to Store Solar Power
Combining aspects of high-energy lithium-sulfur batteries with flow battery technology can lower costs.
Can Carbon Capture Clean Up Canada’s Oil Sands?
Alberta will serve as a test bed for large-scale carbon capture and sequestration.
Honeypots Lure Industrial Hackers Into the Open
Dummy water-plant control systems rapidly attracted attention from hackers who tinkered with their settings—suggesting it happens to real industrial systems, too.
African Bus Routes Redrawn Using Cell-Phone Data
The largest-ever release of mobile-phone data yields a model for fixing bus routes.
Energy Department Backs New Way to Make Diesel from Corn
A novel chemical pathway could address the high cost of transporting cellulosic materials to make diesel fuel.
Google Fiber’s Ripple Effect
The threat of superfast Google Fiber is causing other Internet providers to crank up their own offerings.
Nanoscale Pressure Sensors Mimic Human Skin
New research shows how arrays of tiny electronic devices can achieve human-skin-like sensitivity to mechanical force.
Questions over Gene Patents Shake Diagnostics Industry
The impending Supreme Court ruling on gene patents is creating uncertainty in the molecular diagnostics sector.
Software Predicts Which Companies Are an Easy Sell
A former Yahoo search engineer raises funds to bring sophisticated data mining and modeling to the business world.
