About 2,000 low-caste Hindu Indians bowed before orange-robed monks and recited prayers as they converted to Buddhism in a mass ceremony Sunday. Traditional Hindu society in India sets limits on economic and educational progress among those born in low-caste families. Dalits say they are routinely barred from entering temples and schools despite
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People are switching to Firefox fast as ever, while IE’s share drops every day!
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Yesterday, Tesla Motors received $561,000 for the development of a UL-approved 16 kw (medium-power) public commercial charging station from CARB. They say the technology “could be used to power up electric vehicles throughout the state of California.” Might we someday drive our Roadsters and WhiteStars to the Tesla station for a fill-up?
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On May 24, Sony unveiled what it is calling the world’s first flexible, full-color organic electroluminescent display (OLED) built on organic thin-film transistor (TFT) technology. OLEDs typically use a glass substrate, but Sony developed new technology for forming organic TFT on a plastic substrate, so they’re thin, lightweight and flexible.
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Judge Submits Official Recommendation to DEA Urging End to 40-Year Barrier to FDA-Approved Medical Marijuana Research
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Google’s uber-efficient use of power saves a lot of money AND energy; its servers
’ power supplies now run at 90% efficiency or better, cutting down the energy losses by a factor of four. Says Google, “We believe this energy-saving power supply technology can be applied to home computers, too.”
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A new approach to delivering in-flight wireless may debut this fall, at least in North America, that doesn
’t suffer from the previous attempt’s sky-high satellite transmission costs and expensive, heavy radio equipment, that together made the service unprofitable and unwieldy to deliver at a mass scale.
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A dainty solar-powered plane with wings the width of a giant Airbus will retrace exploits in aviation history, including Charles Lindbergh’s first ever transatlantic crossing, before a pioneering round-the-world flight in 2011, project leaders said Tuesday.
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The current standard taxi, Crown Victoria, gets about 14 mpg in the city. It’ll be replaced by a wide variety of new taxis, from Prius, to Ford Escape hybrid SUV. 13,000 Taxis is a lot to replace, but apparently a 20% per year churn is about what taxi companies deal with in New York, so, basically, every new cab they buy will have to be hybrid.
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The company plans to use its MiniPup GNU/ Linux distribution for low-cost computers in the sub-$100 price range.
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A third broadband pipe may be coming within two years to the white spaces between TV channels, but only if the FCC is convinced that it won’t interfere. The White Space Coalition is trying to prove that it won’t.
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A U.S. government- and industry-led coalition aiming to equip every car and roadside in America with wirelessly connected computers has tapped Linux for a prototype design. The Vehicle Infrastructure Integration Consortium (VII-C) hopes to lower driver death rates, reduce traffic jams, and media-enable cars before 2017.
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