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150,000 take FCC broadband speed test in first week
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Written by Daniel   
Friday, 19 March 2010 17:36
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From Ars Technica

The FCC has had it with ISPs. For more than a decade, the agency has relied on ISP reports to get a picture of broadband speeds and availability in the US, and the results have been uniformly terrible. The ISPs don't want to report numbers detailed enough to be useful, so the feds finally dropped a pile of cash on the table last year to do some proper broadband mapping.

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New Lithium-ion Anode Uses Nanocomposites for Better Battery Performance
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Written by Daniel   
Tuesday, 16 March 2010 17:58
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From Daily Tech

The number of uses for nanocomposite materials is staggering. The material has been the source of some revolutionary breakthroughs in many areas of research. One of the most beneficial places for nanocomposite materials has been in battery research.

 

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Online freedom gets killed by BPI (UK)
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Written by Danrok   
Friday, 12 March 2010 17:34
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From The Inquirer:

THE OPEN RIGHTS GROUP has discovered that plans to block websites and filesharing sites for copyright infringment came from the BPI, the body responsible for representing copyright holders.

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Google-China resolution coming 'soon,' says CEO
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Written by Daniel   
Wednesday, 10 March 2010 19:06
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From C/Net News

Google's negotiations with the Chinese government over censorship and Internet search should produce a resolution "soon," Google CEO Eric Schmidt said Wednesday.

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MIT Researchers Discover New Electricity Production Method
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Written by Daniel   
Monday, 08 March 2010 19:01
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From Daily Tech


The storage and generation of electricity is a hotbed of scientific study around the world.

New and improved methods of storing electricity have a myriad of potential uses from phones and laptops that run longer to new electric vehicles with much greater driving range.

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It takes a village (of scientists) to reinvent energy
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Written by Daniel   
Friday, 05 March 2010 19:08
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From C/Net News

National Harbor, Md.--Attending the ARPA-E Summit this week was sort of like roaming the halls of clean-tech high school, one investor quipped when I asked him what he thought of the conference. It's an analogy that holds up pretty well.

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