- Bill Gates Spreads his Battery Bets on Aquion
Aquion Energy lands $35 million to commercialize its novel grid-storage battery, bringing in Bill Gates as investor.
When it comes to disruptive battery startups, one of the best endorsements you can get comes from software tycoon Bill Gates.
- The Paper-and-Pencil Cosmological Calculator
Ever struggled with the problem of converting redshift into parsecs, your worries are over thanks to a new cosmological distance chart based on the very latest data
- A Data-Crunching Prize to Cut Flight Delays
A contest to improve flight arrival estimates is the first step in a plan to automate in-flight decisions.
A team from Singapore is taking home a $100,000 prize for developing an algorithm that could help airlines better predict flight arrival times and reduce passenger delays. The contest was sponsored by General Electric and Alaska Airlines.
- Can Barnes & Noble Save the Book?
It’s looking grim.
I can be something of a Luddite, for a technology blogger. I recently jilted my iPhone. It took me ages to buy a Kindle, and I was a holdout on the iPad until I received a hand-me-down copy. And while I’ve come to love my iPad for short-form reading and TV streaming, and even for the occasional mid-length magazine piece, I simply can’t stand reading books digitally. I find my Kindle (and Kindle app) useful for downloading free books, or books I merely want to scan for research. But when I want to be drawn into the world of a story, when I want the full aesthetic experience a book can give me, I still want paper in my hands.
- Obama Announces First Funding for Brain Mapping Project
A plan to map the activity of entire brain regions down to the level of indvidual neurons got its official nod from the White House on Tuesday when President Obama announced his budget will request $100 million in funding for the project in 2014.
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