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Google has put a billion computing cores at the disposal of the academic community. The Google Exacycle program aims to stimulate science and engineering research by allowing researchers to run huge simulations, with the aim of boosting innovative R&D breakthroughs. The level of computing power on offer from Google is off the scale, even compared [...]
Having a university within ten miles of your city can be a long-lasting booster for the economy. But what happens if you have a goliath such as MIT on your doorstep? For 150 years? Cambridge in America got to find out… “Since its arrival here, the MIT campus has more than tripled in size to [...]
The world’s first privately owned spaceship attempts a launch into orbit tomorrow. The Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket have been built by SpaceX, founded by PayPal’s Elon Musk. SpaceX has a $1.6 billion contract to undertake twelve re-supply missions to the International Space Station. Other commercial firms such as Virgin Galactic have achieved suborbital [...]
The city of Tel Aviv has undergone a renaissance, reports the City Journal, despite all the problems that surround it. Only founded in 1909, the city is now a powerful economy in its own right — based on an ingrained free-market libertarianism that has nurtured some of the world’s best high-tech start-ups. It is predominantly [...]
256 miles on one gallon of gas! A Los Angeles Times reporter takes the X Prize-winning vehicle for a spin.
Facebook, Amazon and Kleiner Perkins have started a $250 Million fund for social innovation ideas… “Amazon will offer up one year of Amazon Web Services to the entrepreneurs, Facebook will provide early access to its platform and APIs, Zynga plans to host sessions for sFund companies for advice on technology and business management, and Comcast [...]
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