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With Amazon Atop the Cloud, Big Tech Rivals Are Giving Chase
[Business]
2015/04/28 11:08
Amazon unveiled the financial performance of its powerful growth engine for the first time on Thursday, and the numbers sure looked pretty — especially compared with big companies like Microsoft and Google that are chasing it.While Amazon is primarily known as an online retailer, its revenue and its stock market returns for years have been energized by an entirely different kind of commerce: r...
(Video) Audi Just Created Diesel Fuel from Air and Water
[Tech]
2015/04/28 11:07
Audi is making a new fuel for internal combustion engines that has the potential to make a big dent when it comes to climate change – that's because the synthetic diesel is made from just water and carbon dioxide.The company's pilot plant, which is operated by German startup Sunfire in Dresden, produced its first batches of the "e-diesel" this month. German Federal Minister of Education and Re...
MIT - Implantable Device Could Allow for Better-Targeted Cancer Treatment
[Tech]
2015/04/28 11:06
Implantable device could allow doctors to test cancer drugs in patients before prescribing chemotherapy.More than 100 drugs have been approved to treat cancer, but predicting which ones will help a particular patient is an inexact science at best.A new device developed at MIT may change that. The implantable device, about the size of the grain of rice, can carry small doses of up to 30 differen...
Here's How Warren Buffett Sees the Stock Market
[Investing]
2015/04/28 11:05
After closing at 5,048 back in March 2000, the Nasdaq took more than 15 years to close above that level, closing at 5,056 on Thursday to make a new record closing high. During the day on Thursday, the S&P 500 also breached an intraday record high. [click to enlarge]And while it's been a long road for some investors, even those who got into the market at the absolute top of the tech bubble h...
Will the Whill Hi-Tech Wheelchair Sell ?
[Product]
2015/04/28 11:03
A Japanese startup is betting that an aging population of tech savvy first adopters will want their super-wheelchair.[Whill To Rule: A wheelchair designed with techies in mind can make tight maneuvers.]A Japanese startup founded by former automotive engineers wants to turn the wheelchair into an accessory for the tech savvy. Their company, Whill, is building a “personal mobility device” that...
(PDF) The Best Potential Ways To Earn Between $200,000 and $300,000 A Year
[Consumer]
2015/04/27 11:10
The quickest way to earn between $200,000 and $300,000 a year may be to become an expatriate in Asia.China has the highest income growth potential for expats. It ranks first in the Expat Economics league tables, with nearly a quarter (24%) of expats earning more than US $300,000. [click to enlarge]And Australians working in Asia are the highest-earning expatriates in the world, according to HSB...
Sony Offered Daniel Craig $5M to Use Their Smartphone, But He Resisted
[Business]
2015/04/27 11:09
Sony offered James Bond star Daniel Craig a $5 million fee to put the forthcoming Sony Xperia Z4 smartphone in the forthcoming film Spectre, but Craig and Spectre director Sam Mendes resisted because "James Bond only uses the 'best.'"This is all according to internal Sony emails revealed via last winter's hack, dated to October of 2014.It appears from the first email that long-time producer Bar...
How NYT Magazine Made a 150-Foot Pedestrian for Its Walking Issue
[Business]
2015/04/27 11:08
It’s like Christmas morning for pedestrian advocates! This week’s New York Times Magazine is all about walking, from the very act of perambulation to all the ways that the city—any city really—is best appreciated on foot. And the cover is a street-scale work of art.This is not Photoshop! The art was shot practically, from a helicopter over one of the city’s many new pedestrian plazas, part...
What’s Beyond Moore’s Law ?
[Business]
2015/04/27 11:07
Earlier this year, the world (or maybe rather a few tech-savvy geeks like me) celebrated the 50th birthday of Moore’s Law.In 1965, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore predicted that transistor density (and thus the performance) of microprocessors would double each 2 years. Take for example today’s iPhone 6, which is 3.5 times faster than the iPhone 1 while its price is 30% less than the first gener...
