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Posted on 20111002

Tiny Spanish Island To Be Completely Powered By Solar And Wind

via Fast Company

Intermittency is a well-known weakness of solar and wind power–they’re good when the sun shines and the wind blows, say … Read More >>

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Posted on 20111002

Amazon Silk: An Ingenious Plan to Get You To Buy More Stuff

via Mashable!

Pretty much everyone knew that Amazon would introduce a tablet PC last week, but what may have come as a surprise to many … Read More >>

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Posted on 20111002

Buying Yahoo Is A No-Brainer For Alibaba

via TechCrunch

Today at the China 2.0 conference at Stanford, Alibaba Groups’s Jack Ma replied to a pointed question about buying Yahoo with, … Read More >>

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Posted on 20111002

Boston Dynamics Alpha Dog makes Alyx Vance’s pet look like a toy (video)

via Engadget

Boston Dynamics’ BigDog is one of our favorite insane-level DARPA projects; a robotic pack-mule that can carry 400 pounds … Read More >>

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Posted on 20111002

New Indievania game portal lets you buy direct from creators, takes no cut

via Ars Technica

Game developers setting up their own distribution channels isn’t a new … Read More >>

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Posted on 20111002

Kindle Fire sets off more sales: HTC Flyer price drops by $200

via Ars Technica

The Kindle Fire appears to have catalyzed yet another tablet sale: the HTC Flyer will … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110930

Work Smart: Overcoming "Reactionary Workflow" To Make Your Vision A Reality

via Fast Company

Stop living someone else’s to-do list.There’s a difference between simply working and pushing forward the bold ideas and large … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110930

Facebook Won’t Like This Apple-Twitter Union

via Fast Company

According to Twitter’s VP of Engineering, the social site has seen more growth over the last nine months than in the … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110930

The Binding of Isaac takes on religion in a randomly generated Zelda-styled Roguelike

via Ars Technica

What if God told you that you must kill your son? The story of Isaac is an … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110930

New NFC spec enables two-way communication, potentially makes Bump obsolete

via Engadget

The NFC Forum just released the latest update to the growing close-range standard and it includes a nice little treat called … Read More >>

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