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Next-gen biofuel company KiOR hit by investor lawsuit, going concern 27 Aug 2013 | 03:49 pm
Following the news that next-gen biofuel company Kior failed to meet its biofuel production targets for last quarter, an investor in the company has filed a lawsuit (embedded below), and is seeking to...
ARM acquires Sensinode to build better protocols for the internet of things 27 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
ARM, the chip architecture licensing firm, has acquired a Finish software company called Sensinode that has been building software for the internet of things. The price of the deal wasn’t disclosed, b...
Tiny superconducting dots could lead to more efficient solar cells 27 Aug 2013 | 04:09 am
When light hits a solar cell, electrons get excited and begin to move about — and that’s what generates a flow of electricity. Silicon, the semiconductor commonly used in solar cells, is especially go...
Researchers figure out how to grow uniform batches of carbon nanotubes 26 Aug 2013 | 10:45 pm
Carbon nanotubes, tiny tubes of rolled up graphene that measure just 1 nanometer across, are super-strong structures that could someday be used in solar cells, batteries, electronic circuits and every...
Silver Lake’s energy fund bucks cleantech freeze, keeps raising funds (thanks SolarCity) 26 Aug 2013 | 08:09 pm
While cleantech venture capital investing dropped in 2012, there’s still investors that believe putting money into innovation around energy and resource management will pay off. Silver Lake’s cleantec...
A decade later, Tesla now officially a threat to the auto industry 26 Aug 2013 | 05:04 pm
It’s funny, electric car company Tesla has been building its business for a decade now, but it’s just in recent months that the auto industry seems to be taking Tesla’s innovations as an actual threat...
6 ideas to watch from MIT Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35 list 24 Aug 2013 | 09:30 pm
Every year, MIT Technology Review releases a list of people less than 35 years old who are working on the most exciting innovations on Earth (or beyond). The list has featured Marc Andreessen (1999), ...
Can Google build its own ‘Nexus car’ without the help of automakers? 24 Aug 2013 | 03:34 am
Google is weighing building its own line of self-driving cars independent of the automakers, according to new report by Amir Efrati on JessicaLessin.com. Efrati doesn’t name his sources, but he’s a ve...
This satellite could be beaming solar power down from space by 2025 23 Aug 2013 | 09:59 pm
NASA veteran and aerospace entrepreneur John Mankins wants to put a flock of solar power plant in space that could deliver power to anywhere on the planet. But most of the industry thinks it would be ...
Researchers create wallpaper that listens and measures 23 Aug 2013 | 04:36 am
Electronics are getting smaller and smaller, but not at Princeton University. Researchers there are working on sheets of plastic that contain huge, embedded radios based on technology developed in the...