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“Carousel Fraud” Strikes Carbon Markets: Carbon credit fraudsters are increasingly “setting up complicated import and export schemes between EU member countries, charging buyers for value-added tax in...
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The U.S. military is leading the charge in the development of an interesting subset of smart grid technology — the so-called microgrid. This morning, on-site power generation and management company...
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Can This Bomb-Defusing Robot Take Care of Grandma, Too?
Be it defusing car bombs or programming old people’s VCR’s (so those displays finally stops blinking 12:00), the grabby little Taurus has the makings of a real renaissance robot. Developed by the...
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How the military and solar industry can work together
As energy use by the U.S. military grows — the Department of Defense (DoD) uses 300,000 barrels of oil every day — the conversation about how the military can consume cleaner power continues to grow,...
View ArticleCleantech: a question of national security
Last Thursday, Republicans trotted out Energy Secretary Steven Chu before the House Energy and Commerce Committee to answer questions as to whether there was any wrongdoing in the granting of...
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Android in camouflage: How the military can utilize smartphone tech
Android (s goog) is still the smartphone platform of choice for the world’s consumers, but it may also be the ideal operating system for the world’s armies, navies and security agencies. The versatile,...
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Why WikiLeaks is worth defending, despite all of its flaws
By now, anyone with even a passing interest in the WikiLeaks phenomenon is familiar with most of the elements of its fall from grace: the rift between founder Julian Assange and early supporters over...
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Israel and Twitter: Where does free speech end and violence begin?
If you’ve been following the social-media campaign that was recently unleashed by the Israeli army on a multitude of platforms — from Twitter and Facebook to Instagram and Tumblr — as part of its...
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Ten-Hut! Presenting Defense Mobile, a mobile carrier for U.S. soldiers
Anyone who has ever spent time in a military town knows there is a whole network of services, ranging from medical and dental care to banking and department stores, provided specifically for members of...
View ArticleGoogle buys Boston Dynamics, the world’s scariest robot developer
Google(s goog) revealed last week that it was getting into the robot-building game in a big way, in order to push into the manufacturing and logistics industries. Now it’s bought Boston Dynamics,...
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