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Kawasaki shelves plan for robot plant: paper TOKYO (Reuters) - Kawasaki Heavy Industries decided to cancel its plan to spend 10 billion yen ($94 million) to build a new industrial robot plant as auto and microchip makers curb capital investments, the Nikkei business daily said. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Reuter |
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Why Does This Prominent Amazon Researcher Face 14 Years in Prison for Biopiracy? Motoring up Brazil's Arauazinho River during the rainy season is like navigating a lake full of trees. The rust-colored water escapes its banks and spreads out across the rain forest, leaving the channel indistinguishable from the jungle around it. Marc van Roosmalen, however, seems to sense th Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Why Does This Prominent Amazon Researcher Face 14 Years in Prison for Biopiracy? Motoring up Brazil's Arauazinho River during the rainy season is like navigating a lake full of trees. The rust-colored water escapes its banks and spreads out across the rain forest, leaving the channel indistinguishable from the jungle around it. Marc van Roosmalen, however, seems to sense th Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Driven: Shai Agassi's Audacious Plan to Put Electric Cars on the Road Agassi will sell his battery-powered cars cheap and make money off drivers' electricity purchases. Photo: Joe Pugliese The problem, he decided, was oil-consuming, CO2-spewing cars. The solution was to get rid of them. Not just some, and not just by substituting hy Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Driven: Shai Agassi's Audacious Plan to Put Electric Cars on the Road Agassi will sell his battery-powered cars cheap and make money off drivers' electricity purchases. Photo: Joe Pugliese The problem, he decided, was oil-consuming, CO2-spewing cars. The solution was to get rid of them. Not just some, and not just by substituting hy Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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How to See 93 Million Miles: Plan a Trip to a Total Solar Eclipse A total solar eclipse will cut a swath of shadow through Greenland, the Arctic, Russia, Mongolia and China on August 1. And thousands of people will travel to remote locations just to stand in the dark for three minutes -- and maybe perceive the vast size of the solar system. Loca Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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How to See 93 Million Miles: Plan a Trip to a Total Solar Eclipse A total solar eclipse will cut a swath of shadow through Greenland, the Arctic, Russia, Mongolia and China on August 1. And thousands of people will travel to remote locations just to stand in the dark for three minutes -- and maybe perceive the vast size of the solar system. Loca Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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McCain touts energy plan at nuclear plant NEWPORT, Michigan (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain visited a nuclear power plant on Tuesday to tout his plan to battle rising energy costs by expanding exploration of traditional sources like nuclear power and offshore oil drilling. Home > Rss Directory > General > Reuters |
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McCain touts energy plan at nuclear plant
(Reuters) Reuters - Republican presidential candidate John McCain visited a nuclear power plant on Tuesday to tout his plan to battle rising energy costs by expanding exploration of traditional sources like nuclear power and offshore oil drilling. Home > Rss Directory > General > Yahoo News |
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10 quick fixes for the worst security nightmares In the world of comic books, every bad guy is an evil genius. On the Web, hackers, spammers, and phishers may be evil, but they're not required to be geniuses. They can make a healthy living just by exploiting known security holes that many users haven't bothered to p Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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The Digital Home Podcast 35: Guy Kawasaki comes Home! Check out Don Reisinger's latest Digital Home podcast where he sits down with Guy Kawasaki and explains exactly why Apple is full of it. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > CNET |
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Plan to teach baby robot to talk Staff at a Devon university are preparing to start work to see if they can teach a baby robot to talk. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > BBC |
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Wal-Mart Yanks Linux PC From Shelves, Keeps Them Online - InformationWeek eFluxMediaWal-Mart Yanks Linux PC From Shelves, Keeps Them OnlineInformationWeek - 10 hours agoThe sale of Everex gPCs was a test run more than a gung ho endorsement of Linux's readiness, according to the retailer. By J. Nicholas Hoover After only a few months on the s Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Gallery: Next-Gen Space Gear for Humanity's Return to the Moon : Photo: Ingrid Barrentine/Wired.comBefore you can take your rover to the moon, you need to test it on Earth. This week, NASA engineers did just that at Grant County ORV Park in Moses Lake, Washington, which they chose for its similarity to the moon's terrain. As NASA takes i Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Gallery: Next-Gen Space Gear for Humanity's Return to the Moon : Photo: Ingrid Barrentine/Wired.comBefore you can take your rover to the moon, you need to test it on Earth. This week, NASA engineers did just that at Grant County ORV Park in Moses Lake, Washington, which they chose for its similarity to the moon's terrain. As NASA takes i Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Moving Day for Space Station Robot - The Associated Press PRESS TVMoving Day for Space Station RobotThe Associated Press - 1 hour agoCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Astronauts moved Dextre the robot to its new perch outside the international space station on Tuesday after devoting nearly a week to putting together and creating t Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Terrifying farm mechanoid plan for Japan No other way to cope with monster vegetable menace In a further outre twist, the budding Japanese robot'n' exoskeleton industry plans to move into a new sector. Researchers in the land of the Rising Sun have exhibited a mighty powered suit which could see increasingly elderly farmers - lifespans Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Testing of station's Dextre robot gets underway - Spaceflight Now KOMOTesting of station's Dextre robot gets underwaySpaceflight Now - 47 minutes agoBY WILLIAM HARWOOD The Canadian Space Agency's $209 million space station robot, Dextre, was subjected to joint-by-joint brake tests today to make sure the gangly mechanical handyman's 1 Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Blast at Ark. Meat Plant Causes Gas Leak - The Associated Press KIDKBlast at Ark. Meat Plant Causes Gas LeakThe Associated Press - 3 hours agoBOONEVILLE, Ark. (AP) - An explosion at a meat packing plant on Sunday caused an ammonia gas leak that forced 180 people from their homes, but none of those working at the plant was injured, Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Deal in a Box: MacHeist Retail Bundle Puts Shareware on Shelves The popular MacHeist software bundle, the largest ever distribution of shareware for the Mac, will be making its way to retail shelves this year. Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |