For everything from family to computers…
Wow… that’s playing dirty… and in the end, it’s innovation that would suffer…Â 🙁
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The conclusion could kick off a trade war between the U.S. and China, which could harm solar innovation.
It looks likely that a U.S. government investigation into the pricing of solar panels by companies in China will find that they are selling below cost, perhaps aided by government support.
As you stretch a rubber band, it heats up. But as it cools down it actually loses some of the energy it stored when it was stretched. That means the longer a slingshot is left loaded, the less powerful it becomes. Unless you’re Joerg Sprave, the internet’s resident master of slingshot design, who discovered that simply reheating a stretched elastic band can restore up to 40 percent of its original powuh. More »
from Gizmodo
Hmm… not sure what to expect from this… hope it works but quite doubtful.
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European Union foreign ministers gathered Monday to ramp up pressure on Iran and Syria, with fresh sanctions expected on both nations.
It looks like that redesign was worth it. The Google-owned video site has recently revealed that it’s now streaming 4 billion videos every day, up 25 percent on daily views from eight months earlier. According to Reuter‘s report, the site now has to deal with around 60 hours of uploaded video every minute. As long as those education videos are kept separate and the cat content keeps coming, we’ll be happy.
from Engadget
Krispy Kreme (of all companies) created a similar kind of sandal as part of a promotion a few years ago, but Kusa’s grass flip flops have two distinct differences. They’re made with artificial turf, and you can actually buy them. More »
from Gizmodo
My top pick if I had to choose NOW would be WebEx… but I will have to look into those free ones. 😀
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If you work at a company with employees in offices around the globe, or you work in a small company but want to collaborate with a contractor who works from home or vendor across the country, you need a service that will let you connect with your team, share documents, collaborate on them, and in some cases even share your screen or webcam with them. Here are five of the best services to conduct productive online meetings, based on your nominations. More »
from Lifehacker
The gang at XDA-Developers are hard at work on a full port of Counter-Strike to Android devices, but they’ve already released two playable versions Android owners can run go get free right now. More »
from Kotaku