 At humankind’s current rate of growth, it is estimated that by the year 2050, the planet will be host to three billion more people than it is today, making for a 40% increase over Earth’s current population. Yet at present, over 80% of the planet’s arable land is already in use, which leaves one to wonder how such a large number of people will be fed.
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It is not every day that a concept car re-writes the rules of more than 100 years of motoring. In development for four years by a team of architects and engineers led by William Mitchell, former head of the school of architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as part of his Smart Cities research group, a new MIT car is borne of a complete rethink of people’s relationship with their cars in the ever-expanding cities of the future.
Electricity from the largest wind power farm on Indian land has begun flowing into California’s power-hungry grid because of a partnership between project sponsor Babcock & Brown and GE Energy Financial Services. Energy Financial Services invested $51 million in the 50-megawatt Kumeyaay Wind project near San Diego.
We’re going to try hard not to rag on Sharp too much for continuing to pump out electronic dictionaries; we get that these are destined mainly for Asian markets, where customers (and language schools that charge extortionary fees) still have some interest in dedicated devices, rather than PDAs or smartphones that can handle dictionary software and a whole lot more.
In a step that could lead to better communications and imaging technologies, engineers at Purdue University, West Lafayette IN, are claiming to be the first researchers to create a material that has a negative index of refraction in the wavelength of light used for telecommunications.
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Pioneer Corporation is one of the Blu-ray Disc Founders. It has been an innovator of optical disc technology since it brought LaserDisc, the precursor to DVD, to market in 1980. This first generation BDR-101A product will be targeted primarily to professional users and serious enthusiasts, generally the first to adopt new technology.
Last year, Elton John has blamed former pop star Victoria Beckham for problems in her high-profile marriage to soccer star David Beckham.