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May 7, 2008

The Rise of the Energy-Efficient Utility

Vermont's efforts to curb electricity demand are working,
and Delaware is starting the most ambitious plan yet

Internal NASA Documents Give Clues to Scary Soyuz Return Flight

Engineers are attempting to reconstruct the 19 April Soyuz
descent from the ISS

May 5, 2008

EV ROUNDUP: ELECTRIC VEHICLES MOVE FORWARD...SLOWLY

A Chevrolet Volt update, two tiny Japanese EVs, and even a
Tesla lawsuit

ELECTRIC VEHICLES MOVE FORWARD...SLOWLY

A Chevrolet Volt update, two tiny Japanese EVs, and even a
Tesla lawsuit

May 1, 2008

Zipf Drive

The New Economics of Semiconductor Manufacturing

The Toyota Production System has been applied to chip making. The electronics industry may never be the same

The Mash Monsters

DJs Adrian & the Mysterious D sing the praises of the
mashup, a do-it-yourself combo of existing music that has
copyright lawyers licking their chops

The Hunt for the Kill Switch

Are chip makers building electronic trapdoors in key military hardware? The Pentagon is making its biggest effort yet to find out

Taiwanese software spots stock-market stinkers

Evolutionary algorithm combined with three other prediction
methods can spot which companies are headed for trouble two
years in advance

Survivor: The Office

You can't avoid office politics, so you might as well learn
the rules of the game