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<title><![CDATA[NASA to demonstrate super-cool cooling technology]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 07:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Fiectcerreoge</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[The new cooling device of the future from NASA.(Credit:NASA)Ever wondered about the source of that humming sound coming from your computer It's most likely the fan that tries to ventilate the internal components. That's a typical cooling system.Jeff Didion (holding the pump) and his EHD-cooling technology developing partners.(Credit:NASA)I am not a rocket scientist, but generally speaking, as electronic components get tinier and more powerful, the amount of heat they generate gets proportionately higher. This is due to the simple fact that there's just not enough surface for the heat to dissipate quickly enough. That's why all computers' processors and high-end video cards come with a heat sink with a fan on top. Take this heat sink away and you'd fry the component in a matter of seconds. Now bring these little advanced devices into space, where there's no air or moisture to help conduct the heat, and you'll have an even bigger challenge. And that's exactly what NASA has been facing.  According to NASA's Jeff Didion, a thermal engineer at the Goddard Space Flight Center, in the world of electronics, thermal control is always one of the limiting factors. He has been collaborating with Jamal Seyed-Yagoobi, a professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, to partner with the U.S. Air Force and National Renewable Energy Laboratory to find ways to push the envelope of thermal-control barriers. The result is the new electrohydrodynamic (EHD)-based thermal control technology, unveiled yesterday, that promises to make it easier and more efficient to remove heat from small spaces. This solution is meant to address a particular challenge for engineers building advanced space instruments and microprocessors that could fail if the heat they generate is not removed.The prototype of the new thermal control technology is a tiny pump, about the size of a little finger, which, apart from the cooling function, is designed to withstand the extreme launch loads as a rocket lifts off and hurtles toward space. The pump will be demonstrated in June on a rocket mission designed to carry microsatellites into space. &quot;Should the device survive the vibration, the technology will have achieved a major milestone in its development,&quot; Didion said. &quot;It will mean that it is at or near operational status, making it a viable technology for use on spaceflight instruments.&quot; While the device is being called a pump, the prototype has no moving parts. According to Didion, unlike current cooling technologies used today by instrument and component developers, EHD does not rely on mechanical pumps and other moving parts. Instead, it uses electric fields to pump coolant through tiny ducts inside a thermal cold plate. From there, the waste heat is dumped onto a radiator and dispersed far from heat-sensitive circuitry that must operate within certain temperature ranges. The fact that no mechanical parts are required means the new cooling system is lighter, consumes less power, (about .5W) and most importantly, can be scaled to different sizes, from larger cold plates to micro-scale electronic components and lab-on-a-chip devices. To see how this would work out, apart from the tiny pump to be tested in the rocket mission in June, a prototype EHD cold plate is also scheduled to be used as an experiment on the International Space Station in 2013.In the meantime, Didion said, the team is continuing its work to further advance EHD, such as developing EHD pumps in microchannels that are etched onto silicon wafers. The next step is placing the technology on circuit boards, with the ultimate goal of scaling it to the chip level where the ducts would be no larger than 100 microns, or about the width of a human hair. There's not yet any information available on how much the technology costs, but hopefully in the future, it will be applied to more down-to-earth applications, such as a computer's microprocessor. Then you wouldn't have to worry about getting a water-cooling system or a huge fan if you're big on overclocking.After helping to develop polarized sunglasses and proliferate the use of Velcro, this just might be the next, coolest thing--quite literally--that NASA has had to offer. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Chrome still shines, 10 versions later]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 07:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Fiectcerreoge</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<title><![CDATA[Scientist says he can clone long-extinct mammoth]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 08:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Fiectcerreoge</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[A Japanese scientist says he has a &quot;reasonable chance&quot; of successfully cloning the long-extinct woolly mammoth within just a few years, according to a report.A prehistoric rendering of the woolly mammoth, from cave art discovered in France.Professor Akira Iritani of Kyoto University told the U.K.'s Telegraph that a technique pioneered in 2008, which allowed for the cloning of a mouse using cells from another mouse that had been frozen for 16 years, could be used to resurrect the famous long-tusked mammal from remains found in Siberia's permafrost. &quot;The success rate in the cloning of cattle was poor until recently, but now stands at about 30 percent,&quot; Iritani told The Telegraph. &quot;I think we have a reasonable chance of success and a healthy mammoth could be born in four or five years.&quot;Iritani is planning an expedition to Siberia this year in search of a well-preserved tissue sample. If he comes up empty-handed, he says, he'll ask Russian scientists to slip him some mammoth skin.He'll then use the mouse-tested technique, developed by the Riken Center for Developmental Biology's Dr. Teruhiko Wakayama, to ID healthy cells' then extract the cells and insert them into the egg cells of an African elephant, which will play the role of mom to the developing mammoth.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Cricket TXTM8 3G is now available]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Fiectcerreoge</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Cricket TXTM8 3GCricket announced the TXTM8 3G today, which is really a rebranded TXTM8 II. As the name suggests, the TXTM8 3G now has 3G support in the form of tri-band EVDO. It's a simple slate-style QWERTY messaging phone, with a 2-megapixel camera, stereo Bluetooth, a 3.5-mm headset jack, a music player, and support for up to 16GB microSD cards. The TXTM8 3G is available for $79.99 after a $20 discount, and no contract is required. The TXTM8 3G is available starting November 12. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[NimbleCommerce lets newspapers build their own Groupon]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Fiectcerreoge</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Startup NimbleCommerce is officially launching today, but founder and chief executive Prashant Nedungadi said the company, which has been working in stealth mode for the past year and half, has already signed up more than 25 large newspapers and business directories for its group-buying service.NimbleCommerce helps those publications tap into the excitement around group buying, where discounts are only available for a limited time and only take effect if enough people sign up. The Santa Clara, Calif., company enables publishers to build deal sections into their websites, allowing them, in effect, to create their own version of the popular service Groupon.This is a way for newspapers to reclaim some of the revenue they lost when their classified sections were undercut by services like Craigslist, Nedungadi said.a4ABy running national banner ads, theya4a4re going in the wrong direction,a4 he said. a4AOne way of getting back to the basics of local users and local service providers is by offering group buying.a4There are other companies promising this kind of service, including TownHog, which partnered with the San Francisco Chronicle. But Nedungadi said competitors typically focus on a4Athe lower end,a4 in contrast with the large organizations and big brand names that NimbleCommerce supports. He also said NimbleCommerce has done the best job at building a complete product that manages a4Athe entire lifecycle of a deala4 for publications that might have a4Ahundreds of sales reps logged into the system.a4Current customers include Philly.com (the website of the Philadelphia Inquirer) and YellowPages Canada.Before I came to VentureBeat, I actually wrote for a small-town newspaper, so I was curious if NimbleCommerce might offer a product for smaller publications. Nedungadi said ita4a4s really designed for bigger companies, although he wants to explore more opportunities with publications that focus on a specific topic, such as golf. The company also plans to explore ways to syndicate deals between different publications.I&amp;'ve asked NimbleCommerce whether it has raised any funding and will update if I hear back. (Update: The company says it has raised $4.7 million from SK Telecom.)[top image via Flickr/Alex Barth]Next Story: The dangers that come with being on top Previous Story: Nokia&amp;'s N8 smartphone facing power issuesPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: group buying, newspapersCompanies: NimbleCommercePeople: Prashant Nadungadi          Tags: group buying, newspapersCompanies: NimbleCommercePeople: Prashant NadungadiAnthony is VentureBeat's assistant editor, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining VentureBeat in 2008, Anthony worked at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing. He attended Stanford University and now lives in San Francisco. Reach him at anthony@venturebeat.com. (All story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com) You can also follow Anthony on Twitter.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Thin Film Solar Catching Up To Crystalline Panels On&nbsp'Efficiency]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Fiectcerreoge</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[ The National Renewable Energy Labratory (NREL) recently tested thin-film solar modules made by MiaSol, and verified that their energy conversion efficiency rate hit 15.7 percent, up from 14.3 percent last year. The company boasted about the number, and several news outlets touted the results. Does it mean the performance gap between thin-film and crystalline solar modules is closing Could thin-film take a bite out of the market for crystalline panels in the U.S., soon Clean tech analysts and engineers believe that thin-film solar is not likely to catch up to crystalline in terms of efficiency any time soon. Neither will thin-film solar modules steal market share from crystalline in 2011, they predict. Thin film solar modules are made by a huge number of companies today including: Abound Solar, Best Solar, First Solar, Konica, LG Electronics, MiaSol, PrimeStar Solar, Nanosolar, Sharp and Uni-Solar. Not all thin-film solar is created equal, however. Today&amp;'s typical thin-film modules look like sheets of glass (image, below). Crystalline modules also look like sheets of glass but are thicker, and framed in metal (image, top of post). Uni-Solar&amp;'s thin-film modules, interestingly, are flexible and have a stick-on backing.A senior analyst with Lux Research, Ted Sullivan, points out that there are a variety of thin-film solar cells in production today: MiaSol uses copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) solar cells in their product' FirstSolar uses cadmium telluride (CdTe) cells, which are dominant sellers in the U.S. thin-film solar market today' while Konica and Sharp use silicon cells. Of all thin-film technologies, CIGS modules demonstrate the greatest energy conversion efficiency, and power output per square meter. CIGS cells require less energy for production than crystalline cells. Thin film in general requires less expensive semiconductor material, and fewer process steps than it takes to make crystalline modules, according to NREL research. Manufacturing costs keep the price of thin-film modules comparatively low, today. Solar analyst Sullivan explained, however, that thin-film solar manufacturers face a different challenge:&amp;''Therea4a4s kind of a consistency issue for all [thin-film] players. Ideally, you want modules to be produced identically, so there is no variation between each module [especially once they''re installed out in the field]. CIGS thin-film solar production is the most highly variable as it involves four metal alloys and processes where impurities and other things can have a negative impact on the resulting product.&amp;'' MiaSol&amp;'s 15.7 percent rating, he noted, is important because it illustrates that CIGS thin-film solar technology is comparable to the current, low-end potential energy of silicon polycrystalline panels. But thin-film solar manufacturers have to procure a greater variety of metals from sources far from the United States (mostly China today) leading to market concerns over trade war potential, a shortage of metals, and unfair labor and damaging environmental practices of mines. Meanwhile, crystalline module prices are coming down a bit as production ramps worldwide. A solar engineer at GridPoint in Houston, Texas, John Gardner says both technologies have their uses, even in a world where they cost about the same.  GridPoint sells and installs software, hardware and services to help organizations switch to clean energy in any form that will work best for their facilities and operations. Gardner says the company uses both thin-film and crystalline solar for client projects, but more crystalline so far, including in power generating systems they&amp;'ve installed for federal agencies, retailers and restaurant chains.Gardner outlined some of the best uses and limitations of each technology:&amp;''In a typical home installation, you&amp;'ll have a certain area, or amount of roof space where you want to place solar panels. If there&amp;'s a limited space, you&amp;'ll probably want crystalline to get the most power per square foot. Structure or aesthetics sometimes dictate what you are able to install, though. We worked on one project involving a roof that could not handle the weight of crystalline panels.Or let&amp;'s say you&amp;'re building a skyscraper with a glass faade. If you integrate thin-film type solar panels there, your building is now generating power with the same skin that was otherwise just glass.If you have near unlimited space, say to build a solar farm out in the desert, you could consider thin-film because the modules cost less per watt. That said, labor costs to install a higher number of modules could offset the price difference, and crystalline might make more sense.&amp;''On Monday, the world&amp;'s largest manufacturer of solar panelsa4&quot; SunTech Power Holdings Co. in Wuxi, Chinaa4&quot; announced it expects to have crystalline modules that have 22 percent conversion efficiency out in the market in the next three years. That&amp;'s one more reason, Sullivan suggests, crystalline panels will remain dominant in 2011, especially in applications where space is limited. &amp;''Most of the thin-film technologies out there today will never get to silicon crystalline efficiency, which has just been around longer and is still seeing improvements,&amp;'' he concluded. CIGS panels image via: Department of Energy Solar DecathalonCrystalline panels image via: Wayne National ForestCrunchBase InformationMiaSolSuntech PowerInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Facebook CFO explains Facebook to Goldman employees]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Fiectcerreoge</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Herea4a4s a fun sidenote to Goldman Sachsa4a4 investment into Facebook: The social networking companya4a4s chief financial officer David Ebersman demonstrated Facebook yesterday to Goldman employees, according to Bloomberg.Specifically, Ebersman walked Goldmana4a4s private wealth-management team through how the site works and gave them pointers on how to explain Facebook to older clients. He was speaking in the firm&amp;'s San Francisco office, but his presentation was transmitted to other Goldman offices.The news made me smile because, even though Goldman has reportedly invested $450 million in Facebook and plans to allow clients to invest $1.5 billion more, the firm&amp;'s employees normally cana4a4t access Facebook in the office (as other articles have pointed out).Of course, Goldman presumably had access to Facebooka4a4s financial details, which, if you&amp;'re going to invest hundreds of millions of dollars at a $50 billion valuation, are much more important than opening a Facebook account. As Facebook moves towards the initial public offering thata4a4s expected in 2012, it will probably have to win over many more Wall Street types who dona4a4t use the site themselves.Neither Facebook nor Goldman has confirmed the deal yet.The attention paid to Goldmana4a4s Facebook access kind of reminds me of the fuss over the fact that Aaron Sorkin didna4a4t join Facebook until hea4a4d signed up to write the movie that became The Social Network. And hey, he wrote a great movie that might win him an Academy Award. It just didna4a4t have anything to do with how Facebook works.Previous Story: Seagate introduces its thinnest portable hard drive ever: 9 mm thickPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Companies: Facebook, Goldman SachsPeople: David Ebersman          Companies: Facebook, Goldman SachsPeople: David EbersmanAnthony is a senior editor at VentureBeat, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining the site in 2008, Anthony worked at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing. He attended Stanford University and now lives in San Francisco. Reach him at anthony@venturebeat.com. (All story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com) You can also follow Anthony on Twitter.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[First cable channel, WealthTV, hits Roku. Will others follow]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Is it possible that a deal between an obscure cable channel and a slightly less obscure provider of streaming video could mark the beginning of the end of cable TV&amp;'s business modelIn a deal that marks a major departure from how both cable and streaming media now operate, WealthTV will make its cable content available through Roku&amp;'s set-top box as a &amp;''linear&amp;'' channel just like its cable channel. The channel will cost Roku users $2.99 a month, and includes access to on-demand content. The news was first reported by PaidContent.Most cable channels don&amp;'t have that option, since the agreements they sign with cable networks like Comcast and Time Warner prohibit them from doing so. This &amp;''would be a bigger deal if WealthTV [were] a popular channel,&amp;'' writes Jared Newman of Technolgizer. &amp;''But it&amp;'s precisely because of WealthTV&amp;'s insignificance that this news has big ramifications for the future of TV.&amp;''Cable networks bundle their programming so you can&amp;'t just buy this channel or that channel a la carte. In a world of a la carte choices, many smaller channels a4&quot; like WealthTV a4&quot; could fail for lack of demand.The WealthTV deal is &amp;''the first domino to fall,&amp;'' Roku executive Ed Lee told PaidContent. There are talks for more such deals, he said, without offering details.WealthTV has avoided signing exclusive agreements with cable providers, which is one thing that has kept it so small (the other being that it&amp;'s kind of cheesy a4&quot; the company actually refers to it as &amp;''vicarious living programming&amp;''). The channel is all about watching how the wealthy live their lives, with programming like &amp;''Etiquette 1010&amp;8243', &amp;''Palatial Passport,&amp;'' and &amp;''Wealth on Wheels&amp;'' (pictured above). It has deals with Charter Communications and Verizon, but not with Comcast or Time Warner. But that has also made it possible for the channel to be a potential pioneer in breaking the cable oligopoly on linear programming.&amp;''This is the kind of channel that could get forced out if a significant number of big-name channels went a la carte,&amp;'' Newman writes. But &amp;''this move gives WealthTV greater visibility with the possibility of more monthly revenue. Considering that most channels collect pennies per month for each cable subscriber, WealthTV has a lot to gain at $3 per month.&amp;''For more on the disruption of the TV industry, see Ty Braswell&amp;'s opinion column from yesterday, Why 2011 will be do-or-die for TV.Previous Story: Apple posts stellar earnings, beating expectations by a huge marginPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: cable tv, streaming videoCompanies: Charter Communications, Comcast, Roku, Time Warner Cable, Verizon, wealthTVPeople: ed lee          Tags: cable tv, streaming videoCompanies: Charter Communications, Comcast, Roku, Time Warner Cable, Verizon, wealthTVPeople: ed leeVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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