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Best of the Week: Saturday, November 21, 2009

A 25-Year Battery

Materials | By Katherine Bourzac | 13 Comments

Long-lived nuclear batteries powered by hydrogen isotopes are in testing for military applications.

Thin-Film Solar with High Efficiency

Materials | 4 Comments

Solexant is printing inorganic solar cells with nanomaterials.

Bendable Magnetic Interface

Computing

A sensing surface developed by Microsoft researchers offers new ways to use computers.

Google Gives a First Look at the Chrome OS

Web | 9 Comments

The company unveils the technical details of its operating system.

How Secure Is Cloud Computing?

Computing | 1 Comment

Cryptography solutions are far-off, but much can be done in the near term, says Whitfield Diffie.

Friday, November 20, 2009

A New Route to Cellulosic Biofuels: By Phil McKenna | Energy | 2 Comments; ZeaChem's pilot plant will make ethanol using termite microbes.

Self-Policing Cloud Computing: By David Talbot | Computing; IBM security tool searches for and destroys malicious code in the cloud.

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Computers Can't Answer Everything: By Erica Naone | Communications | 6 Comments; A startup says natural language processing works best with human intelligence.

Potential Treatment for Down Syndrome: By Emily Singer | Biomedicine; Enhancing specific chemical signaling in the brain could help treat the disorder.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Making 3D Maps on the Move: By Kristina Grifantini | Computing | 1 Comment; A vehicle uses off-the-shelf components to build 3D maps of an area.

Who's Talking About Me?: By Erica Naone | Web; Web experts are designing technologies that can collect scattered bits of online conversation.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

New Hope for Neuron Protection: By Jennifer Chu | Biomedicine; A drug developed to treat Lou Gehrig's disease undergoes clinical trials.

P4P Remodels File Sharing: By Erika Jonietz | Web | 1 Comment; Peer-to-peer routing technology being tested by Internet service providers could change networking.

Monday, November 16, 2009

Using CO₂ to Extract Geothermal Energy: By Peter Fairley | Energy | 13 Comments; Carbon dioxide captured from power plants could make geothermal energy more practical.

DNS Security Protocol Gains Momentum: By Robert Lemos | Computing; Secure Internet-address-lookup technology readied for .net and .com domains.

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Oars 'n' Others: by kfc | 11/21/2009
Mathematician Solves Rowing Boat "Wiggle" Problem: by kfc | 11/20/2009 | 3 Comments
Explaining the Air Traffic Breakdown: by David Talbot | 11/20/2009 | 1 Comment
How to Spur U.S. Renewable Energy: by Kevin Bullis | 11/20/2009 | 2 Comments

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Searching for Real-Time Search: Google's CEO says it's still an unsolved problem.; By Erica Naone

In Search of What Everyone's Clicking: A real-time search engine bases its results on users' browsing habits.; By Erica Naone

Splitting Up Search: Distributing a search engine's index around the world could make it faster and more efficient, researchers say.; By Duncan Graham-Rowe

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Oars 'n' Others: The best of the rest from the physics arXiv this week: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24443/ 11/21/2009 10:00 AM
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