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One of the most closely watched U.S. Supreme Court cases this spring was MGM v. Grokster. In it, the Court heard arguments on whether Grokster and other makers of software used to share music and video...
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When serial entrepreneur Larry Bock’s Palo Alto startup, Nanosys, pulled its IPO a year ago this month, it helped to deflate financial interest in nanotech. But Bock, Nanosys’s chairman, says his...
View ArticleCosmic Competition
The $10 million Ansari X Prize competition, which so spectacularly spurred the development of commercial space flight, ended last year; but now, NASA’s Exploration Systems Mission Directorate has...
View ArticleSolar Sunny Days
Solar energy is finally getting its day in the sun, buoyed by renewable-energy incentives and snowballing economies of scale. Former Stanford University professor Dick Swanson, the founder and CTO of...
View ArticleCarver Meads Natural Inspiration
Conventional wisdom descries a black hole between the infinite uncertainty of modern theoretical physics and the can-do spirit of entrepreneurship and engineering. One more reason to ignore...
View ArticleRSS Inc.
Once a nerd preserve, the Internet communication format known as Really Simple Syndication has acquired a key tech-buzz validation: a dedicated venture capital fund, RSS Investors. John Palfrey,...
View ArticleBio Programming
The next step after reading genetic code is writing it. In June, biotech pioneers J. Craig Venter and Hamilton Smith launched Synthetic Genomics, a Rockville, MD-based “synthetic biology” startup aimed...
View ArticlePower Talk
France leads the world in the civilian use of nuclear power – almost 80 percent of its electricity is generated with uranium. The person who runs that enterprise is Anne Lauvergeon, chairman of the...
View ArticleVirtual Economics
More than 70,000 people participate in San Francisco-based Linden Lab’s Second Life, the first online virtual community built around economics. The company’s founder explains how a capitalist model...
View ArticlePower Talk
France leads the world in the civilian use of nuclear power – almost 80 percent of its electricity is generated with uranium. The person who runs that enterprise is Anne Lauvergeon, chairman of the...
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