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Apple's 2013 Supplier Responsibility Report Includes 72% Bump In Audits For...
Apple has released its 2013 Supplier Responsibility Progress Report, and it features a number of updates from last year, including Apple’s decision to join the Fair Labor Association (a notable first),...
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With 300 Kiosks In 20 States, Device Recycler EcoATM Secures $40M In Debt...
You know those mobile devices that everyone keeps raving about? Turns out it’s a huge business. Shocker, I know. Strategy Analytics recently estimated that about 1.6 billion mobile phones shipped in...
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Social Crowdfunding Platform Rally.org Expands To Europe With New Berlin...
Rally.org, the U.S.-based crowdfunding platform designed for socially-minded causes, is taking its mission to Europe. Today, the startup is opening an incubator in Berlin, its first outside of the...
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Elon Musk Lays Out His Evidence That New York Times Tesla Model S Test Drive...
Tesla Motors CEO and founder Elon Musk definitely isn’t the best guy to try to pull a fast one on. The visionary entrepreneur set Twitter a titter when he claimed earlier this week that New York Times...
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Making It Illegal To Fail Science Students Who Argue Humans Co-Existed With...
As American science students struggle to compete with the global competition, Oklahoma is moving forward with a law that could ban Biology teachers from failing students who argue that humans...
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Ease The Geek Rage: Obama's Technically Right, There Is a Jedi Meld
Correction: There is a Jedi meld starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Force_meld (h/t @thegarance)— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) March 01, 2013 President Obama inadvertently triggered national geek outrage, after...
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QloudSync: A Dropbox Competitor Running On 100% Renewable Energy
There is no shortage of cloud-based file storage and synchronization solutions: Dropbox, Box.net, Ubuntu One, and on and on and on. Most offer pretty much the same things. A few niche players offer...
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Tokyo's Terra Motors Wants To Help Electric Vehicle Transport Go Green From...
Japanese startup Terra Motors officially debuted its electric tuk-tuk (a type of three-wheeled passenger vehicle common in Asia), a tricycle that costs just over $6,000 U.S. and gets 31 miles on a 2...
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Google Asks Utilities To Make It Easier For Companies To Buy Renewable Energy
Google has long had an interest in renewable energy and has now invested more than $1 billion of its own money in alternative energy projects. However, as the company notes in a blog post and white...
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Google Encourages Going Green For Earth Day With “Nature's Engineers” Micro Site
Biomimicry is an engineering field that takes cues from nature to help solve and address human problems, and Google today launched a new website at its Google Green initiative that highlights some of...
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The First Ever Synthetic Biology Kickstarter Is About Growing ‘Glowing Plants'
Kickstarter might be better known for funding films and hardware projects, but it’s now getting its first synthetic biology proposal. A Singularity University alum, a Stanford post-doc and a Stanford...
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SupplyShift Helps Companies Understand The Environmental Impact Of Their...
For large companies that have a long list of suppliers that they work with, it’s not only difficult to manage communication with all of them, but understanding the environmental impact of each supplier...
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We're “80% Of The Way” To Fake Meat That's Indistinguishable From The Real Thing
If you’ve flirted with vegetarianism like I have, then you’re probably aware of a range of meat substitutes, all of which pale in comparison to the real thing. But now Beyond Meat CEO and founder Ethan...
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Here's Your Chance To Influence The Internet Sales Tax Law, For Reals
Congress is on track to passing a nationwide Internet retail sales tax, but it has serious flaws that could majorly muck up the e-commerce industry. We think citizens are often smarter than the...
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SunnyBot Is A Solar-Powered Robot That Tracks The Sun To Reflect Sunlight...
Here’s a neat greentech idea currently seeking crowdfunding on Kickstarter. SunnyBot is a microcomputer-powered robot that continually tracks the position of the sun, angling its on-board mirror so...
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Tesla Shows Off A 90-Second Battery Swap System, Wants It At Supercharging...
Tesla teased electric motorheads earlier this week by announcing an event that would show off its curious battery-swapping system, and it wound up being even more impressive than most of us imagined....
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Xentry Wants You To Reuse Your Old Smartphone As A Wi-Fi Door Caller Display
If you’re anything like the average technology writer you’ll have a drawer full of old kit lying around the place, gathering dust. Well here’s what looks like a neat use for old smartphones that are...
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The Practical Meter Speeds Up Charging Your Smartphone Over USB
Here’s a neat gizmo for speeding up charging your smartphone over USB. The Practical Meter plugs into the USB socket you intend to use to charge your phone and has built-in indicator lights to show...
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Valta Turns To Kickstarter To Fund Home Gadget Energy Management Platform
Toronto-based startup Valta is looking for Kickstarter funding to help it bring its remote energy-management system to life, in order to give homeowners complete control over power usage by devices in...
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The OnBeat Solar Headphones Want To Charge Your Phone While You Listen To Music
Solar panels need plenty of sun to work well so why not carry them around on your head? That’s the slightly off-the-wall thinking behind this U.K.-based Kickstarter campaign aiming to produce a pair...
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