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Addressing Peak Energy Demand with the Tesla Powerpack

_Super categories / Energy / Energy efficiency / Energy management / Governance / Smart Grid / Smart Living / Work
Sep 26, 2016

Last October, a catastrophic rupture in the Aliso Canyon natural gas reservoir caused a methane gas spill that displaced more than 8,000 Californians and released an unprecedented 1.6 million pounds of methane into the atmosphere. Today, the Aliso Canyon leak is considered the worst in U.S. history, with aggregate greenhouse gas emissions said to outweigh those of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

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Reading a book through its cover

_Super categories / Culture / Life / People & Society / Smart Living / Work
Sep 16, 2016

New computational imaging method identifies letters printed on first nine pages of a stack of paper. MIT researchers and their colleagues are designing an imaging system that can read closed books.

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First Flight with 3-D printed, safety-critical parts from NAVAIR

_H Promoted / _Super categories / Additive Manufacturing / Governance / New Tech / Smart Industry / Smart Living / Work
Sep 13, 2016

NAVAL AIR STATION PATUXENT RIVER, Maryland (NNS) — Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) marked its first successful flight demonstration of a flight critical aircraft component built using additive manufacturing (AM) techniques, July 29.

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New Evidence-Based Policy and Innovation division of Laura and John Arnold Foundation

_Super categories / Governance / Smart Living / Work
Dec 18, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Laura and John Arnold Foundation (LJAF) today announced the launch of its new Evidence-Based Policy and Innovation division. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the new division will develop and support initiatives that encourage policy leaders to consider reliable evidence and data as the primary factor in their decisions. Kathy Stack and Jon Baron, two of the nation’s most prominent advocates for evidence-based policymaking, will lead the division. They will support efforts to ensure that government rigorously evaluates existing programs and designs new programs with the use of credible evidence. By prioritizing measurable results, government can allocate funds in an efficient and impactful way to produce meaningful improvements in people’s lives.

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TASER International and Microsoft Corp. announce partnership to deliver a trusted cloud solution for law enforcement

_Super categories / Governance / Laws & Regulations / Smart Living / Work
Dec 18, 2015

October 26, 2015, at the International Association of Chiefs of Police annual conference in Chicago, IL, TASER International (NASDAQ: TASR) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced a partnership that will bring together the global scale, technology breadth, and security commitment of both companies through the combined capabilities of the Microsoft Azure cloud platform and Windows 10 devices with TASER’s Axon Platform and Evidence.com solution.