“A practical artificial leaf has been one of the Holy Grails of science for decades,” said Daniel Nocera, Ph.D., who led the research team. “We believe we have done it. The artificial leaf shows particular promise as an inexpensive source of electricity for homes of the poor in developing countries. Our goal is to make each home its own power station,” he said. “One can envision villages in India and Africa not long from now purchasing an affordable basic power system based on this technology.”

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Fisker Automotive, the California manufacturer of premium plug-in hybrid electric vehicles today revealed additional images shot specifically for the European market, as part of its international marketing campaign.

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Bellona’s Bøhmer said there were two critical points remaining unresolved on Monday. The first is that reactor No 3, which has been extensively damaged, has to be stabilized.

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Iceland is considering building the world’s longest sub-sea electric cable to allow it to sell its geothermal and volcanic energy to Europe, the country’s largest energy company said Monday.

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The process, deployed by CoolPlanetBiofuels, also produces a byproduct that can capture carbon and also be added to soil to improve crop yields, leading to what Google Ventures described as a “negative carbon fuel.”

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The world’s biggest software company said its legal action against the operator of the Rustock ‘botnet’ — or network of infected computers programed to send spam e-mail — led to raids across the country on Thursday which effectively shut the network down.

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First unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show earlier this month, the first fully electric Rolls-Royce car has begun a world tour. The company is testing how the super-rich respond to the alternative engine in the classic luxury car. The Phantom 102EX sees the company returning to its roots as both its founders, Rolls and Royce, [...]

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The current wait time for an iPad ordered online is 4-5 weeks. Apple declined to say how that would be affected.

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Research in Motion is a front runner in the race to convert billions of feature phone users into data-wielding smartphone customers but is seen possessing only a small window of opportunity to reinvigorate itself and match the momentum of rival mobile monarchs Apple and Google in a life-or-death battle for relevance, writes Alastair Sharp.

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Smart Dark Zen BlackBerry Theme 9600 :: 4.7 5.0 / 9700 : 5.0

Follow the X!

Theme for the:
9600 4.7 : 5.0
9700 5.0

Stylish and usable theme for Blackberry

Welcome to the Smooth large display, flooded with color and Light.
By KC
Adding style to theme design.
Awaken your need for Smooth style of the 9500 BlackBerry.

One of the collection by KC!

Features:

* Created for most technical yet stylish devices on the market today!
* The BlackBerry no other device touch’s it.
* Get the theme to match!
* Secure
* Email
* Business savy
* Simple to use
* Stable Operating System
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* KC Blackberry theme
* Finally the much awaited theme for Blackberry 9500 is here!
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* Stylish
* Creative
* Original
* Easy to use
* Designed by KC!
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* Beautiful design
* 3D background created in state of the art 3D editing software.
* Purposely for this device.
* As are all the themes by KC.
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Minimum Requirements:

* SDZ 9000 4.6
o Target OS 4.6
* SDZ 9600 4.7
o Smart Dark Tour 9600 OS 4.7
* SDZ 9600 5.0
o BlackBerry 9700 9600
* SDZ 9700 5.0
o BlackBerry 9700 Bold

SDZ 9000 4.6
Display Dimensions
480×320
Operating System
4.6

SDZ 9600 4.7
Display Dimensions
480×360
Operating System
4.7 Non-Touch

SDZ 9600 5.0
Display Dimensions
480×360
Operating System
5.0 Non-Touch

SDZ 9700 5.0
Display Dimensions
480×360
Operating System
5.0 Non-Touch

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17 servos make i-SOBOT™ walk more like a human than most humans. A built-in gyro-sensor, 2 LEDs, and voice command recognition make him way more fun to have around than most people you know, not to mention the hundreds of pre-programmed actions, words and phrases that’ll make your day. i-SOBOT™ also comes with rechargeable batteries and a remote control for instant control or programming, so he’s ready to rock right out of the box.

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TOKYO, Japan, April 13, 2010 – Honda Motor Co., Ltd. revealed the latest prototype of the EV-neo electric scooter and announced plans to begin lease sales in Japan in December 2010 to businesses and individual business owners who provide mainly delivery services.

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# Full touch Super AMOLED offers the best ever viewing quality on a mobile
# First handset released on bada platform
# Social Hub brings all your social networks together in one, unified solution
# TouchWiz 3.0 expands Smartphone usability to the next level

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BASKING RIDGE, NJ, and LIBERTYVILLE, IL — Verizon Wireless, the company with the nation’s largest and most reliable wireless 3G network, and Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT), a pioneer in the mobile industry, today announced that DROID™ 2 by Motorola will be available for pre-sale on August 11. Hitting all the right keys, DROID 2 is a feature-packed device that helps manage work and social life with an enhanced QWERTY keyboard, ultra high-speed Web browsing, 3G Mobile HotSpot capabilities, full push corporate e-mail, intuitive social messaging and Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 for access to the full web – all built on Android 2.2.

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Seoul, South Korea – BlackBerry® smartphones users are now able to access real-time news from Yonhap News Agency fast and comfortably.

Yonhap News announced that the free Yonhap News application for BlackBerry® smartphones was launched on BlackBerry App World™.

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eBay application allows sellers to relist items directly within app; buyers can access more information about sellers

San Jose, Calif. and Waterloo, Ont. – Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM), a world leader in wireless innovation, and eBay, a global leader in mobile commerce and the world’s largest online marketplace, today jointly announced that the free eBay Application for BlackBerry® smartphones is immediately available on BlackBerry App World™ in six more countries: Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom.* The application is also now officially available to North American BlackBerry smartphone users after a successful beta preview period.

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BlackBerry Torch Smartphone First to Feature New BlackBerry 6 Combines New Touch Screen Experience with Easy-To-Use Keyboard and Rich WebKit Browser First Smartphone to Support AT&T’s Next Generation Messaging Experience, and First to Offer Locations Feature New BlackBerry App World Pre-installed with Carrier Billing Support

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New app and service offer access to audio and video podcasts from leading content providers

Waterloo, ON – Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today launched BlackBerry® Podcasts, a free application and service that allows BlackBerry® smartphone users to easily discover, acquire and enjoy podcasts from leading content providers. BlackBerry Podcasts gives users access to free audio and video content that can be downloaded over Wi-Fi® or over cellular networks* and then enjoyed through the BlackBerry media player.

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Jakarta, Indonesia – Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced the new BlackBerry® Curve™ 3G, an exciting addition to the popular BlackBerry Curve series of smartphones. Designed to provide the growing mass of smartphone purchasers with a distinctly powerful, approachable and affordable choice, the BlackBerry Curve 3G supports high-speed 3G (HSDPA) networks around the world and gives users the exceptional communications features they need to accomplish more than ever, when they’re at home, at work and everywhere in-between.

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I visited the new solo show from Eva and Franco Mattes (aka, a bit obnoxiously, as 0100101110101101.org) at Postmasters Gallery directly after catching the final weekend of Marina Abramovic’s “The Artist Is Present” at MoMA. This is significant, considering that the Matteses once staged virtual renditions of key Abramovic works — like “Imponderabilia” — using the virtual medium of Second Life. There’s more Second Life-facilitated art here at Postmasters — all of it oddly beautiful and bizarre, humorous yet also ingenious in its exploration of how digital animation and virtual reality can affect human interaction (and the nude anatomy).

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Leading analyst firm Gartner Inc. has named nTeams a Cool Vendor in the category of Social Software and Collaboration for 2010. Gartner defines a Cool Vendor as one that offers innovative, impactful, and intriguing enterprise solutions. nTeams is the publisher of an enterprise virtual world solution designed to help widely distributed teams collaborate. The nTeams solution is designed to be usable off-the-shelf by any enterprise customer, with prebuilt buildings, avatars, and locations available for users who want to design their virtual world quickly.

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