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Smart city, smart planet: Sensity is creating a billion-node network of global sensors — in street lights

There are over four billion street lights in the world. Almost all of them are high-intensity discharge lights that use mercury vapor or some other toxic substance to create light. All of them require power, and most burn out every two years.

Now, what if all these could become nodes on a sensor network spanning the entire globe?

Research: Recession Grads May Wind Up Happier in the Long Run.

Soon after the class of 2009 collected their degrees, they stepped into the worst job market in a generation. Hiring for new college graduates had dropped 35 to 40 percent in only a year. Hiring for new PhDs, lawyers, architects, and journalists had plummeted as well. Even new graduates who managed to secure work often accepted jobs that did not require a college or graduate degree, and they typically earned substantially less than they would have if they had left school two years earlier.

Will all-in-one electric bicycle wheels swamp electric cars?

When debating the merits of electric cars, hybrids, hydrogen and other alternative fuels, it’s easy to get tied down in the notion they’re the solution to all our transport problems.

They aren’t, of course — they’re just a solution. Improvements to public transit, encouraging people to walk a little more and even the humble bicycle will play a part. The latter in particular is getting plenty of attention at the moment, as electrically-assisted biking gets ever more popular.

Practice Fusion Adds Another $15M From Qualcomm To Help Fuel Growth, Acquisitions & Mobile Push.

After raising a hefty $70 million in September, Practice Fusion, the makers of a popular Electronic Health Records (EHR) platform, are adding yet another round of coin to its coffers. Today’s $15 million investment is an extension to the company’s Series D raise in September, bringing the round to $85 million in total, with the company’s total funding raised to date standing just under $150 million.

La ventana de oportunidad para la 1ª edición del STARTUP CASE COMPETITION permanece abierta.

Hasta el día 31 de enero de 2014 será posible presentar un caso de startup de éxito a la 1ª edición del STARTUP CASE COMPETITION. Organizada por el BAC de MONDRAGON, la 1ª edición del STARTUP CASE COMPETITION pretende: - Aportar a las empresas de MONDRAGON información sobre casos de éxito de empresas de nueva creación y rápido crecimiento susceptibles de ser reproducidos en nuestro entorno. - Establecer un proceso de vigilancia competitiva en el ámbito de las propuestas de valor y modelos de negocio, que aporten nuevas perspectivas a los procesos de emprendimiento en MONDRAGON.

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An operating system for cities: How IBM plans to make your city smarter.

Cutting emergency response times in Rio de Janeiro by 30 percent? Reducing pollution in San Francisco’s Bay Area? Eliminating traffic congestion in Lyon, France?

Those are all things you can do … if you make your city smarter.

IBM calls it Intelligent Operations Center (IOC), and in the past three years has led over 2,000 projects to “monitor, measure, and manage city services such as water systems, public safety, transportation, hospitals, electricity grids, and buildings.” Just this past week, the company announced new projects in South Bend, Indiana, Davao, Philippines, and Lyon, France.

Top 10 tech trends for 2014: Wearables, 3D printers, mobile money, and more.

Juniper released its top 10 tech trends for 2014 today. And if the research firm is right, our cities are going to get smarter, our money is going digital, and we’ll be printing a lot more products at home.

Here’s a quick overview:

Colored Plastic Doubles Solar Cell Power.

A thin sheet of dyed plastic could cut the cost of solar power, particularly for applications that require solar cells to be highly efficient and flexible.

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are using the plastic to gather sunlight and concentrate it onto a solar cell made of gallium arsenide in an experimental setup. Doing so doubled the power output of the cells.

So far, the researchers have shown that the approach works with a single solar cell, but they plan to make larger sheets of plastic dotted with arrays of many tiny solar cells. The approach could either let a smaller solar panel produce more electricity, or make a panel cheaper by reducing the amount of photovoltaic material needed.

A Faster and More Efficient Way to Convert Carbon Dioxide into Fuel.

Making carbon dioxide by burning hydrocarbons is easy. A pair of novel catalysts recently made by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago could make it far more practical to do the reverse, converting carbon dioxide and water into fuel.

Because running this reaction normally requires large amounts of energy, it has been economical only in rare cases (see “Company Makes CO2 into Liquid Fuel, with Help from a Volcano”). But if the process could be done commercially, liquid fuels could be made from the exhaust gases of fossil-fuel power plants.