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Weighing slightly less than a size-zero supermodel, and much slimmer with it, the MacBook Air has created a bit of a buzz since its release. That's hardly surprising, as Apple… More Blog: Woz sticks it to Apple - again Pioneer gets out of the plasma game The botnets behind our spam Blu-ray win means time for high-def take-off More Technology .
Powerset Co-Founder to Launch Crowdsourced Green VC Fund
Yet another high-flying Silicon Valley entrepreneur is planning to capitalize on the growing popularity of "green" technology, and to do it, he's tapping the wisdom of crowds as well as their cash. Steve Newcomb, a co-founder of search startup Powerset, is in the early stages of launching a ventur- capital fund that would accept green investments as low as $100, with a maximum investment of $1,000. "It would be a breakthrough green venture-capital fund for the people, by the people. As excited as I was about PowerSet, I'm 10 times more excited about this," Newcomb told Wired.com. "Worldwide, there is the potential to raise a multibillion-dollar fund." Newcomb joins a high-profile list of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists who see energy as the big investment opportunity of the next century, including Silicon Valley heavyweights Vinod Khosla and John Doerr.
Category: Innovation
Between the Lines Latest Post | Last 10 Posts | Archives Offline Webtop access: Is it really a game changer? Posted in: General Software Infrastructure Web Technology Google Innovation The biggest thing this week in the world of Web software has been offline access, but it remains to be seen whether this is a real game changer or just a must-have addition that closes gaps with desktop software. At this week's Mix conference in Las Vegas the rich internet application announcements are fast and furious. But most efforts seem to be coalescing around offline access, which keeps Web apps useful even when there's no connectivity. To wit: Google has announced that it is taking Google Gears to mobile.
Festival teens cue cameras
Filmmaker Peter Entell, center, discusses presidential politics with True/False Filmmakers Bootcamp participants, from left, Anthony Orazio and Justice Boyes, who interviewed him yesterday at Stephens College. Boot camp participants are gathering interviews and video to produce a 2-minute documentary over a two-day period. The workshop is being taught by local amateur filmmakers Myke Gemkow and Michael Wilson. .
Tortured by memories
They would just chalk up his moodiness and drinking to his years in a native residential school, like a war veteran tortured by memories of combat. "We never went to the police about him," Williams, 67, said from his home in Hazelton, B.C. "The other fellows kept telling me we should have, but I'd tell them nobody would believe us and then we'd be put in jail." .
The Clinton cabal
When he repeatedly complains that the press has given Mr. Obama a free ride and over-investigated the Clintons, he seems to be tempting the fates, given all the reporting still to be done on his post-presidential business. When he says, as he did on Monday, that “whatever I do should be totally transparent," it's almost as if he's setting himself up for a fall. There's little more transparency at “Little Rock's Fort Knox" than there is at Giuliani Partners. Giving the Clintons another term of free rent at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue will not solve the excesses of the past eight years of George W. Bush. Clinton supporters like to trumpet the economic prosperity that existed during his two terms but they ignore the fact that the economic rebound started a month before Bill Clinton took office.
With decision to donate kidney, man gives gift of two lifetimes
He wanted to be sure the recipient would take good care of the donated kidney and not abuse drugs or alcohol. The first attempt at a transplant went horribly wrong and Hughes nearly died on the operating table, but he did not take back his offer. Instead, he reassured Sherman and his wife, Linda, that he would try again, finally giving his gift of life on Feb. 26. "I wanted to donate to someone who would be a good candidate to live a full life," explained the soft-spoken Hughes, who works as a website designer so that he can be home with his two young sons while his wife pursues her career as a Pittsburgh police detective. "It wasn't based on religion. It was based on someone in need." On Saturday, members of Sherman's synagogue, Temple Emeth in Chestnut Hill, celebrated Hughes's stunning generosity, which saved the life of one of their most charismatic members.
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