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The main problem with both wind and solar energy is not their cost (which is falling satisfactorily with every passing year) but their intermittency. Supplying power to the grid when the air is calm or the sun below the horizon means storing a surplus when the day is blustery and the sun is up. And, at the moment, this is expensive. Cheap and

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion has lost its home-field advantage in Canada to Apple for the first time ever, another sign that the company is almost hopelessly broken when it comes to smartphone innovation. The long-time co-CEOs of RIM, Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, resigned from the company in January after 20 years and were replaced

Twitter is showing a continued commitment to its popular desktop and Web property TweetDeck with the release of an updated version that brings the “New-New Twitter” experience to Windows, Mac, and Chrome desktops. The new 1.3 version brings with it a bevy of new features that will keep Twitter-holics glued to even more columns for even

Hard drive manufacturer Seagate has become the first company of its kind to reach the storage density of 1Tbit (a trillion bits) per square inch, an incredible milestone that will lead to even larger hard drives, including a 60TB drive. The company was able to achieve the new density with a technology called heat-assisted