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Reflective Plastic Replaces Glass in Solar Energy Conversion

Chris Huntington, vice president of business development at SkyFuel, announced that the company's new parabolic troughs were made of reflective plastic-coated silver, instead of the usual mirrored glass other power plants throughout the world employ. Tough it may seem to be more expensive at first glance, Huntin...

10 October 2008
04:55 GMT

California RFID Anti-Skimming Bill Signed into Law

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Senate Bill 31, which makes it illegal to establish a connection with a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag in order to access the stored information without explicit consent from its owner. The Governor had previously vetoed another bill (SB 768), which aimed at...

6 October 2008
06:44 GMT

Sienna Miller Flashes Again

Sienna Miller definitely needs to make some major changes in her life as soon as possible. The sexy British exhibitionist, who has long and rich history of flashing various private body parts on camera, has done it again. Only yesterday, Miller - who is currently spending her holidays to the States with her boyfriend...

15 April 2008
06:53 GMT

Trolls Remain Anonymous, and That's the Law!

California, the state that decided that there can be no smoking in public places (bars, pubs and clubs included), just made another decision that will be regarded by some Internet users as crazy in a very annoying way. A court has just declared that trolls are to remain anonymous, because what they write are mostly a...

8 February 2008
15:46 GMT

High-Tech Tools Help Fight Wildfires

Out of control fires this late October rampaging through California didn't wield shovels and houses, but rather high-tech technologies developed at the University of California. The use of these tools not only helped the region respond and recover, but save lives as well. These unpredictable fires exploit the f...

8 November 2007
08:51 GMT

Special California Photos Now in Google Earth

Following the recent damages caused by the South California fires, the Mountain View company decided to help the authorities and designed a special Google Earth layer containing high-resolution photos with the area in order to show all the details that can be discovered from the satellite. The Google Earth content is...

25 October 2007
02:40 GMT

Porn Has One Up On Arnold

What do you normally expect to find when you surf to a government website? Well, I for one, hope to find official statements, news about initiatives, things that concern a certain country and a lot of info on politics. I guess that everyone would expect to find the same things. Well, things are a bit different when t...

5 October 2007
14:41 GMT

Data Security or Bust!

Now, here's some good news - this is a rare thing in cyber-security - the Californian government just issued an act that expands a data breach law. All that is needed for this new bill to pass is the governor's (Arnold Schwarzenegger) signature and the new "Consumer Data Protection Act" is going to be offic...

17 September 2007
05:11 GMT

Shocking - Microsoft Loses Its Senior VP of IEB - Peter Moore Resigns

Yes, you read that right: Microsoft's Corporate Vice-President of the Interactive Entertainment Business division (including the Xbox and Xbox 360 game consoles), Peter Moore has resigned from his position with the company. He's not unemployed though (I'm sure at least one person asked himself/herself ...

18 July 2007
03:47 GMT

PS3 Is Not the Reason for Sony's Laying Off 100 Staff Members

It seems that although Sony is laying off some of its people, this restructuring is not directly linked to the PS3's bad start. What start...? It's been released for quite some time now and it's still lagging behind its competitors. Read on below to find out what Sony meant by "streamlining operations....

7 June 2007
09:52 GMT

Google Signs Deal with Four US States

Arizona, California, Utah and Virginia. Four famous US states that will represent an opened source of information for all the Internet users that will google for certain keywords. The Mountain View-based company agreed with the four states' authorities to return more information about these locations, including ...

30 April 2007
06:56 GMT




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