Science & Technology – Week of 01.12.14

Harvard Research Team has Breakthrough on Battery Storage
OilPrice.com | 13 January 2014
As the world slowly transitions away from energy based on burning hydrocarbons…

Anti-NSA Blackphone: Encrypted Smartphone Designed to Liberate Users From Total Surveillance
RT | 16 January 2014
Silent Circle – an encryption firm that has made it its mission to defy NSA snooping – is releasing what it says will be the world’s most secure smartphone…

Detroit Touts Clean, Efficient Diesels, But America Isn’t Sold
NPR | 16 January 2014
At the North American International Auto Show in Detroit this week, it’s not all hybrids and battery-powered cars…

China Cloning on an ‘Industrial Scale’
BBC News | 13 January 2014
You hear the squeals of the pigs long before reaching a set of long buildings set in rolling hills in southern China…