Science & Technology – Week of 02.16.14

Fusion Breakthrough Reported…And a Look Back
Giza Death Star | 19 February 2014
This one was sent to me by many of you, and it is one of those stories that requires being mentioned…

World’s Largest Solar Plant Opens in California. Is It the Future, or a Dead End?
Future Tense | 13 February 2014
Sprawling across 3,500 acres of the Mojave Desert is a system of gleaming mirrors…

Google Partnering With Foxconn to Test Industrial Robots
SingularityHUB | 16 February 2014
Perhaps in hindsight we all should have seen Google’s turn to robotics coming when…

Gene Therapy Ingenious
The Economist | 06 February 2014
Fixing a body’s broken genes is becoming possible…

What Wi-Fi’s Popularity Means for Cell Phone Carriers
Bloomberg | 02 January 2014
David Morken holds a Moto X smartphone out for inspection…