Tag: iPhone

  • Rare Earth Mine

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    In Alaska, Rare Earth Discovery Pits Jobs Against Environment New America Media, News Feature, Steve Fisher HYDABURG, Alaska — James Bell, 50, sits carving the intricate details of an arm into a totem pole in his shop in this sleepy, coastal southeastern Alaska town. He wears glasses with a snap-on set of bifocals to better guide…

  • The “Portable Toxic Threat Detector” lets you know if your food is safe to eat

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    If you are interested in knowing what’s in your food, you may soon be able to use the portable toxic threat detector or PTTD, a mechanism developed by third year electronics and telecommuncation engineering students at GH Raisoni College of Engineering, Saurabh Puranik, Shreya Dhondarikar, Sagar Nasre and Sowmya Singh.  It will not only tell you…

  • New App Lets You Boycott Koch Brothers, Monsanto And More By Scanning Your Shopping Cart

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    By: Clare O’Connor, Forbes Staff Buycott shows you a product’s corporate family tree while you shop. In her keynote speech at last year’s annual Netroots Nation gathering, Darcy Burnerpitched a seemingly simple idea to the thousands of bloggers and web developers in the audience. The former Microsoft MSFT +1.51%programmer and congressional candidate proposed a smartphone app allowing shoppers to swipe…