Quoted: A rising tide of companies are tapping Semantic Web technologies to unearth hard-to-find connections between disparate pieces of online data.

Quoted: The World Economic Forum has bestowed the coveted honor on 39 companies, which could become the Googles, a previous winner, of tomorrow.

Quoted: Michio Kaku (加來 道雄 Kaku Michio) (b. January 24, 1947) is an American theoretical physicist, specializing in string field theory, and a futurist. He is a popularizer of science, host of two radio programs, and a best-selling author.

Quoted: Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist and author of "Physics of the Impossible" about the improbable, and the very likely in the near future: phasers, force fields and time travel.

Quoted: OLED lighting World first floor lamp with a circular OLED On behalf of OSRAM Opto Semiconductors, LÖSCHE DESIGN designed the

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Quoted: Light emitting diodes, or LEDs, are widely used today in a variety of devices – they are often integrated in remote controls and toys, and are commonly used for street and traffic lighting. However, so far, LEDs have not become popular in the mainstream consumer market, probably because LED light sources emit strange ‘disturbing’ colors, and because they are significantly more expensive than traditional incandescent light bulbs. LSG says its new LED product line solves both of these issues, delivering a combination of high energy efficiency and light quality in a "cost effective" way.

Quoted: In Al Gore's brand-new slideshow (premiering exclusively on TED.com), he presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting, and challenges us to act with a sense of "generational mission" -- the kind of feeling that brought forth the civil rights movement -- to set it right. Gore's stirring presentation is followed by a brief Q&A in which he is asked for his verdict on the current political candidates' climate policies and on what role he himself might play in future.

CRISIS breeds opportunity, as the bottom-fishers starting to circle beaten-up mortgage bonds and leveraged loans can attest. For George Soros it offers a chance of a different sort: to revive his favourite intellectual theory. In his latest book, “The New Paradigm for Financial Markets”, published on April 3rd, he sets out to illuminate the credit crunch through the prism of “reflexivity.”

Quoted: Pondering the crisis, and peddling a new paradigm