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Planet Metrics on Tuesday joined the ranks of carbon-software specialists with the launch of its emissions modeling software and the announcement of .3 million in funding.

The San Francisco-based start-up said that it completed its series A round with participation from venture-capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson and angel investors.
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Like it or not California, it’s about time you folks ponied up for a serious rail system. With the recent passage of Proposition 1A, the wheels have started to churn on a sophisticated bullet train system that will eventually link San Diego in the south with Sacramento in the north, with stops at [...]

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Blasting some music while riding a bike isn’t a terribly exciting or technologically novel concept. In the mid 80’s grown men would hoist a boombox pumping Run-D.M.C with one arm while controlling their beach cruiser with the other. The Cy-Fi wireless speaker (9.95) is a long overdue evolution in cycle speakers and it’s a bit [...]

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“Green chemistry” start-up Genomatica on Tuesday said that it has developed a process to use sugar, rather than petroleum, to produce a common industrial chemical.

The announcement, timed to coincide with the GoingGreen conference in San Francisco this week, is a milestone for the company which made a business strategy …
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FORT BAKER, Calif.–Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla has a message for and about the clean-tech industry: it’s not about style, it’s about substance.
San Francisco, for example, likes to show off its solar-panel installation at the Moscone convention center, he said. “But it’s a foggy city,” …
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From the right, clean-tech investor Steve Westly, Google.org exec Dan Reicher, climate change advisor Aimee Christensen, U.C. Berkeley Professor Daniel Kammen, and Clean Tech for Obama co-chair Jeff Anderson speak at San Francisco's Hastings Law School.
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This week’s Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco kept us all busy this week, with plenty of new components and products that use them. We’ll start off with the event host, Intel, which announced small-form-factor versions of its Centrino 2 processors (that should …
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When the Intel Developer Forum kicks off Tuesday in San Francisco, the theme of low power will be high on the agenda of topics.

Nehalem can deliver greater performance at the same power consumption level of the Core 2 architecture, Intel says.
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Last week, Google released a beta application that provides walking directions in major cities such as New York, San Francisco, and Minneapolis. It’s another sign that the search giant is getting even more specific about “organizing the world’s information,” right down to the sidewalk in front of your house. If you want to walk from [...]

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