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California's "bottle the sunlight" initiative attracts venture capitalists

California's legislation to "bottle the sunlight" attracted venture capitalists and other major companies in an energy race to 2020.


Space and the Perseid Meteor Shower

The Perseid meteor shower's annual show is set to occur in the next few weeks. The annual Perseid meteor shower would be occurring tonight. Around this time each year, the Earth would be passing through the intergalactic orbit of a comet named Swift Tuttle.

Powerball winners high chance of becoming losers

The latest winner of the Powerball jackpot face great financial issues in the future. One of the largest prizes for a Powerball lottery was won by a group of New Jersey employees.

The cost of NSA leaks on cloud computing

One of the first victims of the Snowden affair was the closure of secure email service provider Lavabit.


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President Barack Obama proposed the gradual elimination of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to speed up recovery in the housing sector.
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US District Judge Denise Cote is considering the possibility of restricting Apple from making contracts with publishers for five years.