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1st July 2012 Archive

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  • ICANN’s archery contest misses its target

    Systems all a-quiver

    Confusion continues to surround ICANN’s gTLD program, with the organization canceling the “digital archery” program it had planned to determine the winners of contested generic TLDs. Digital Archery” is now not even lurching towards reality: ICANN hasn’t worked out a replacement process for the land-grab domain releases. In “ …

    Business 1 Jul 21:37

  • Stanford boosts century-old battery tech

    Graphene speeds up ‘Edison battery’

    A group of Stanford University scientists is claiming a breakthrough using graphene that would bring nickel-iron batteries into the modern world. Originally an invention of Thomas Edison, nickel-iron batteries are durable but slow, both for charging and discharging. Although they only lasted in their original application – …

    Science 1 Jul 22:00