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SF Gate
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It's like a James Bond film come to life. A company based on a tiny island in the British archipelago parachuted into San Jose on Thursday to become the first private team to enter a race to reach the moon by 2014 and thereby pocket most of a $30 million..
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BBC News
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Search giant Google is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in renewable energy technologies.
The Californian firm wants to make green energy sources of electricity cheaper than that produced from coal.
Its new initiative is known as RE < C, an..
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BBC News
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The constellations of Andromeda, Hydra and Vulpecula are now just a mouse click away for amateur star-gazers, following the launch of Google Sky.
The tool is an add-on to Google Earth, a program that allows users to search a 3D rendition of our planet'..
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New York Times
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Have you ever made a profit from a catering business or dog walking? Do you prefer to work alone or in groups? Have you ever set a world record in anything?..
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Tree Hugger
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Yes, that's right, groves of pole-mounted solar panels, so-called "solar trees" are the newest addition to Google's ambitious solar project for their Mountain View, California, headquarters. Estimated to feed about 30 percent of the complex's entire..
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NASA
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NASA Ames Research Center, located in the heart of California’s Silicon Valley, and Mountain View-based Google Inc. today announced plans to collaborate on a number of technology-focused research-and-development activities that will couple some of Earth..
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BBC News
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Google is backing fuel-efficient, hybrid cars as part of a plan to make the entire firm carbon neutral by 2008.
The company's philanthropic arm, Google.org, will give $1m in grants to encourage the adoption of hybrids.
It has pledged a further $10m..
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