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Take the Pricing Leap

2013-02-01 21:13:00| Corn & Soybean Digest

Talk of the fiscal cliff wore me down. It reminded me of the buzz surrounding Y2K at the new millennium. What happened on January 1, 2000? The sun rose in the East and I had a cup of coffee. Life as we know it continued to march forward. I expected the same from a fiscal cliff. read more

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Hands-on with Leap Motion's hands-off 3D 'mouse'

2013-01-29 12:00:00| InfoWorld: Top News

If I say "controlling items on your screen simply by using hand gestures," your first thought is likely the movie "Minority Report," right? Well, Leap Motion's new UI device and software will do that soon if you'd like. But the company is thinking even bigger. Leap Motion's vision is not merely to replace the mouse or the touchscreen, but to tear down the idea that you have to interact with your computing devices via some other piece of hardware. You don't grab a mouse or poke a screen. You just move your hands in 3D space, as this promo video shows:

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Menhaden makes legislative leap

2013-01-24 06:44:39| Livestock - Topix.net

The perennial battle over a small, oily baitfish appears poised, finally, for resolution in the General Assembly, with matching bills to develop a menhaden management plan making their way through the legislature.

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China's green leap backward

2013-01-19 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

The Nation: Signaling China's ambition to be the world's leader in solar energy, Beijing officials announced in January that the country had installed an impressive seven gigawatts of solar power capacity in 2012 and would add an additional ten gigawatts this year. The bold announcement is consistent with the "Green Leap Forward,' China's goal to assert global leadership in renewable energy and low-carbon development. At the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen three years ago, Wu Changhua,...

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