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Pokémon’s Big Carbon Footprint Illustrates Energy Reality

The astonishing success of Nintendo’s augmented-reality (AR) game, Pokémon GO, is a harbinger of yet another digital revolution. It’s also a teaching moment for the inconvenient—or at least generally ignored—truth of the ineluctable linkages between the cyber and physical worlds. Virtual worlds live inside the real worlds of massive communications and Cloud computing infrastructures manufactured with real not virtual materials and consuming real energy.

The Tesla And Solar City Merger Is Rooted In Battery Derangement Syndrome

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla [NASDAQ:TSLA], plans to buy his cousin’s company, Solar City [NASDAQ:SCTY]. That has generated a lot of head-scratching in financial circles about how it will work out. Some facts commonly cited: Tesla is the most successful and biggest electric car company the world has ever seen.

Why The Next President Should Seize Shale’s Unprecedented Geopolitical Opportunity

We now have clarity—even if it was assumed before—as to one more political chasm in this election cycle. At issue is “fracking” and the future for America’s enormous new shale energy industry.

Drone Disruption: The Stakes, The Players, And The Opportunities

Yes. It is a revolution. But it’s still early days, so the landscape is complex.

Even if you have no immediate plans to buy a drone (yet), a lot of people do. In a few years we’ve gone from a hobbyist niche to an estimated one million consumer-class or small-business drones sold last year in the U.S. alone. Such a steep growth curve has all the earmarks of a new product category.

Russia’s Big Worry Is Not What The Pentagon Thinks But What Shale Frackers Will Do To Oil Prices

Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter ruffled feathers this week when, in a February 2nd speech at the Economic Club of Washington D.C., he demoted ISIS and terrorism, to the bottom of a list of key threats to America’s national security. At the top of the list of “five evolving challenges”? Russia.

Creepy Barbie? Brace Yourself For The Internet Of Toys

The Internet of Things is supposed to be a hot space. But as one tech pundit earlier said, who cares if your toaster can talk back. Instead, brace yourself for the Internet of Toys as everything from Barbie and Yoda, to Transformers and even Lego blocks become connected