According to Venture Capital (VC) database CB Insights, the total amount of venture capital financing hit $29.2 billion across 3,354 deals in 2013. What's interesting is the number of overall VC deals has remained relatively flat over the past three years, as have the total investments (holding Q1 of 2012 as an outlier).
At California's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the world's most powerful computers are working on some of our most fundamental questions about the universe. The Sierra supercomputer, for example, is delving into the Big Bang and trying to figure out why elementary particles have mass.
FAIRFIELD, Conn. -- June 6, 2014 -- The Board of Directors of GE [NYSE: GE] today declared a $0.22 per share dividend on the outstanding common stock of the Company payable on July 25, 2014, with a record date of June 23, 2014 and an ex-dividend date of June 19, 2014.
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Many patients regard the dental office as a house of pain -- a place to be endured, with literally a stiff upper lip, when they can’t avoid it. But a few dentists have started to soften that image by using a laser rather than the fearsome drill for such procedures as removing tooth decay and filling cavities.
Much has already been said about how big data is dramatically changing the way that organizations make decisions. Today, more data is being created from more places than ever before. Blogs, Facebook, YouTube videos, retailer loyalty cards, mobile phones, and sensors on buildings are producing tons of data daily.
The majority of the 160,000 Allied troops that invaded occupied France on this day 70 years ago arrived on ships and landing vessels. But some 13,000 parachuted early on D-Day from planes flown by pilots who had already been fighting over Europe since 1940.
Future surgeries requiring a doctor to dive deep into the body might be made considerably less invasive thanks to an unlikely inspiration: a parasitic fig wasp.
EMPA materials scientist Kerstin Thorwarth displays the diamond-like carbon coated intervertebral disc joint implant.
Three intervertebral disc implants. Uncoated implant (right), DLC-coated implant with unsatisfactory bonding agent and the corresponding corrosion (middle) and stable DLC-coated implant (left).
