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There is a bunch of buzz today about a New York Times article which covers the ramp up in Facebook Connect sites launching. It has sparked a dialogue among a few about data portability and what the future holds. I’m not quite sure if the New York Times article is a sign of an impending public release of Facebook Connect or if the story is really that a few pre-announced partner sites are preparing to launch their sites.
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Whatever the case is, Facebook Connect has continued to rollout on a number of sites over the past month and that trend will continue. Almost a month ago Facebook announced that they would begin accepting site submissions. Unfortunately since then we have had few updates on the status of site submissions and what developers’ experience had been.
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So far none of the sites mentioned in the New York Times article appear to have live versions of Facebook Connect. Mike Arrington is saying that yesterday was the day that Facebook began making their full court press on the media but the only indication we’ve seen of that is the New York Times article. Congrats to Facebook on a large print article in the New York Times, I’m sure it’s well deserved!
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One interesting tidbit coming out of Arrington’s article is that Twitter is going to hold off on MySpace Data Portability integration until they have rolled out their Facebook Connect support. I’m not sure what additional benefits their will be over the existing Twitter Facebook application. It’s clear that the battle for major partners is ramping up and so far the clear winner is Facebook as no large partners have publicly rolled out their implementation of MySpace’s previously announced Data Portability service.
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If most partners decide to use Facebook Connect over MySpace’s service, Google’s Friend Connect service is going to face an uphill battle expanding its reach. When Facebook rolled out their platform last year, they became the default social platform for developers. That trend looks like it will continue as social networks race to expand their identity management service to the rest of the web.
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Benoit Mandelbrot is a true maverick, as his interview reveals.
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What exactly is the Mandelbrot set? Find out in this excerpt from the book Fractals: The Patterns of Chaos.
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Create and save your own wildly colorful fractals using our generator.
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Explore the infinite detail of a Mandelbrot set as you zoom to a magnification of 250,000,000x.
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Major funding for "Hunting the Hidden Dimension" is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
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Businesses function most efficiently when all employees understand their jobs and the proper procedures. Setting up an organizational structure helps employees understand what their roles are within the company and who to address when decisions must be made. A strong organizational structure keeps your business running smoothly with a clear plan for overcoming obstacles.
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The basic function of an organizational structure is to provide a clear chain of command and define which employees report to which managers. Many companies use multiple levels of management, where an associate reports to a manager who then reports to a director. The directors often report directly to the owners. The structure also shows who conducts performance evaluations for which employee: managers for associates and directors for managers, for example.
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Creating an organizational structure usually helps define teams who work closely together. These teams can be organized by department type, such as accounting or marketing, or by geographic region, such as all sales and administrative staff serving the Southeast. A team can also include all staff working on a specific project or product. The structure sets the teams, which typically report to the same manager or director. This helps ensure that all the staff members on the team are working toward the same goal, have well-defined job duties and can get to know each other to help balance each others' strengths and weaknesses.
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Employees understand to take important decisions to their managers, who might escalate them up the ladder if necessary. A structure helps define exactly who is the correct decision maker for each employee, although some businesses allow employees more decision-making abilities than others. In retail businesses, employees might make customer service decisions within certain parameters, such as refunds up to $100. In a marketing department, the staff can order collateral pieces up to the project's budget without management approval, for example. However, the organizational structure helps clearly define which decisions need management approval and who to go to for those decisions. Also, it shows who that manager reports to when decision appeals are necessary.
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Employees often are motivated by the opportunity to advance within the company for more responsibility and higher pay. An organizational structure provides that advancement opportunity with higher-level positions and a clear understanding of what those positions are responsible for. A successful structure assigns job duties to positions instead of people. As the people advance or change positions, the new person filling the vacancy takes on the same duties as the previous employee. This allows people who advance to know what duties will be expected in their new positions and to train the people who take over their old positions.
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WESTPORT, Mass. (AP) — Former Massachusetts state Sen. Brian Joyce, who was awaiting trial on federal corruption charges, was found dead in his home Thursday, authorities said.
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Joyce, 56, was found dead by his wife, according to a statement from Gregg Miliote, a spokesman for the Bristol District Attorney’s office.
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“Foul play is not suspected in the death at this time,” said Miliote.
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The state’s chief medical examiner planned to conduct an autopsy and the investigation remained “active and ongoing,” the spokesman said.
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Joyce’s attorney, Howard Cooper, had maintained that his client was innocent of all the charges against him.
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WCVB-TV reported Thursday that Joyce had been involved in a car crash on Wednesday, but it was unclear if that incident was connected in any way to his death.
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A 63-year-old Glendale man was arrested Monday after he allegedly brandished a knife at a woman in a Starbucks parking lot after she confronted him about an unpaid loan, police said.
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Vahik Avaness was taken into custody on suspicion of brandishing a knife and making threats, according to Glendale police reports. He was released later that day.
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The woman allegedly saw Avaness sitting in his Toyota Camry about 1 p.m. and decided to block him in with her Nissan Altima in the Starbucks parking lot on the 1700 block of West Glenoaks Boulevard.
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She demanded his address and asked for repayment, but he allegedly refused to tell her.
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Instead, Avaness allegedly got of the car, stood in front of her and lifted his shirt to expose a metal knife in his waistband, according to police.
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The loan amount was not disclosed in police records.
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Avaness immediately fled on foot, but the woman tried to follow him.
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Officers later found and detained Avaness at a shopping plaza on Glenoaks Boulevard, where he reportedly told police the woman had been following him around to retrieve the money he borrowed from her.
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Off the back of her Australian documentary Felicity’s Mental Mission (ABC1/ABC2) about mental illness and irritable bowel syndrome, Felicity delves into the depths of her depression, anxiety and IBS.
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The show is a follow-on from last year’s sell-out five-star show What If There Is No Toilet? which recently won the New Zealand Comedy Festival Best International Show.
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Now comes 50 Per Cent More Likely To Die, a show which reflects the fact that people with anxiety and depression are 50 per cent more likely to die in any number of circumstances. As Felicity says, it made her wonder if she could go further into mental illness and still make people laugh.
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LONDON, Sept 17 (Reuters) - British online fashion retailer Boohoo has recruited an executive of Primark to be its new chief executive, it said on Monday.
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The company said John Lyttle, currently the chief operating officer of Primark, a division of Associated British Foods , will start his new role on March 15 next year.
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Boohoo said Mahmud Kamani, currently joint chief executive, will become group executive chairman of the company from the same date, while Carol Kane, currently joint chief executive, will remain on the main board in an executive role and will assume the title of group co-founder and executive director.
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LILLINGTON — A Hope Mills man is accused of fatally shooting another man today during a domestic dispute at a residence off N.C. 87 near Buffalo Lake Road, the Harnett County Sheriff's Office said.
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Brian Paul Massey, 29, of the 6100 block of Twiggs Court, is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Jason I. Spriggs, 35, a Sheriff's Office release said.
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The shooting was reported at 12:24 p.m. Spriggs' residence off Mallie Drive in Cameron. The home is in the Overlook Mobile Home Park off N.C. 87 South.
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Spriggs was found dead near his residence. Massey remained on the scene until law enforcement arrived, the release said.
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Investigators seized a vehicle at the residence. Massey's bail was set at $500,000.
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Ever since Apple launched its first iPad in April 2010, people have been debating the impact of tablets on netbooks. For Acer, which rode a wave of netbook sales into the ranks of the top 3 PC makers a few years ago, the topic is familiar and a bit exasperating.
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The PC giant, like rivals HP, Dell, Lenovo and Asus, is currently launching tablets and preparing a number of tablets for release later this year. Acer also continues to develop new netbooks, some of which will be introduced later this summer, in time for back-to-school sales.
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One major factor is the price gap between netbooks and tablets. The iPad, which costs between $499 and $829, depending on memory and connectivity, continues to dictate prices for tablets. Nearly all tablets, accordingly, cost more than $400. Netbooks, in contrast, tend to be $299 or less, with many in the $250 range.
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Acer’s best-selling netbook on Amazon.com for the past week, a 10.1-inch Aspire One model, costs $252. The average price of the current 10 best-selling netbooks on Amazon.com is $305. The average price of the current 10 best-selling tablets on Amazon is $472.
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Acer executives also point to the sophisticated features that are being packed into $250 netbooks, some of which are on par with far more expensive devices. “You’re really getting closer to notebook performance [with these netbooks],” says Product Manager John Karabian.
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Acer also continues to believe that having a physical, rather than virtual/touchscreen keyboard is a necessity for many consumers, particularly those that need a mobile computing device for work purposes.
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The company’s stance is somewhat incongruous with recent internal events. In late March, Acer replaced its longtime Chief Executive Gianfranco Lanci, reportedly for failing to recognize the importance of emerging devices like tablets.
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Acer has since established a business division dedicated to the development and management of tablets and smartphones. The reorganization recognizes that phones and tablets share common operating systems and hardware that notebooks often do not. Karabian says the new unit will unite resources that were previously “fragmented” across the company.
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Acer may have identified a resurgent trend. A May 3 Barclays Capital research note cited recent “netbook growth” as benefiting the overall PC market.
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An Oakland school police sergeant is raising more questions about whether the Oakland Unified School District interfered with the investigation into a high-profile officer-involved shooting that left a 20-year-old man dead.
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Sgt. Jonathan Bellusa spoke exclusively to the Investigative Unit to reveal his account of what happened the night his partner Sgt. Barhin Bhatt shot and killed Raheim Brown in self-defense. Bellusa said he believes the Oakland Unified School District violated its own policies in an attempt to get both sergeants’ stories to match, and that when he tried to question the procedure he was shut down and retaliated against.
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On the night of Jan. 22, 2011 Bellusa and Bhatt were on patrol outside Skyline High School’s winter dance. The two sergeants approached a car with flashing hazard lights. Inside, they found Brown and a female driver, and the smell marijuana in what they believed to be a stolen car. When Brown refused to get out of the car and attempted to stab Bellusa with a screwdriver, Bhatt fired multiple shots at Brown, killing him.
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As the investigation into the shooting unfolded, Bellusa says he began to question the process. In a sworn deposition he gave in February, Bellusa said that he and Bhatt were sequestered and awaiting questions from Oakland Police Department homicide investigators. He testified that before he gave his statement to OPD, school district superintendent Tony Smith and then school police chief Peter Sarna began asking their own questions about what happened. Bellusa said that the school district’s attorney Jacqueline Minor was also in the room.
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According to the deposition, Bellusa said that Smith “wanted to know what happened.” He said he told them that Brown started stabbing at him, that Barhin shot him and that he saw a gun in the car.
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When asked if the superintendent said anything else Bellusa stated, “There was a time he left the room and he came back and then he said specifically, 'Jon, tell me where the gun was. Tell me everything you can remember about the gun and what it looked like.'” Bellusa said that conversation took place before OPD investigators interviewed him.
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OUSD spokesman Troy Flint said the administrators acted appropriately, though they would not comment further for this story because of pending litigation.
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Flint questions why Bellusa didn’t speak out about his concerns until months after the shooting and said the department is investigating questionable behavior Bellusa exhibited.
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“I can’t say anything stronger at this point,” Flint said.
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Bellusa is currently on paid administrative leave. He said he was approved for stress leave in Sept. 2011, and that just days later he was put under investigation—he claims as retaliation. He denies any notion that he is a problem child for the school police department and that he is speaking out only for personal gain.
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“I got promoted to sergeant and watch commander and put my heart and soul into that department,” Bellusa said, adding that he was once named interim police chief in 2009.
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Bellusa first came forward to the Investigative Unit in February to expose what he calls a cover up in the district’s police force. At that time, Bellusa’s attorney Dan Siegel submitted a claim to the district, which OUSD rejected. Siegel plans to file a formal lawsuit against the district on Wednesday alleging that the district retaliated against Bellusa for his refusal to conform his testimony to that of Bhatt.
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Siegel said it won’t just be Bellusa’s word against district administrators.
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“There are other people in OPD whose identities will be disclosed, who will testify that the way the district handled this was all wrong and the way they interfered with the investigation,” Siegel said.
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Best Buy is pulling CDs off shelves this summer, Forbes introduces its first list of Cryptocurrency’s richest people, and Uber confirms the two hackers who breached their data were found to be in Canada and Florida.
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It’s the end of an era. People on LinkedIn are reeling from Best Buy’s latest announcement that it will stop selling CDs in all its stores by this summer. CD sales have been declining at Best Buy since 2000, while the rise of MP3s, followed by the invention of streaming services like Apple Music and Spotify, have simplified access to music. According to reports, Target could be the next retailer to pull CDs off shelves. Isn’t it more of a surprise that this hasn’t happened already?
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Forbes’ first list of cryptocurrency’s richest people is gaining traction on Twitter. Ten of the 19 prophets of boom hover near $1 billion, and Forbes says there are close to 1,500 crypto-assets in existence, valued at approximately $550 billion, up 31 times since the beginning of 2017. The average age of the cryptocurrency’s richest people is 42, while the average age of the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans, is 67. Fast-track retirement plan, here I come.
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And on Facebook, a lot of chatter around the two people who hacked Uber in 2016. John Flynn, chief information security officer for Uber, testified on Capitol Hill in Washington and revealed details about the breach. One of the men who hacked Uber was in Florida. His partner was in Canada, and contacted the company November 2016 to demand a six-figure payment. Flynn said Uber made a mistake in not reporting the breach to consumers and law enforcement immediately. Uber Canada announced late last year that 815,000 Canadian riders and drivers may have been affected. The company’s security team paid the intruders $100,000 after receiving assurances that the stolen data had been destroyed.
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Never mind the Lady Gagas, Here's... Linda Perhacs?
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Most likely you haven't heard of Linda Perhacs and most likely you've heard of Lady Gaga. Still, Gaga really made one so-so album she's been pimping to death for about 3 years (reversions, remixes, "singles," etc.). Linda Perhacs, on the other hand, also made one album back in 1970, but that one album is AMAZING and you should own a copy of it.
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Did you get it? Good--then you know what we're talking about.
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Now that we're all on the same page, you should know Linda is playing this weekend at the New Los Angeles Folk Festival at HM 157 in Lincoln Heights. The festival is organized by our contributor Daiana Feuer, who has become a committed supporter of the more acoustic side of contemporary performing scenes. Daiana is a relentless cheerleader on behalf of good folk music in Los Angeles and her booking of cult singer Linda Perhacs links her efforts to a grand tradition of warm, smart LA sounds.
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Catch the New Los Angeles Festival this Saturday, August 7th at HM 157, 3110 N. Broadway, 90031, from 2:30 to Midnight. Admission is only $15. Perhacs' set is scheduled for 10:30 pm.
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Beard contest, raffle, Metl tequila & mezcal specials, O.N.E. coconut water, food by The Little Frenchie truck, and many surprises to be announced.
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Festival proceeds will go to the Environmental Defense Fund's Gulf oil crisis relief efforts. Watch the Les Shelleys PSA about The New LA Folk Fest's charitable cause.
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So an iPhone 9 Concept, Maybe?
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Just to be clear: this does not purport to be anything like the iPhone 5. In fact, it almost certainly isn't. But I can still hope in my secret heart that we'll be seeing an iPhone like this someday, right?
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The only feature showcased in this CGI, just-for-kicks mockup by Aatma Studio here that may actually show up in the next iPhone is the full-width display, although that razor-thinness is tantalizing, too. But wait, no, it's not about that. Comparing this to any real idea of the iPhone 5 is like comparing your dream of Abraham Lincoln to an actual photograph of Abraham Lincoln and being reminded that Real Lincoln's beard is shorter and his hat is crookeder and he doesn't shoot justice lasers from his eyeballs.
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Batteries are hot right now - literally in the case of Samsung's Galaxy Note 7.
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The investigation into what caused the overheating in the smartphone concluded, unsurprisingly, that it was a fault in the design and manufacturing of the batteries.
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But what also emerged was the growing pressure to deliver ever more from a smartphone within a confined space with Samsung's DJ Koh admitting that the company might have been asking too much of the battery.
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That pressure will not lessen, either in the smartphone industry or in a range of others dependent on stored energy. If there's one area of technology where most consumers would like to see progress, it's in battery performance.
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Whether it be in giving electric cars a greater range or in storing solar energy during the day for use in homes overnight, the race is on around the world to invent better batteries.
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In the UK, the business secretary Greg Clark made clear in an interview on the Today programme that he thought battery technology was a key area where scientists and businesses could give the country a competitive advantage.
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I wondered whether the UK was quite as strong in this technology as he claimed but, having asked on Twitter for examples, it does seem that we have plenty of expertise, although much of it is still at the research stage rather than being reflected in products reaching consumers.
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One exception is a company called Moixa which is installing smart batteries in homes with the promise that customers can cut bills by storing energy. So far, its product is in just 700 homes but its chief executive Simon Daniel is nothing if not ambitious.
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"We are like a mini-Tesla," he told me. "Our ambition is to be in one million homes." He claims that could save consumers £8bn a year and transform the way the power grid operates, dealing with the intermittent nature of wind and solar power.
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And he's bullish about the wider battery research landscape: "The UK is definitely well ahead in battery tech - we have massive leadership in chemistry innovation, and are very good at power engineering in terms of systems, and in business models."
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In terms of that chemistry innovation, there are promising advances emerging from a number of British universities. A collaboration between the universities of Surrey and Bristol and a company called Augmented Optics has developed a supercapacitor which scientists say could be up to 10,000 times more powerful than existing battery technology.
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"You could drive from London to Edinburgh, have a cup of coffee while the car recharged, then drive back," says Dr Brendan Howlin, explaining the potential of this breakthrough.
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Dr Howlin, senior lecturer in Computer Aided Chemistry at Surrey University says it is vitally important that projects like this make progress now. He says battery technology - at least in terms of what is available to consumers - has not advanced much in the last decade. "We need a product that charges quickly and discharges slowly."
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He estimates that the supercapacitor idea may take another five years to make an impact on our lives, with lots of new infrastructure in terms of charging stations needed to make it viable.
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There are other projects in the UK - Nissan's Sunderland plant will be producing batteries for electric vehicles, and Dyson plans to invest £1bn in developing new battery technology by 2020.
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