Cdn-born inventor of long-lasting batteries dies
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MIDDLEBURG HEIGHTS, Ohio - The man who invented the small, long-lasting alkaline batteries that power Walkmans, Gameboys and other portable devices has died.
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By Kovsky, Eddie  Over the course of her career, Ann Rincon has enjoyed watching the technology she creates go into use.  Rincon, a senior scientist at AMI Semiconductor in Pocatello, has spent 25 years designing microprocessor circuits. It's an industry that has continued to evolve.
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Problems designing accessories that don't drain the Chevrolet Volt's lithium-ion batteries have General Motors adopting "redundant systems" that increase costs. And have you seen that bizarre ad?
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Mr. Parfet was the last member of the Upjohn family to lead its namesake pharmaceutical company. He was chairman and chief executive from 1969 until 1987.
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By James Thorner, St. Petersburg Times, Fla.  Sep. 4--Technology companies used to enjoy rich, long lives: Consider  graybeards like IBM and General Electric.   No longer.   Peter Marcotullio, an SRI International executive visiting St.
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accident nine years ago made him a worldwide advocate for embryonic stem cell research and gave him a hate-love relationship with the Christian community, died Sunday of heart failure, his family and publicist announced Monday, October 11.
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Although a number of companies are working to develop higher-powered batteries for laptops and high-tech gadgets, real breakthroughs in the technology could be a decade away.
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Ancel Keys, a pioneer in public health best known for identifying the connection between a cholesterol-rich diet and heart disease, has died.
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SAN FRANCISCO Computer scientist Bob Evans, who helped popularize personal computing, has died. He was 77. His son Doug said Evans died Thursday of heart failure at his home in the San Francisco of Hillsborough.
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James LeVoy Sorenson, the 86-year-old founder of Sorenson Squeeze digital video compression and encoding technology, dies of cancer.
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Big batteries will fight blackouts and could make renewable power economically viable.
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In a research breakthrough that has broken records in the semiconductor industry, scientists at Infineon Technologies AG have built the worldâs smallest non-volatile flash memory cell.
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Lewis Urry, the man who put the power in the Energizer Bunny&#39;s long-lasting alkaline battery, died in Middleburg Heights, Ohio, after a short illness.
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Dr. Arthur Kornberg, who won the 1959 Nobel Prize for figuring out how DNA is built, died on Friday of respiratory failure at the age of 89, Stanford University Hospital in California said.
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J. Irwin Miller, 95, the industrialist and philanthropist who guided Cummins Engine Co. to international prominence and helped shape his home town of Columbus, Ind., into an architectural gem, died Aug. 16 at his home in Columbus. No cause of death was ...
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BBC South Koreans are hard-core techies and use some of the fastest broadband and mobile networks in the world. A recent survey of 3,500 Korean tech experts gives a peek at their view of the future. By 2012 they foresee mobile phone batteries that last for two months before recharging. By 2015 they think the Web will deliver smells via ...
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Ancel Keys, the University of Minnesota scientist who invented the K ration diet used by soldiers in World War II and who linked high cholesterol and fatty diets to heart disease, has died at the age of 100.