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It's easy to declare Germany's ambitious policy of moving to clean energy from fossil fuels, while at the same time abandoning nuclear power, a failure.
Bloomberg
Consumer Reports says an emerging technology called OLED is really going to shake up the television industry.
ABC News
United States pay-TV giant DirecTV is actively looking into supporting Ultra-HD content in 2014, Michael White, chairman, president and CEO told investors at Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference.
Satellite Today
The future of television will be 4K, or Ultra High Definition (UHD) if you prefer that term. It will undoubtedly have larger displays. It may well be curved. And, perhaps, it will be based on OLED technology, instead of the LCDs that represent almost the entire market today.
PC Magazine
Business Insider
Sun-splashed, wind-swept Jamaica positioned itself Thursday to nearly double the amount of electricity it generates from renewable sources.
Business Week
India will get $100-billion investment in renewable energy in the next five years and become a world leader in the sector.
Economic Times
New York Times
According to recent report from Citi Research, renewables will continue their market share grabs from coal and gas for two reasons.
Business Insider
Germany has launched what it claims is Europe's first and largest commercial battery plant, which will help to store renewable power sources.
RT
With televisions being made smarter and more sophisticated, electronics companies are finding ways to set their products apart, as shown at this year's IFA.
Korea Times (via Advanced Imaging Pro)
Back in February, NVIDIA trotted out the very first desktop GPUs to feature its new Maxwell architecture: the GeForce GTX 750 and 750i.
engadget
A banner reading "OLED: The future of TV" hung beneath a stunning display of seven 77-inch curved TVs on LG's stand at last week's IFA 2014 exhibition in Berlin.
Techradar
LG Display expects its next-generation TV technology to turn a profit in 2015 as production costs fall and talks to supply Sony, Panasonic and Chinese set makers continue.
Bloomberg
LG Chemical, part of the LG Group and South Korea's largest chemical company, has developed a super-efficient OLED light panel capable of matching the performance of traditional LED offerings currently on the market.
CNET
Both sides in the Scottish referendum debate are making their final pitch to voters on the last day of campaigning. The latest polls suggested the result remained too close to call.
BBC News
Panasonic has unveiled a hybrid smartphone-camera at the Photokina trade show in Cologne.
BBC News
15 Sep 201412 Sep 2014
One day this summer a tugboat called Thor Goliath left Norway and made its way to the blustery west coast of Scotland. It was towing a pair of black plastic pipes, each as thick as a tree trunk and 620m long - the length of more than a dozen Olympic swimming pools laid end to end.
Finacial Times
For the past year, manufacturers have heralded OLED UHD TVs as a harbinger of sea change in the home entertainment industry, affording thinner and even flexible panels with higher quality pictures than today's LCD sets.
Computerworld
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