Innovation
What we're reading: green building challenge
20 million OLPCs; Toronto's smarter airport; brain-inspired computer; Saudi Arabia meets GE; EPA 'Biggest Loser.'
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1.) One Laptop Per Child says it will provide laptops to 20 million African students by 2015.
2.) Toronto's Pearson airport enlists IBM to make operations at kiosks, check-in counters and gates more efficient.
3.) A molecule-sized Michigan Tech computer mimics the human brain.
4.) General Electric partners with Saudi Arabia to bolster the nation's energy, healthcare, transportation and water sectors.
5.) A new EPA challenge pits 14 buildings against each other to see which one can use the least amount of energy.
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