Mark Halper

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Mark Halper has written for TIME, Fortune, Financial Times, the UK's Independent on Sunday, Forbes, New York Times, Wired, Variety and The Guardian. He is based in Bristol, U.K. http://twitter.com/markhalper Follow him on Twitter.

Mark does not have financial holdings that would influence how or what he covers. He writes for SmartPlanet and is not an employee of CBS.

Latest from Mark Halper

A small nuclear reactor with a difference

"Modular" reactors could be the future of clean energy. But as General Atomics knows, it will take more than just shrinking conventional designs.

April 8, 2014 by Mark Halper in Innovation

Warning: Info tech could wipe out all humans

Artificial intelligence, nano tech, biotech. It might all run horribly amok. You'd be surprised at who says so.

April 8, 2014 by Mark Halper in Innovation

Screens wreck our sleep

Blue light before bed. Morning brings slow head.

April 7, 2014 by Mark Halper in Innovation

Hilly cities eye bike escalators

It works a bit like one of those ski lifts that pushes you up the slope while you're standing. Norway has one. San Francisco and Pittsburgh are looking into it.

April 4, 2014 by Mark Halper in Innovation

Colorado town bans shooting down drones

Only in America would this idea even come up for a vote.

April 2, 2014 by Mark Halper in Innovation

Iceland's clean energy lures metal companies from abroad

The country's long running effort to entice industry to come and use its 100 percent "renewable" electricity is picking up steam.

April 1, 2014 by Mark Halper in Innovation

This drone steals your data

The dreaded inevitable has happened.

March 31, 2014 by Mark Halper in Innovation

Could Ukraine crisis spur new forms of nuclear energy?

Want independence from Russian gas? Then ramp up development of novel reactors that are safer, cheaper and more useful than today's.

March 28, 2014 by Mark Halper in Innovation

Iconoclasm of the day: Is lean manufacturing long in the tooth?

It's a religion. But why such reverence when demigod Toyota keeps making faulty cars?

March 25, 2014 by Mark Halper in Innovation

Electric cars: Range plunges in heat and cold

Just as you were getting over your anxiety about getting stranded, the American Automobile Association has some extreme news.

March 24, 2014 by Mark Halper in Innovation

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