| Washington rules: Employers can fire you if you smoke medical marijuana Last Thursday, the Washington Supreme Court ruled that if you were a medical marijuana user, your employer could fire you for your medical marijuana use, even if you were prescribed to use the drug for medical purposes. Read the full story Student invention may make road safer for bicyclists A clever warning device has the potential to prevent a majority of bicycle-related collisions. Read the full story What we're reading: lie-detecting ATMs What we're reading: lie-detecting ATMs; New York: design capital?; Bill Gates and the developing world; CEO psychopaths; American job creation. Read the full story Better data analytics needed to help control government spending: survey Federal managers say business analytics may help them tighten up their operations by better identifying waste and inefficiencies. But most do not have the tools or management support to undertake more analytics-based approaches. Read the full story Desktop DNA machine uncovers details about the deadly E. coli strain Normally, it takes weeks to sequence pathogens of unknown origin. But scientists are using Ion Torrent's DNA machine to test E. coli in just two hours. Read the full story China wants to build high-speed rail beyond its own borders China wants to build a rail network that would connect the country to Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, and Myanmar. Read the full story An urban revival: skyscrapers, or historic preservation? Should cities revive themselves through high-rise skyscrapers or historic preservation of housing stock? Architecture critic Inga Saffron writes that it's complicated. Read the full story Google teams up with SolarCity, invests $280 million in residential solar Google on Tuesday said that it will create a $280 million fund to help SolarCity, a residential solar project financing company, to ramp up deployments. Read the full story SpaceX wins Thailand contract SpaceX said that it has won a contract to launch telecom satellites for Thaicom Plc., a Thailand-based communications company. Read the full story Honeywell: The Lindbergh of Aviation Biofuels Plant-based jet fuel maker has scheduled the first non-stop trans-Atlantic biofuel flight, leaving this Friday from New Jersey to Paris. Read the full story When biodegradable products are eco-unfriendly In some cases, the landfill disposal of biodegradable materials might be causing more harm than good. Read the full story Another cure for whisky's carbon hangover Looking for a greener way to take the edge off? The Scots are, too. A Scotch distillery on the Isle of Islay takes a shot at cutting whisky's carbon footprint. Read the full story DARPA: 6 futuristic projects for emergency medical care Research into technologies that can quickly treat wounded soldiers, such as a tricorder and blood pharming, could one day become breakthroughs in civilian emergency care. Read the full story 'Big Data' analytics top concern even for smaller organizations: survey New IBM study of more than 3,000 CIOs finds midsize IT leaders are concentrating their efforts on making the most out of Big Data. Read the full story Two iPhones to travel into space Just imagine the conversation at NASA. Commander: 'We need this data from the International Space Station!' Engineer: 'Sir, there's an app for that.' Read the full story What did climate have to do with the human plague? Chinese researchers found that the infectious disease, which killed about 200 million people during three historic pandemics, was linked to variations in rainfall (and rats with fleas, of course). Read the full story | 
