Here's what happens to your recyclables

Check out a photo gallery from Davis street transfer station, on the journey from trash bin to recovery.

Recyclables take a world tour

What happens to your plastic bottles or old TV once you get rid of them? There's a good chance they end on the other side of the globe.

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The minicomputer lives on in Massachusetts

Twenty years ago, the minicomputer cluster along Route 128, the beltway round Boston, rivaled Silicon Valley as symbol of entrepreneurship, innovation and cutting-edge computer technology. Today most firms like DEC, Prime, Apollo, Wang and data General has disappeared. But the heritage from the minicomputer era still makes its mark on the local economy and some of the product lines continue to sell for billions of dollars.

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Ericsson shares fall on lukewarm outlook

World's largest telecom equipment maker beats earnings estimates, but investors flee on expectations of a sales slowdown.
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SolarCity provides sun power for San Franciscans below grid price

With new city solar incentives, households in San Francisco can get solar power for less than the cost of electricity from the grid, leasing panels from installation start-up Solarcity.

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Improving solar efficiency by coating cells

Australian start-up claims it can improve solar cell power output by 3
percent to 4 percent through its glass-coating technology.

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