Last month, the most exciting news was from UCLA, where a small team of researchers developed a micro-scale graphene-based supercapacitor that can charge and discharge a hundred to a thousand times faster than current batteries.

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Pearson, who has his own background in startups, having worked at five Bay Area businesses before joining the team (including Posterous, a micro-blogging platform acquired by Twitter in 2012), says he can attest to the efficacy of freelance hiring from personal experience in addition to his role with the company.

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The team started with a commercially available "micro-lens array" - a grid of tiny lenses just 50 millionths of a metre across.

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Using its Community Impact Platform to create a fundraising challenge for two local animal rescues, Causecast leveraged social media, real-time reporting, peer recognition, instant donation processing, automatic tracking, micro and macro funding abilities, and good old competition with incentives to fire up the team and get them engaged in giving back.

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The skill is allegedly triggering on team controlled creeps as well, so a Chen with a stable of forest friends and a little micro can become veritable stun cannon.

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