Glitches with a new finger-printing system meant that voting continued into Saturday in some parts of the country.

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It said it had now found irregularities such as cases of over voting and instances when people not registered by the new biometric finger-printing system were able to vote.

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But the week's most exciting solar story is The Solar Pocket Factory, a DIY backyard photovoltaic panel printing system that can print a solar panel in 15 seconds flat.

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The soles are built using an additive manufacturing (also known as 3-D printing) system invented and patented at the university.

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Not even the two-party opposition Alliance, critical as it is of unemployment, still around 13%, dares to suggest printing money (the currency-board system forbids it) as a cure.

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In the other corner, global central banks are forcefully trying to counter these deflationary pressures by providing excess liquidity into the banking system via numerous forms of money printing.

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If borrowing rates can be insulated from spending and printing money, there is essentially no stopping Krugmanomics in the current system.

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Even if the state redeems the mistaken gambles of the past, keeps depositors' confidence alive, and does so without printing huge amounts of money, the future of the Russian banking system remains bleak.

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And then VJ paints a picture of a whole back-end, cloud-based system that supports his vision of the coming role imaging and printing will play.

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If money printing is no longer a net positive for markets, who will keep the system afloat?

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In another demonstration, a printer that was printing a tax document with social security numbers scanned the document and sent it to another system.

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Moreover, printing yen to buy dollars is one way to inject liquidity into Japan's moribund financial system.

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Imaging and printing are not the only on and off ramps, but they represent points at which information enters and leaves the system.

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