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Chicago-based Clean Urban Energy has raised $7 million in Series A funding, the company announced today.

The company has developed a software platform, and the monitoring and analytic services to go with it, that take advantage of a building's thermal mass and thermal-energy storage (TES) to make it run more efficiently and save on energy costs.

Clean Urban Energy says its software analytics platform can reduce the expense of a building's heating, ventilation, and air conditioning energy use by 15 percent to 30 percent.

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This week: We explain the legal thinking behind this week's Supreme Court case on video game sales, check out the latest rumors about a new MacBook Air, and watch Joe compare his new HTC Evo 3D to his original model.

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This week: David Carnoy sits in for Scott, and we discuss the New York Post's plan to block iPad traffic, the fate of NYC's Apple Cube store, and play another round of brain-draining tech trivia.

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This week: Scott and Dan are back from E3 with a detailed report on the best and worst from the big video game trade show. Meanwhile, Julie and Joe talk about how they came up with a plan to benchmark Samsung's new Chrome OS laptop, which is no small feat, as the OS is basically just Google's Chrome Web browser and nothing else.

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This week, we check out the latest lid-swapping laptop from Dell, a slick new Asus Windows tablet, and the long-awaited iCade arcade cabinet for the iPad.

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This week: We search for the elusive 11-inch version of Samsung's Series 9 laptop, which is allegedly in-stock at a single online retailer, check in on the still-ailing PlayStation Network, hear a bit about NYC's plan to become a leading "digital city." Then it's quiz time, as we stump the gang with some ThinkPad trivia.

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This week: We bemoan the unending PlayStation Network downtime, see who's winning the tablet vs. laptop fight, and debate business plans for digital magazine subscriptions. Guest @davidcarnoy joins in to win some prizes for the live chat room audience by answering e-book trivia questions.

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This week, we debate the ongoing PlayStation Network outage, guesstimate the arrival of new iMac desktops, and salute AMD for grabbing a solid share of the low-end laptop market.

If you're watching this episode a little later in the week than usual, note that we had a little problem with the magical render monkeys who typically lovingly encode each frame of our weekly videocast in a more timely fashion.

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This week, we look at the problems the Verizon iPad is having, find out why Anonymous has been hacking Sony sites, and check out the latest addition to our man cave project.

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