Tech news 5/16

 The push to plug the plumbing problem from hell at Fukushima Daiichi is about to get some help from a U.S.-built robot designed to search for leaks from one of the Japanese nuclear plant's crippled reactors. Built in Colorado by California-based nuclear cleanup contractor kurion the refrigerator-sized robot will stick a 15- foot mechanical arm through a hole in the main floor of the reactor building. 

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China's smartphone trailblazer looks abroad. in 2010, lei jun launched Xiaomi, a mobilephone company that aimed to go head to head in china with apple, samsung, lenovo, and other deep-pocketed purveyors of high-end phones. Xiaomi has not just held its own against the big guys.