With New CEO at Design Within Reach, Is Redemption Within Reach?

Design Within Reach, the modern furniture retailer that developed a nasty habit of knocking off famous designs, has taken one more step toward reviving its ailing business and repositioning itself as a trustworthy brand with ...READ»

YouTube Becoming a Social Net, Google Becoming Humble?

Google's continuing to refine the way YouTube works, and the latest move echoes something I hinted at yesterday: YouTube is becoming a social net. It now has a tie-up with Facebook so you can see what vids your friends are ...READ»

Third Magazine Publisher Introduces Hand-Wavy Tablet PC Format

This is one very unexpected trend: Yet another magazine publisher has demonstrated how it thinks its future might look as a digital edition on a tablet PC. This time it's Swedish publisher Bonnier, and their video is clever. But wrong.READ»

The Gene Bubble: Curing Cancer, One Misleading Article at a Time

Great news for the cancerphobic, by which I mean everyone: Scientists have cracked the cancer genome! Or at least they've done it for lung and skin cancer, two of the scariest varieties. This is an enormous breakthrough for cancer ...READ»

NASA's AIRS Returns From Space With Valuable CO2 Measurements

It will be hard to make good on the climate negotiations currently being worked out in Copenhagen without readily-accessible information on carbon emissions. One day, the Planetary Skin Institute may provide all the info we need, ...READ»

iPhone Gaming Grows Up With EA's Big Franchise Games

It's been suspected, and Apple itself hasn't missed the marketing opportunity, but it looks like the iPhone and iPod Touch are turning into serious gaming systems. The latest confirmation of this? EA's releasing a bunch of ...READ»

Hard-Up Miami Herald Virtually Begs for Charity Micropayments

Ruh-roh...this sounds like a very sour note at the end of a year that's seen many traditional newspapers and magazines hit trouble: The Miami Herald is so strapped for cash it's soliciting charitable Web donations on a per-story ...READ»

The Simpsons, by the Numbers

¡Ay, caramba! With new episodes airing at least through 2011, The Simpsons, which turns 20 on December 17, has been on the small screen longer than any other comedy or drama in prime-time television history. Below, a look at the dough -- or is it d'oh? -- behind Matt Groening's brainchild.READ»

• Now December/January 2010
• Freeze: The Antarctic Treaty Turns 50

CityCenter's Architect "Dream Team" Builds the Next Vegas

The architects behind Las Vegas' CityCenter gathered after today's press conference to answer some questions about the legendary project.READ»

• Silver, Ice, and Bouncy Superheroes: Las Vegas' CityCenter by the Numbers

Good Work! FBI Cracks Down on One of Last Spring's 'Wolverine' Uploaders

Uh oh. The Whenever-We-Feel-Like-It Internet Police are back on the job. The FBI arrested 47-year-old Bronx resident Gilberto Sanchez earlier this morning and accused him of copyright infringement for allegedly uploading a copy of ...READ»

How Do You Feed 5,000 People for Free?

How do you feed 5,000 people in the center of London for free? It doesn't take a miracle. Just use all the perfectly decent food that wholesalers, specialty shops, and grocery stores throw away every day. The Feeding the 5,000 ...READ»

Twitter's and YouTube's Trends of 2009 Couldn't Differ More

Slightly prematurely, both YouTube and Twitter have released the list of top trends on the two services in 2009. The lists overlap in one or two places, but in general they're as different from each other as chalk and ...READ»

Is Monsanto About to Step Into an Antitrust Suit?

Monsanto's monopoly over world agriculture is no secret--just take a quick look around Amazon to see some of the books (Omnivore's Dilemma) and movies (Food Inc., The World According to Monsanto) that have popped up to decry ...READ»

Roy E. Disney, 1930-2009

A look at the organization that his uncle built, and which Roy fought for in his waning years.READ»

Study Attempts to Deflate Overblown Wind Turbine Syndrome Claims

So-called Wind Turbine Syndrome--a series of health problems caused by the low-frequency sound of wind turbines--is probably just psychological, according to a study from the American Wind Energy Association. And that means past ...READ»

Five Designers Get $50k in Mini-MacArthur Grants for Artists

A look at what makes them special.READ»

Homeslice: 584k Building Permits Issued in November, Best Month in a Year

Good news on the ground-breaking front: more new homes were begun in November than at any point over the previous 12 months. New housing projects were up 8.9% last month, with fresh building permits nationally hitting 584, 000, the ...READ»

'Square' iPhone Credit-Card Reader Facing Patent Trouble

Twitter creator Jack Dorsey's much-vaunted Square device, the iPhone plug-in credit card reader, may have bigger problems than formidable competition. It seems someone other than Square owns the patent on the technology. In fact ...READ»