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Hawaii's Deep Blue Solution to A/C Woes

BY Ben Paynter21 minutes ago

The design is complex, the island logic simple: Find a cheaper way to cool tropical buildings and you can spend less on imported oil. All that money saved on overhead means--Aloha!--more clam shells for everyone to dump back into ...READ»

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Joule Biotechnologies Figures Out How to Make Fuel from Air

BY Ariel Schwartz51 minutes ago

It seems impossible, but biofuel startup Joule Biotechnologies claims that it has successfully produced fuel out of thin air--sort of. The company's mysterious engineered microbes require just sunlight and CO2 to squirt out ethanol, ...READ»

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Blackberry and Palm Apps Getting Better, but Not Fast Enough

BY Chris Dannen1 hour, 6 minutes ago

Even as Apple celebrates the release of its 100,000th app--and that cash machine it calls the app store--Palm and RIM are running fast to catch up, and woo developers to their platforms. Earlier this week, Palm introduced a Web-based ...READ»

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Twitter's New Retweet Feature Is Not the Apocalypse

BY Dan Macsai1 hour, 21 minutes ago

Hey, have you heard? Twitter is changing its Retweet feature, and everyone is complaining about it. Hubspot's Dan Zarella says the feature "could completely eviscerate most of the value out of Retweets." PC Mag's Lance Ulanoff calls ...READ»

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Modern Warfare 2's Airport Slaughter Breaks Unspoken Rule of Game Gore: Just Have Fun

BY Cliff Kuang1 hour, 51 minutes ago

Critics are furious over the violence of "Modern Warfare 2"--and one scene is causing all the problems.READ»

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More Details of Mozilla's Wave-like Raindrop Leak

BY Addy DugdaleWed Nov 11, 2009 at 10:30 AM

Raindrop, Firefox creator Mozilla's version of Google Wave, has revealed a little more of her comely form. Images of the open-source messaging platform are there for everyone to see on Mozilla employee Andy Chung's Flickr page. As ...READ»

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Phaidon's 100-Year, 1000-Product Survey of Design

BY Cliff KuangWed Nov 11, 2009 at 10:00 AM

Phaidon's most recent design compendium landed in bookstores with a thud: Spread over three volumes, it's a compendium of 1000 design classics, under three themes: Pioneers, Mass Production, and New Technologies. Here is a preview of what's between the covers.READ»

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Video-Conferencing Wars: Now Logitech Enters the Fray

BY Addy DugdaleWed Nov 11, 2009 at 9:30 AM

As video-conferencing becomes more and more popular (face it, business travel is just so last century) more and more companies are getting in on the act. Latest to join the battlefield is computer peripherals company Logitech, who has ...READ»

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Would Jim Carrey Rather Be Starring in Tim Burton's "Alice In Wonderland"?

BY Alissa WalkerWed Nov 11, 2009 at 9:00 AM

His kid-friendly Disney movie opened over the weekend but his new website is a visually-stunning walk on the dark side. According to its designers it's a pretty accurate peek inside the comedic genius's brain.READ»

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It's a Boat! It's a Plane! It's BMW Oracle's Wing Sail!

BY Alissa WalkerWed Nov 11, 2009 at 8:30 AM

A massive 7,700 pound wing sail affixed to a racing trimaran may be the United States' best shot at winning the Americas Cup.READ»

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8 Gadgets to Make Your Business Trip More Fun

BY Paul HochmanWed Nov 11, 2009 at 8:00 AM

These tech toys will help maximize the down time during your trip to the next big business conference.READ»

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What Will Solar Sail-Powered Spaceships Tell Us About Space?

BY Ariel SchwartzWed Nov 11, 2009 at 7:30 AM

The world's first solar-sail-powered spacecraft, Cosmos 1, met its demise in 2005 when it fell into the ocean before ever reaching orbit. But dreams of solar sails propelling spaceships haven't died, and Carl Sagan's Planetary ...READ»

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Freedom Leg Makes Crutches a Thing of the Past

BY Ariel SchwartzTue Nov 10, 2009 at 7:00 PM

After the pain, the worst part of breaking a leg or ankle is the helplessness of having to hobble around on crutches. But what if you could trade in crutches for your very own prosthetic leg--without cutting off a real one? That's ...READ»

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What's Wrong With the Analysis of "What's Wrong With Charitable Giving-and How to Fix It"

BY Brian ReichTue Nov 10, 2009 at 6:30 PM

Pablo Eisenberg, a Senior fellow in the Center for Public and Nonprofit Leadership at Georgetown Public Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., penned a terrific op-ed in The Wall Street Journal Tuesday entitled "What's Wrong With ...READ»

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Apple Leapfrogs Nokia as World's #1 Handset Maker

BY Chris DannenTue Nov 10, 2009 at 6:00 PM

Apple's iPhone division cleared $1.6 billion in operating profits in Q3 of 2009, leap-frogging Nokia as the world's premier mobile money-maker, according to Strategy Analytics and GigaOm. (Chart below courtesy of GigaOm.) That's an ...READ»