Consumers and businesses, voters and politicians, and readers and writers today are caught up in the social media wave. There is no escaping the magnetic pull the Web, and sites like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter have over our ...READ»
You know what the Dutch love almost as much as design? Design awards. Yesterday, they announced the latest: The 2009 Great Indoors awards, which selected five winners, from among over 380 entries worldwide. And the winners are...READ»
Offerpal's just announced a new way for online shoppers to earn virtual currency to spend in online games and social networks. Dubbed, unsurprisingly, Offerpal Shopping, it's how you may well expect to do some of your future online ...READ»
Oh Facebook, when are you going to learn? When you've got over a third of a billion people using your site to basically fritter the day away, any tweaks are going to stir up your population. What are Facebookers saying about these new ...READ»
An Environmental Working Group study, released Tuesday evening, found traces of BPA in 90% of infants’ umbilical cord blood, the first US study to confirm the chemical’s presence in babies. BPA is thought to cause fertility and ...READ»
Tesla has done alot to disprove the notion that hybrid and electric vehicles are wimpier than their gasoline-powered counterparts, but Capstone Turbine may have the final word with its CMT-380 hybrid supercar. The vehicle, which is ...READ»
The latest--and perhaps most hazardous--roadblock on the Chevy Volt's journey to a car dealership near you might just be the unexpected resignation of General Motors CEO Fritz Henderson. Henderson has only been running the ...READ»
Drinking alone has never been so much fun.
After our recent report on the brew-sniffing augmented reality app from Stella, we started drinking thinking about the wider world of suds. Turns out there's a keg's worth of new ...READ»
We've covered the concept of kinetic energy before and have even seen it put to work at a Sainsbury grocery store, where vehicles in the parking lot power the checkout line. Now researchers at the University of Bristol in the U.K. ...READ»
Dear Dan,
My daughter turned 16 about six months ago, so naturally I am terrified of her getting in a wreck. To make matters worse, I rode with her recently and she started texting while she was driving! I gave her an earful but ...READ»
Facebook seems like a damn good mirror for reality, according to research by scientists--at least if you're talking about your real-life persona. Because your Facebook profile turns out to be excellent at capturing your true ...READ»
After a year of dithering, controversy and retro-thinking government meddling, the FCC has finally begun the process of enabling new whitespace broadband Wi-Fi devices. Good news. But if it makes you scratch your head, then let us ...READ»
Call it the Al Gore Effect or just an inconceivable truth, but the Pentagon, among other members of the Military Industrial Complex, actually are taking steps to reduce their carbon footprint. In fact, they are so concerned for the ...READ»
The eco-artist turns the things we throw away into stunning decorative objects--from chandeliers made of washed up trash, to coffee tables made of broken rear-view mirrors. READ»
Google's offering free Wi-fi access in cafes--but not in the U.S. The company is busy wooing customer affections in another country: Japan, where it's losing the search engine battle.
We're used to Google dominating pretty much ...READ»
I got all excited about Twitter's geotagging feature before, and now it's getting a new spin that wraps in another neat technology: Augmented reality. Enter Twitter 360, an AR iPhone App that puts Tweets in a global navigational ...READ»
