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Barcelona Hosts World Architecture Festival

While the economic crunch has frozen cranes at project lots around the world, it hasn't stalled creativity. Witness the 704 entries submitted to the World Architecture Festival's fourth annual competition.READ MORE

World Textile Summit

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Recipient of First Ever Full Face Transplant Appears in Public for the First Time

A 31-year-old Spaniard who was given the world's first full face transplant four months ago, has this morning appeared at a press conference alongside the doctors who performed the procedure, at Barcelona's Vall d'Hebron University ...READ MORE

Fear Not These Murals: Brian Rea's Art Is What Keeps Him Up at Night

The illustrator faced his fears by painting them onto two long walls at the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona.READ MORE

Windows Mobile 7 to Be Unveiled to the World, Except Holidaying Americans

It looks like Microsoft is all set to finally reveal Windows Mobile 7, long-awaited cure to the ills of all the earlier WinMo OSes. The action's due to happen at Mobile World Congress on Monday. When no one in the U.S. will care. ...READ MORE

Sign of the Times: Abandoned Phone Booths Transformed Into EV Charging Stations

As cell phones become ever more ubiquitous, phone booths become increasingly irrelevant. But what to do with the thousands of virtually abandoned phone booths scattered in cities around the world? Madrid's solution is to turn these ...READ MORE

Bus Stops of the Future: Are They Realistic?

Bus stations are generally information-poor, displaying little more than the time of the next bus arrival. But MIT's SENSEable City Lab envisions a richer bus station experience that could, according to MIT's Carlo Ratti, ...READ MORE

AMD Readies "Shanghai" Chip

AMD [AMD] has been having a mediocre year. Okay, an awful year. First, their quad-core chip, the Barcelona, couldn't find a market because of its reputation as buggy. Then the company announced a second quarter loss of over $1.2 ...READ MORE

12 Cities to Watch

Peer through the shroud of smog, and you'll see Beijing all dressed up for the Olympics, with daring new buildings like Rem Koolhaas's CCTV HQ. China's economy is booming, and the arts scene is too. The newest draw in the hip 798 ...READ MORE