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Soros Invests $1 Billion in Clean Energy as New Study Fuels Global Warming Skepticism

George Soros is going to put a billion dollars of his business fortune into clean energy. But will the cash go to change the political attitude toward global warming or is it offset by recent figures that seem to suggest evidence of ...READ»

Will BBC Launch Paid VOD Globally?

Attention Doctor Who fans: The venerable British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is rumored to be launching a global version of its Internet iPlayer video-on-demand solution. The iPlayer lets British viewers catch up on BBC shows ...READ»

Infographic of the Day: Ballooning Population Maps

Geography seen through the filter of population density. READ»

Iranian Protests Becoming Crowd-Sourced Cyber War

Protesting Iranians were already using new technology like Twitter to coordinate their efforts, as we noted on Monday. Now those protests are taking a new direction--with simple crowd-sourced denial of service (DDos) attacks being ...READ»

Hulu Streaming to U.K. in September? Not Until ITV and Channel 4 Are Satisfied

American TV aficionados living in the U.K. will get a fabulous gift in September, when web-TV streaming company Hulu opens its service there, according to new rumors. But as well as endless Stargate and Family Guy, they'll also get ...READ»

Seven Entertaining Things Online This Week

While kids in Harlem free their minds, kids in Britain are getting prosecuted for politically incorrect jokes. If that makes you lose all hope for the world, well, there's always the prospect of a long, isolated trip to the moon. On second thought, just go surfing, dream of 3G MacBooks, and kick back to some of the Internet's finest viral cat videos.READ»

Microsoft Shutters Encarta as Douglas Adam's Encyclopedia Model Wins

Microsoft has announced that it's terminating its encyclopedia effort Encarta after 16 years in the business of collecting and publishing knowledge and historic information. The reasons for Encarta's doom are obvious: it's become ...READ»

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April Fools' Day: How Pranking Your Customers Can Buoy Your Brand [update]

UPDATE: If you're as April Fools'-obsessed as we are, you've probably spent the entire day trolling the Internet for pranks. And because so many big-name brands stepped up, we all had a lot to enjoy. (See our ...READ»

Fast Food Ads = Fat Children?

A new study by the National Bureau of Economic Research reveals that a ban on fast food advertising during children's programming would reduce obesity rates in America's youth by 14-18%.READ»

World Food Day: Mercycorps Unveils Action Center to End World Hunger

Right now, more people are hungry than the populations of the US, Canada and the EU combined. In an attempt to combat world hunger, MercyCorps has opened the Action Center to End World Hunger in downtown Manhattan.READ»

Japan's Quirky Vending Machines

Put some change in, thrust your face out and prepare for… a quick nicotine fix and an estimate of your wrinkles. The Japanese have always had the world's quirkiest vending machines – actually I'd go so far as to say the ...READ»