Global warming is opening up the Arctic Circle, and Russia would like to control its bounty of natural resources. An exclusive dispatch from the Yamal Peninsula, where reindeer give way to railroads and gas rigs every day.READ»
While the global market for ever more sophisticated tech gadgets grows, the metals and minerals that make them go are controlled by a handful of countries.READ»
Solving climate change is a big challenge that will require cooperation and innovation on a global scale. Tokyo startup Fullcircle Innovations is taking on this challenge with its offerings at GreenITers.com and EcoAppsFree.com.READ»
Shopping: The Real American Revolution
If you were a typical American living in the early part of the nineteenth
century, you had to plant, tend, harvest, slaughter, and process your own
food. You had to make your own ...READ»
The youngest ever member of the Policy Planning staff showed the State Department how to use technology for diplomacy. Now Cohen's going to see if some of the thorniest foreign policy issues can be tackled from the private sector.READ»
Feeling cooped up in that dingy old cube? Life seem a little meaningless? No worries. The State Department will be happy to send you to the far reaches of the planet to end violence, empower citizens, and bring peace and prosperity to the rest of the world.READ»
Charity: water gives 100% of money raised to fresh water projects around the world and teaches sustainability to the communities in need. Viktoria Harrison worked with clients including Coke and American Express before taking over design and branding for charity: water.READ»
Yahoo's advertising war with Google and AOL has stepped up a notch with the purchase of Israeli-American firm Dapper for a reported $55 million. The move suggests that Sunnyvale is looking to hit Google where it hurts: Right in the customized ad pocketbook.READ»
Graphene may be the material that transforms the electronics game into something amazingly new for the 21st century--the Nobel Prize committee seems to agree, and has awarded the 2010 Physics prize to two graphene scientists. READ»
Two Russian companies have announced plans for a commercial space station to launch in 2015 -- and they already have competition from an American company.READ»
Vladimir Putin's government has been hitting protesters with phony software piracy charges -- and Microsoft's legal team lent a hand. Here's the software giant's side of the story.READ»
Modern fertility technology has made parenthood a possibility for thousands more people, but it has also created a lucrative -- and ethically questionable -- global trade in human genetic material.READ»
While you were sleeping, innovation was going retrofuturistic with posters like this--and these.1. Dave Petrou, an engineer on the Google Goggles mobile image search project, revealed that a Goggles app for iPhone is in the works. He ...READ»
When did Silicon Valley become so obsessed with building cities? Last month it was Cisco’s SVP of strategy Inder Sidhu describing the company’s smart city play as the $36 billion company’s “biggest opportunity.” Then, at the ...READ»
Nurse, the screens, please. Android's got itself a nasty little virus--its first. It goes by the name of Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer-A, says Kaspersky Lab, the firm that detected it, and it takes the form of a media player. A ...READ»
Some people (Sepp Blatter, raise your hand) are not particularly enamored of the idea of soccer embracing technology, but one country is focusing on this for its bid for the 2022 World Cup. Japan, which hosted the tournament alongside ...READ»
