Stockholm, already a green city, is getting even greener with a new commitment to its Royal Seaport District under construction. Though plans for the district have been in the works for years in one form or another, a full political ...READ»
A Swedish prosecutor has today reopened the rape investigation on Wikileaks frontman Julian Assange. The enigmatic Australian had been accused of rape by a Swedish woman, who reported him to police, sparking a mammoth flurry of ...READ»
While you were sleeping, innovation was dancing the merengue.1. BlackBerry addicts have been given a 60-day reprieve by the Indian government. Today was to be the deadline for Research In Motion to hand over access to its users' data ...READ»
The oil spill is killing me. My suitcase is killing me. But mostly it's Robyn's interactive twideo that's killing Twitter users. The firm behind it is Blip Boutique, an L.A.-based collective led by James Frost--the guy behind ...READ»
In honor of our Fast Cities Breakfast coming up on June 22, we spoke with Portland mayor Sam Adams, who, in his first State of City address last February, vowed to make Portland "the most sustainable city in the world." And this ...READ»
People have long been aware that, during big TV moments--epic sports contests or the finale of Lost, for example--the Twittersphere rapidly fills up with TV-related hashtags. Last week Google Ventures invested in Miso, a social TV app ...READ»
Dr. Hans Rosling is a legendary TED presenter: He's appeared there a half-dozen times, using stats in ingenious ways to dispel common myths about the developing world. A professor at Karolinska
Institutet in Stockholm, he's got a ...READ»
Cisco signed a deal on Wednesday with Holyoke, Massachusetts to transform the onetime mill town into a "Smart+Connected Community" over the next six-to-twelve months. Cisco has moved aggressively into the smarter city business in ...READ»
When you want to learn to fly, game or simulator is the way to go. But for somebody with a simple interest in getting airborne the complexity of the search can be daunting. I remember spending hours going from one link to the next, ...READ»
Infographic: Let the Games Begin!
More than 80 nations and 5,500 athletes and officials will participate in this year's Winter Games.
NBC paid $820 million for the rights to broadcast Vancouver 2010, 34% more ...READ»
The world is bracing for an influx of billions of new urbanites in the coming decades, and tech companies are rushing to build new green cities to house them. Are these companies creating a smarter metropolis -- or just making money?READ»
One Sunday we returned to Denmark, as our boat anchored in Arhus, an attractive city university. Among the 300,000 inhabitants are 40,000 students. There was a lot of high schools on the pier to welcome you to the port in Aarhus Havn. ...READ»
Biofuel comes from some strange sources--watermelon, coffee grounds, and poop, to name a few. But when does the weirdness cross over into immorality? Perhaps when we start burning bunnies for biofuel.
As unbelievable as it may ...READ»
Can non-profits raise awareness, increase membership, and--most critically--“make the ask” successfully on Twitter? Can a 140-character message deliver the visceral wallop of, say, heart-wrenching footage of starving children ...READ»
Ten years ago the fashionable destination for design-minded travelers was the Guggenheim at Bilbao, where Frank Gehry's titanium acrobatics famously cast their spell. When design tourists pack their black clothing this month they will ...READ»
1. Mets Play Hardball
More than any other major-league baseball team, the New York Mets have tinkered with variable ticket prices that fluctuate in tandem with "platinum" game times (say, summer weekends) and ...READ»
The New York branch of the Ace Hotel just opened yesterday, and it's a great corrective to the bloated, blinged-out interiors we've come to expect from boutique hotels. Rooms begin at a very reasonable rate for New York--$199 ...READ»
