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  • Hurricane Irene is expected to hit with full force tomorrow morning and possibly be enormously destructive. CNET points out that 96% of Americans…

  • Aug 25, 2011

    Power Buoys

    The Navy has begun testing on buoys that harness electricity from waves. In the past, wave-generated electricity was seen as too expensive and not…

  • Aug 25, 2011

    Power Walker!

    Researchers at the University of Wisconsin released a study showing how to power our Smartphones from the kinetic energy in our shoes. That means…

  • Apparently one of Facebook's summer plans was to acquire the uber-popular photo sharing site, Instagram. What's appealing to people about Instagram…

  • What if you were watching, say Anderson Cooper reporting on the military, and he happened to show, I don't know, a high-ranking official teaching…

  • If you have at all been on Twitter, blogs, or any other media outlets, you know that Steve Jobs has resigned as CEO of Apple yesterday afternoon….

  • The National Film Board of Canada has commissioned director Vincent Morisset to make a "film for computer."…

  • The FAA recently approved the use of iPads in the cockpit for pilot navigation. United says it will issue every pilot the device. …

  • Boy, late summer is just product death season. We told you, and really not long ago, about the HTC Status, a smart phone with a built in Facebook…

  • It was supposed to be the Foursquare killer but I guess it never really took off. Facebook Places is no more. The idea was to let users "check in"…