Decision from world’s leading search engine comes amid a clampdown on the internet in China over the last year Google challenge to China over censorship by Tania Branigan in Beijing | The Guardian | Wednesday 13 January 2010 Google, the world’s leading search engine, has thrown down the gauntlet to China by saying it is no longer willing to censor [...]
By Wired Science | December 31, 2009 With so many incredible scientific advances and discoveries this year, Wired Science had a tough time choosing which 10 were the biggest. So, we went with the ones that stood out for us. From the amazing collective power of jellyfish, to a new human ancestor, to a cancer-detecting [...]
‘Community solar park’: State hopes Ellensburg idea takes off LEAH BETH WARD | YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC | December 13, 2009 ELLENSBURG – Gary Nystedt was brainstorming with a group of colleagues at a solar energy conference a few years ago when the idea hit him. What if Ellensburg put up solar panels in a park and [...]
At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data — including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper “laptop.” In an onstage Q&A, Mistry says he’ll open-source the software behind SixthSense, to open its possibilities to all.
GIZMODO | By Wilson Rothman | December 7, 2009 A Two-Horse Race Do this now: Disregard all other ebook readers on the market besides Nook and Kindle. Unless you plan to get all of your books from back-alley torrents, or stick to self-published and out-of-copyright PDFs, you are going to need a reader with a good content-delivery [...]
Twitter couldn’t. Google couldn’t … By Farhad ManjooPosted Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009, at 5:20 PM ET Nearly a year ago—in the course of cajoling people into joining the ubiquitous social network—I marveled at Facebook’s astonishing growth rate: The site had just signed up its 150 millionth member, and about 370,000 people were joining every day. [...]
By Wendy Koch, USA TODAY, December 4, 2009 The home building industry is struggling, but one sector is booming: green homes. The number of homes winning the government’s Energy Star designation since the program began in 1995 has crossed the 1 million mark. Despite an overall housing slump, 75,000 have been added so far this [...]
Written by Joshua Johnson, On 28th November 2009. Filed in Inspiration, Layouts. Once upon a time, designers would lug unwieldy physical portfolios from interview to interview to showcase their work. This tactic is steadily being replaced with sending out emails containing links to an online portfolio. A portfolio website is becoming an essential marketing tool [...]
Long-term use of mobile phones ‘may be linked to cancer’
“No longer do you build discrete components and initiatives – a website, a product, advertising messages/campaigns – you now need to build a dynamic socially networked ecosystem of give and take, your web as the plasma-like glue that holds it together, delivering content and experience with many tentacles that, if you emotionally resonate with wants [...]