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Facebook adds support for hashtags

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Jun. 13 (News) - Facebook is adding support for clickable hashtags to help users keep track of popular topics on the network, a move experts say may boost ad sales.

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Government boost for offshore wind

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Jun. 12 (News Report) - As the government offers £2m in grants to offshore wind innovation schemes, it also sets up a body to attract inward investment to the industry.

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Sales of older iPhones, iPads banned as agency says Apple infringed Samsung patent

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Cecilia Kang - Jun. 05 (News Analysis) - A U.S. trade agency on Tuesday banned the sale of several iPhone and iPad models for infringing a Samsung patent, dealing a high-profile setback to Apple’s crusade against copycats. If upheld, the ruling would show that at least some of Apple’s iconic technology duplicated that of its primary competitor in the mobile-device market, an embarrassment for a company that has held itself up as the source of Silicon Valley’s most groundbreaking innovations.

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SAP in autism recruitment drive

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - May. 22 (News Report) - German software company SAP says it hopes to recruit hundreds of people with autism, saying they have a unique talent for information technology.

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Patent filing claims solar energy 'Breakthrough'

Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

McClatchy - By Greg Gordon - May. 10 (News Report) - WASHINGTON — In a U.S. patent application, a little-known Maryland inventor claims a stunning solar energy breakthrough that promises to end the planet’s reliance on fossil fuels at a fraction of the current cost – a transformation that also could blunt global warming.

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Future highways may glow in the dark

Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - By Leo Kelion, Colin Grant - May. 01 (News Report) - While carmakers have raced to add the latest technologies to their vehicles, the roads they drive on have arguably failed to evolve at the same pace. Now, an odd couple based in the Netherlands hope to change that with visions of self-illuminating weather warning signs painted on to the tarmac, and a dedicated lane capable of recharging electric cars on the go.

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UK to sell nuclear fuel firm stake

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Apr. 22 (News Report) - The UK government is preparing to sell its one-third stake in Urenco, the world's second-largest provider of nuclear fuel.

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No to Keystone. Yes to Crazy.

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN - Mar. 09 (Opinion) - If the oil pipeline is approved, President Obama will need to make it up to his green base.

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Full Green Ahead: Inside the Military's Clean-Energy Revolution

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Wired - By Climate Desk - Feb. 28 (News) - Full Green Ahead: Inside the Military's Clean-Energy Revolution

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How H-1B Visas Are Screwing Tech Workers

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Josh Harkinson - Feb. 22 (Special Report) - A few years ago, the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer informed hundreds of tech workers in its Connecticut R&D facilities that they'd soon be laid off. Before getting their final paychecks, however, they'd need to train their replacements: guest workers from India who'd come to the United States on H-1B visas. "It's a very, very stressful work environment," one soon-to-be-axed worker told Connecticut's The Day newspaper. "I haven't been able to sleep in weeks." Established in 1990, the federal H-1B visa program allows employers to import up to 65,000 foreign workers each year to fill jobs that require "highly specialized knowledge." The Senate's bipartisan Immigration Innovation Act of 2013, or "I-Squared Act," would increase that cap to as many as 300,000 foreign workers. "The smartest, hardest-working, most talented people on this planet, we should want them to come here," Sen. Marco Rubio, (R-Fla.) said upon introducing the bill last month. "I, for one, have no fear that this country is going ...

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Data mining is new K Street gold

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Byron Tau - Feb. 17 (News Report) - Data mining is new K Street gold

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App-rica

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

The Daily Beast - By Jake Bright - Jan. 29 (News Report) - During a 2011 mobile-finances presentation at a major American bank, I noticed one of the bankers, an African immigrant, chuckling. U.S. tech vendors described “cutting-edge” mobile applications “due out in a year or two” that would allow Americans to use phones for basic banking. “Cutting edge? Man, we’ve had that stuff in Africa for years now,” the African banker said to me.

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Textile futures: the living shoe and the strawberry plant that grows lace

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Oliver Wainwright - Jan. 23 (Special Report) - What will we be making shoes out of in 2080? And will our clothes come from fruit? One college course studies exactly that "We tend to work in the year 2050," says Carole Collet , who founded the Textile Futures course at Central Saint Martins 10 years ago. "But for some students, that's not enough – they prefer to speculate up to 2080 and beyond." Sitting in the cafe at the college's new King's Cross campus, it seems that all Collet and her colleague, course leader Caroline Till, are missing is a crystal ball. The work they and their students have been quietly pursuing for the last decade focuses on futuristic scenarios that many would find hard to comprehend – let alone relate to the conventional understanding of the word "textiles". Last year one student, Shamees Aden , investigated the emerging science of protocells , experimental chemical blobs that behave like living cell tissue. Aden used this new technology to develop a high-performance running trainer – which looks a little like ...

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Why Boeing's 787 Dreamliner was a nightmare waiting to happen

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Dominic Rushe - Jan. 18 (Opinion) - Aviation debacle is a result of battery and outsourcing problems exacerbated by a relaxation of government oversight There is a burnt-out metal box at the National Transportation Safety Board's offices in Washington that once housed what may well prove to be the most expensive battery in history. The charred metal box housed a lithium-ion battery that once powered the auxiliary power unit on a Japan Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner. That plane, one of 50 in service of the 850 sold so far, caught fire at Logan International Airport in Boston earlier this month. The same kind of battery is thought to have led to the grounding of a Nippon Airways flight this week . That plane was forced to make an emergency landing after a burning smell was detected in the plane's cabin. Boeing's battery woes are the latest in a series of problems to have beset the Dreamliner. Such problems have led to a global grounding of the aircraft , including all US-registered 787s, and a wide-ranging Federal Aviation ...

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Edible edifice: The offices of tomorrow

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Jan. 15 (News Report) - The office buildings of the future will be intelligent - and tasty too

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Transcript: First Obama-Romney Presidential Debate

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

All Things Considered - Oct. 04 (Speech) - Transcript of the first debate between President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney.

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Op-Ed Columnist: Has Apple Peaked?

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Joe Nocera - Sep. 22 (Opinion) - If Steve Jobs were still alive, would the new map application on the iPhone 5 be such an unmitigated disaster? Interesting question, isn’t it?

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Indian blackout held no fear for small hamlet where the power stayed on

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Helen Pidd - Sep. 10 (Special Report) - In rural Rajasthan, Gram Power's solar-powered microgrid kept the lights working and the buttermilk churning.

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Journalism: The best of times, and the worst of times

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

GigaOM - By Mathew Ingram - Jun. 03 (Interview) - Journalism professor Tim McGuire, a long-time newspaper editor and Pulitzer Prize judge, says there is much upheaval in the media industry but a lot of potential as well -- provided media entities give up their gatekeeper role and learn to serve their readers better.

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This I believe about journalism, newspapers and the future of media

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Arizona State University - By Tim McGuire - Jun. 01 (Opinion) - The idea that legacy media can find a silver bullet such as tablets, or pay walls, or reinvigoration of old advertising models is silly and reckless. The only silver bullet is dramatic reinvention.

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25 years of HyperCard—the missing link to the Web

Thu, 31 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Ars Technica - By Matthew Lasar - May. 31 (Opinion) - This month, I glanced at my historical watch. HyperCard will soon be 25, I noticed. What ever happened to it? I searched around and found venture entrepreneur and coder Tim Oren's 2004 eulogy for the program, written the week that Apple withdrew the software from the market. HyperCard's problem, he argued, was that Apple never quite figured out what the software was for. "What was this thing?" Oren wrote. "Programming and user interface design tool? Lightweight database and hypertext document management system? Multimedia authoring environment? Apple never answered that question."

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SpaceX: Space Station crew likes what it sees in new transport vehicle

Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Pete Spotts - May. 27 (News Report) - The crew of the International Space Station got its first look at the inside of its newest visitor – SpaceX's Dragon cargo ship – Saturday morning. For the next several years it'll be carrying cargo and astronauts to the space station.

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We need to reinvent the article

Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

seanblanda.com - By Sean Blanda - May. 27 (Opinion) - This post is outdated. Not the content, necessarily, but the way you are consuming it. Much of the discussion about reinventing media/journalism happens in a frustratingly small spectrum while instead we ought to be reconsidering everything. No really, everything. Perhaps the biggest reason traditional content creators are being usurped by seemingly unrelated and non-journalistic web services is because the foundation of journalism is broken. In other words: we need to reinvent the article.

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Do You Want the Good News First?

Sat, 19 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Thomas L. Friedman - May. 19 (Opinion) - I’ve spent the last week traveling to two of America’s greatest innovation hubs — Silicon Valley and Seattle — and the trip left me feeling a combination of exhilaration and dread. The excitement comes from not only seeing the stunning amount of innovation emerging from the ground up, but from seeing the new tools coming on stream that are, as Amazon.com’s founder, Jeff Bezos, put it to me, “eliminating all the gatekeepers” — making it easier and cheaper than ever to publish your own book, start your own company and chase your own dream. Never have individuals been more empowered, and we’re still just at the start of this trend.

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How the five web literacies are becoming essential survival skills

Sun, 13 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Nieman Journalism Lab - By Justin Ellis - May. 13 (News Report) - Howard Rheingold isn’t too concerned about whether Google is making us stupid or if Facebook is making us lonely. Those kind of criticisms, Rheingold says, miscalculate the ability humans have to change their behavior, particularly when it comes to how we use social media and the Internet more broadly. “If, like many others, you are concerned social media is making people and cultures shallow, I propose we teach more people how to swim and together explore the deeper end of the pool,” Rheingold said Thursday. Rheingold was visiting the MIT Media Lab to talk about his new book, Net Smart: How to Thrive Online, which examines how people can use the Internet not just to better themselves, but also society as a whole. Rheingold has a longer online history than most, going back to The WELL, one of the first online forums back in the 1980s. Ever since writing about that experience, Rheingold has developed a habit for dropping the kind of book that not just probes what it means to be online, but charts what that means for all of us.

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