Stallman, the Swedish Pirate Party, and copyleft

A few days ago, Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation published an op-ed to the GNU project's website, in which he criticized the copyright views of the Swedish Pirate Party, which had recently succeeded in its endeavor to get a seat in Brussels' European...

Steve Jobs Acquires Microsoft, Google, and Amazon

Many people are concerned about Steve Jobs' health. News like this come as a relief to us who have grown to love the man. May he give us more products like the Ipod and Iphone. I'm still waiting for that Kindle-killer product. " Local guy Steve Jobs, 42, a relatively unknown...

Camera Clothing: MIT Scientists Weave Fabric Able to Take Photos

MIT scientists have developed a "light-detecting" fabric that could be transformed into clothing that can take photographs. Researchers have considered a potential application of this 'camera clothing' to be used in...

Find "Where's the Party At..." in NYC & SF - Hot Spots Locator

It is common knowledge that in the course of every day, people are engaging in all kinds of activities and around different parts of a city.  From morning until night, people travel to work, while at...

Breakthrough battery can charge up in seconds

" Scientists in the United States have invented a battery that can charge in seconds, promising a revolution in power storage that could also help green cars and renewable energy. The advance allows lithium-ion...

One Laptop Per Child Project Cuts 50% of Staff

The economic crisis is leaving no industry, organization, or sector unscathed — and the One Laptop Per Child project is no exception. Today the project's founder Nicholas Negroponte announced that OLPC will be...

Transparent Aluminum - More Than Just a Trekkie's Pipe-Dream ?

Remember Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, (Paramount Pictures, 1986)?Well, in case your memory is anything like my own, recall to mind, Scotty, a persona still invoked even today when in frustration or maybe out of...

Solar Energy to Hydrogen, All Night Long

MIT Copying the leave of a plant photosynthesis system. The plant produces with sunlight sugar, to store for "night fuel"Solar cells with specified Catalysts can do the same, convertingsunlight into Hydrogen, to...

Popcorn with the cell phone -

Watch these videos of cell phones poping corn!Just to add another thought to the discussion, wasn't it August 2005 when the sun's magnetic shield flipped? The earth's magnetic shield is slowly shifting. I've heard it said that this will cause birds to become "confused",...

The geography of power - how communication has become a global currency and w...

A fascinating article appeared in a recent edition of Newsweek called Emotional Connections. The article describes an installation at the New York Museum of Modern Art called New York Talk Exchange. Here,...

is wikipedia violating human rights?

first  i want to explain why i am against wikipedia.i also want to let people know that i am not alone.recently wikipedia was called "the largest distributed bureaucracy in the world".i am against them,...

CANCER RESEARCH: MIT IDs link between brain tumor proteins

" MIT researchers have identified a critical link between two proteins found in brain tumors , a discovery that could eventually help treat a form of brain cancer that kills 99 percent of patients."

Comcast Blocks Internet and Public

"“Honestly, I’m just getting paid to hold someone’s seat,” said one person attending the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) hearing in Boston last week (on 2008-02-25). “I don’t even know...

Adapting journalism for a participatory culture

Crosspost from Reportr.netDay two of the Knight science journalism symposium in Boston and Henry Jenkins of MIT blasts the audience with a sprint through new media, popular culture and new possibilities for science journalism. The thrust of his talk was how participatory...

An Oil Giant's Green Dream

"If you've filled your tank with gas, or warmed your home with natural gas, there's a chance you sent money to Abu-Dhabi. So it might come as a surprise to learn that Abu Dhabi is this week hosting the world's first Future Energy Summit, a three-day gathering of more than...

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