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Researchers at Cornell University have created a website that will hasten the adoption of 3-D printing by allowing users to create sculptures virtually and render them in physical form.
With a network of dashboard-mounted phones that can collect data on traffic lights and tell drivers how to avoid inefficient stopping and starting, the nation can save on time and fuel.
No hurricane evacuation order has been issued for New York City, but City officials haven't ruled out the possibility. Meanwhile, you can plug your address into this useful official City […]
The Virginia Earthquake has had most of our attention this week, but volcanoes continue to be noisy around the world (although no more so than usual). You can get yourself […]
A new patent application from Apple signals the company's intent to innovate wireless charging but the idea itself, an awkward charging tower, has critics scratching their heads.
Guy Kawasaki tells Big Think the secret to Apple's success has been Steve Jobs's ability to anticipate where the market will be heading, as opposed to simply reacting to where […]
We live in the age of instant punditry, and I am as guilty of it as anyone else. On the basis of having reported from inside Libya three or four […]
Steve Jobs and Apple's ascendancy to the throne of world technology companies was not without its pitfalls. So what did the world's foremost tech guru learn along the way?
Content on the Internet is growing like weed. Every minute there are 48h of video uploaded to YouTube. One year ago at a conference, Eric Schmidt shared that every two […]
A pair of Australian computer engineers is working to improve touch screen typing so the experience more closely parallels the touch typing that laptop and P.C. users are used to.
A French communication company has developed a thin, wearable film that converts sound waves into electricity. The technology was recently used to power smartphones.
Shakespeare’s had a tough year. It’s not enough that anthropologists want to shoot lasers at his skeleton to find out if he smoked weed. Now the guy who directed Independence […]
The recent 5.8 earthquake that hit outside Washington, D.C. perhaps created more psychological than physical damage. So the good news is that only nerves were rattled, rather than buildings although […]
In the midst of a battle against cancer, Steve Jobs has resigned as C.E.O. of Apple, the company he saved from bankruptcy to lead the world market in creative computing devices.
The phrase “too big to fail” still rings hollowly and painfully for everyone who remembers the 2008 bailout of the reeling U.S. financial system that was termed necessary to avoid […]
For the last two years the Republican Party has largely taken the position that taxes should never go up. They should only be lowered. For all the party’s talk of […]
The communication of chemistry to wider society is difficult because of 'chemophobia', its inherent complexity and its lack of unifying grand themes, explain Matt Hartings and Declan Fahy in an […]
Well, we've been wondering when we might see more signs of magma rising underneath El Hierro in the Canary Island and now we seem to have got some. Over the […]
As a resident of Concord Massachusetts, where American revolutionaries first shot back at their British oppressors, its impossible to watch what’s going on in Libya and Syria and Egypt […]
--Guest post by Patrick Riley, AoE Culture Correspondent If you believe your emotions can affect your health, nutritionist-author Nora Gedgaudas would say that's only part of the story – because your emotions […]