Ford announced at this week's Detroit Auto Show that the 2012 C-Max, a five-passenger minivan, will be the company's first plug-in hybrid electric vehicle.READ»
Jessica Mah, faced with her own financial mire, thought other business owners would appreciate a simple way to monitor their finances. She enlisted other Berkeley classmates and created inDinero.com, "We wanted to make it easy, and that meant having everything be as automatic as possible."READ»
Apple's winning more patents all the time, but the latest clutch is fascinating: It's the first patent for solar powered portable devices that's been awarded to the company. Added to the company's other solar patents, it looks like sunny future for Steve Jobs' company.READ»
For years, employees at Google have suggested a project near and dear to their nerd hearts: a Google-led science fair. Today those Googlers and budding scientists worldwide should be ecstatic. The company launched Google Science Fair, the first global online science competition.READ»
Block 2, by Australian designer Henry Pilcher, is the ugliest lamp we’ve ever fallen in love with. An industrial lampshade inserted into a clunky wooden geodesic dome, it looks a giant wiffle ball attacked a lightbulb -- or, at ...READ»
At long last, Apple has ended AT&T's exclusive right to the iPhone--but look on the bright side, AT&T. While many are harping on the millions of customers you're likely to lose, we're focused on the millions of dollars you'll earn in cancellation fees.READ»
Every stretch of America has at least one: an old industrial site that’s so trashed and toxic, it looks like the setting for a Garbage Pail Kids reunion -- not exactly the type of thing you want in your backyard (unless, of course, ...READ»
Rock singer and prolific Twitterer Courtney Love has been sued for defamation over some badly misspelled threats. While the case faces an uphill battle, it also heralds a new front for libel law. Also? Cardinals manager Tony La Russa is involved.READ»
Oregon suffered defeat at the hands of Cam Newton and Auburn last night in the 2011 BCS championship game. But hard as it may have been to watch the gut-wrenching loss, you probably couldn't take your eyes off the Oregon players the ...READ»
A team of a hundred and one musical souls from 30 nations are soon to be performing together at the Sydney Opera House. It's the YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011--and it has vuvuzelas in it.READ»
Microchips are made from silicon and plastic for a good reason: it's very easy to control and make sure each component is exactly like every other. But Dr. Jean-Baptiste Labrune of Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs thinks that electronics made ...READ»
In 2011, you will win prizes for buying broccoli. You will seek help from a device to control your fetish for Eames furniture. And all that twee analog crap Urban Outfitters is always hawking to bed-heady undergrads? You’ll actually ...READ»
China's now test-flying its new J-20 stealth fighter, coincidental with a visit to the nation by Defense Secretary Robert Gates. But exactly how does the Chinese aircraft stealth tech work?READ»
Using social media monitoring and analysis platform Crimson Hexagon, we can now see in real time how Apple, Barnes & Noble and Amazon are performing--and how they are received.READ»
The Earth Institute at Columbia University has just released its Earth Observer app for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Users can interact with visual data ranging from floods to earthquakes to arctic melt.READ»
It's Verizon's big day: Apple's iPhone 4 arrives to the network on Feb 10, ready to steal millions of unsatisfied customers from AT&T and launch Apple's share price into the stratosphere. READ»
About 33% of box-office earnings are now generated from 3-D films, and in 2010 six of the top 10 highest-grossing movies were shot using the technology, with the top two, "Toy Story 3" and "Alice in Wonderland," banking more than a billion dollars each. That's where the trouble starts. READ»