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Tesla’s electric Model X adds sexy to the minivan

Tesla’s electric Model X adds sexy to the minivan

When one thinks of Tesla, they think of high-end electric vehicle performance. The company is known for putting out some...

As the workforce goes mobile, security concerns rise

As the workforce goes mobile, security concerns rise

As more offices become virtual and more employees work from home or on the go, the logistics of keeping devices...

Marketing benefits of the new social aspects of Google News

Marketing benefits of the new social aspects of Google News

With Google aspiring to be a major player in the social media space, it should come as no surprise to...

Super insulated foam torched in man’s hand (right before he eats it)

Super insulated foam torched in man’s hand (right before he eats it)

It's one thing to take a handful of foam into one's hand and apply a 7,000-degree torch to it for...

Amazon Irony: The chain store “killer” to launch a chain of physical stores

Amazon Irony: The chain store “killer” to launch a chain of physical stores

The company that many blame in part for the downfall of many large and small retail stores around the world...

The growing reach of social media’s election impact

The growing reach of social media’s election impact

Social media and the internet in general had dramatic effects on the election in 2008. This year is proving to...

Smartphones on pace to near 1 billion by 2015

Smartphones on pace to near 1 billion by 2015

The mobile-device explosion may be getting fueled in recent months by Kindle Fires and iPads, but smartphones continue to be...

Corning expands its vision of a glass future

Corning expands its vision of a glass future

Nearly a year ago, Corning put out a video called "A Day Made of Glass." In it, they showed a...

2012 technology to highlight NADA conference in Las Vegas

2012 technology to highlight NADA conference in Las Vegas

Gadgets and gizmos are top of mind when people start talking about technology. It's in the phones that we carry....

Autonomous nano quadrotors amaze (and terrify) with complicated formation runs

Autonomous nano quadrotors amaze (and terrify) with complicated formation runs

Quadrotor technology developed at the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) lab at the University of Pennsylvania is able...

Online payments may be the future, but today consumers are still concerned

Online payments may be the future, but today consumers are still concerned

It's clear that online payments are the future. Many pay for nearly everything online, but there are still security and...

Making the internet more open… in education

Making the internet more open… in education

Over the past few decades starting with the computer revolution and continuing through the digital age, the Massachusetts Institute of...

Note to Startups: If you’re going to steal from others… well, just don’t steal from others

Note to Startups: If you’re going to steal from others… well, just don’t steal from others

The internet is rife with theft. People take content and concepts from others on a regular basis and pawn it...

What Gingrich, Santorum, and Romney should learn from Paul (and Obama) about the internet

What Gingrich, Santorum, and Romney should learn from Paul (and Obama) about the internet

Today is a different world when it comes to political campaigns. A decade or two ago given the same candidates...

The Silicon Valleys… of the world

The Silicon Valleys… of the world

Just as movies are made outside of Hollywood and cars are built outside of Detroit, entrepreneurs, startups, and venture capitalists...

Predators versus prey in the startup ecosystem

Predators versus prey in the startup ecosystem

The "Startup Sea" is broad and loaded with life. There are those who are considered predators, which means someone has...

SOPA and PIPA: Everything you need to know

SOPA and PIPA: Everything you need to know

Today is SOPA Blackout Day to oppose the bills currently being proposed in Congress, Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and...

The SOPA blackout is the most American thing we’ve done all day

The SOPA blackout is the most American thing we’ve done all day

The Tea Party movement was intended for Americans to harken to the revolutions of the past when tyranny and taxation...

Modern language wars: PHP vs python vs ruby

Modern language wars: PHP vs python vs ruby

There are several questions that programmers must answer when deciding on their language of choice. Depending on who you ask,...

Netflix woes continue, this time from angry investors with a class-action suit

Netflix woes continue, this time from angry investors with a class-action suit

The terrible summer and fall that Netflix had in 2011 seemed to have turned as poor decisions were reversed, new...