OCI Solar Power completes the largest solar farm in Texas
The first phase of Texas' 400MW solar project is now operating in San Antonio. The 41MW Alamo I solar farm is phase one of a 400MW development, which is expected...
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Samsung Smart TVs to accept “finger gestures” for 2014
Samsung's 2014 Smart TV line will be a step up from the 2013 models. The company described a few of the details in an announcement today, one of which is...
NASA telescope finds water vapor plumes on Jupiter moon
New observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope suggest water vapor plumes are venting from Jupiter’s moon, Europa. The discovery was made on Europa’s south pole, which has previously shown evidence...
How the network industry should view and understand “open”
“Open” as it is currently used is an imprecise term. Here are some select criteria that are most critical in addressing specific networking problems. A number of industry and technology...
CyanogenMod surpasses 10 million installs, future looks bright
CyanogenMod’s Steve Kondik announced over the weekend that the custom Android ROM has been installed on over 10 million devices around the world. The statistics are collected through users that...
LG announces advanced new audio and video lineup for CES
In less than three weeks, LG will be show-casing its latest audio video lineup at the 2014 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The premium selection of products includes...
Spotify sees download boom after free streaming launch
In the days since Spotify rolled out free mobile access to its on-demand music service, the company has seen an explosion in user interest. Earlier this week, Spotify saw its app download rate...
NASA captures making of Earth’s most iconic photographs
What if you could go back in time and see what the Apollo 8 astronauts saw when they snapped the iconic "Earthrise" photograph? Now you can. The making of the iconic space photographs that...
250 hard drives used to make one awesome F1 car
Though this car may look like an actual Formula1 racer at first glance, taking a closer look reveals that there is something unreal about it. Those of you who have...
Warren Buffett dives into wind power
Why is everybody making such a fuss about the latest Warren Buffett wind power purchase? The new order is big news for Siemens, which thanks to Buffett gets to win the...
Does the IRS know how to tax Bitcoins?
It's someone's money and the IRS wants its cut. However, it doesn't seem like anyone knows how virtual currencies are going to be handled by the tax authorities. Despite a...
Nintendo now selling ‘high-capacity’ Wii U GamePad battery
The Wii U GamePad's wireless nature is kind of a figure of speech, what with how often its out-of-the-box battery life requires a charge. Nintendo's high-capacity GamePad battery hasjumped shores to offer a...
Overstock.com will accept Bitcoin, immediately exchange for dollars
Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne made waves in the imaginary money world when he announced the retailer will start accepting payment in bitcoin sometime next year. In interviews, Byrne made his confidence in...
Half-cow, half-machine artificial heart implanted in first human
This week, French surgeons implanted a Carmat artificial heart in a human patient for the very first time. The device, which combines mechanical components and heart tissue derived from cows, is...
Japanese bridge inspection robot has magnetic wheels
Most wall-climbing robots rely on advanced forms of suction to keep them adhered to a flat surface, but Japan's latest wall crawler employs a different method: magnets. Hailing from the Osaka City University Graduate School...
iFixit tears down Valve Steam Machine and gives it high repairability score
The iFixit handymen have managed to get their hands on and disassemble one of the 300 Valve Steam Machine beta consoles that were released to testers only a week ago, awarding...
Swiss researchers created a cube that can sit, jump, and walk
Swiss researchers have created a metallic cube that can "walk" across a surface. Staff at the Federal Institute of Technology Zurich crammed a series of inertia sensors and constantly-spinning rotors into a...
Amazon workers demand company addresses ‘demeaning’ staff conditions
A recent exposé from Bloomberg Businessweek painted a critical picture of Amazon’s work environment for executives, but a petition currently gaining momentum in the UK suggests that things are far worse for some of...
Honey Badger Hedge Fund: Hackers predict stock market with open source mojo
Can an algorithm successfully predict great stock moves? That’s the premise behind Honey Badger Hedge Fund, a super-secret Twitter stock-picker that was put together with a little economics know-how and some exploring with...
T-Mobile’s next move could be devastating for AT&T and Verizon
An unnamed source tells TmoNews that T-Mobile is planning an initiative that would pay off subscribers’ early termination fees if they switch from a rival carrier to T-Mobile. Specifically the source said that the...