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  • Y2K-style computer bug looms over Taiwan

    Tue, Jun 08, 2010 10:52 PM by Agence France-Presse

    Taiwan's calendar counts time from the 1911 revolution that brought down the last Chinese emperor, meaning January 1 will be the start of year 100.

  • BP redirects the flow of information with Google AdWords

    Tue, Jun 08, 2010 6:35 PM by Karl Burkart

    BP is coming under criticism for buying 'gulf oil spill' search advertising on Google. Will the company's attempt to redirect online traffic backfire?

  • Americans join hands to protect beaches from Big Oil

    Sun, Jun 06, 2010 11:29 PM by Karl Burkart

    Thousands of Americans gather on June 26 to make a bold statement to Big Oil execs: 'Stay off our beaches.'

  • Top 5 hottest environmental athletes

    Fri, Jun 04, 2010 5:27 PM by Karl Burkart

    Lance Armstrong endorses Nissan Leaf and Planet 100 counts down the top 5 most environmentally friendly athletes.

  • China boasts world's second-fastest supercomputer

    Tue, Jun 01, 2010 12:44 AM by Agence France-Presse

    The U.S. still tops the list with its Jaguar supercomputer at a government facility in Tennessee.

  • 3 amazing videos about chimps and gorillas

    Fri, May 28, 2010 7:22 PM by Karl Burkart

    It turns out humans are not the brightest primates in the world. Here is a collection of videos that shows just how amazingly intelligent and "human-like" our primate relatives are.

  • Pakistan lifts ban on YouTube, but blocks 1,200 web pages

    Thu, May 27, 2010 7:55 AM by Agence France-Presse

    This is the second time Pakistan has banned YouTube for "blasphemous" cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

  • Jindal's photo album of wetlands oil

    Fri, May 21, 2010 9:38 PM by Karl Burkart

    Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal puts up Flickr album of gruesome oil creeping into the Louisiana wetlands.

  • Dirty facts about the BP oil catastrophe

    Sat, May 15, 2010 2:36 AM by Karl Burkart

    A compilation of some of the most disturbing factoids about BP and the federal government's response to the catastrophe.

  • Facebook data.

    Facebook be forewarned ... the Diaspora is coming

    Thu, May 13, 2010 4:04 AM by Karl Burkart

    4 supergeeks just raised enough money to program a peer-to-peer social networking system that could spell trouble for Facebook. Will they succeed?

  • Corporations, the crowd police are watching you

    Tue, May 11, 2010 6:51 PM by Karl Burkart

    In my talk last week, I sent out a warning -- big corporations need to be very, very careful about greenwashing. The crowd is watching.

  • JoinThePipe connects water lovers around the world

    Tue, May 11, 2010 1:56 AM by Karl Burkart

    A new social network for tap water drinkers is about to launch, and it hopes to redistribute 'water wealth' to areas most in need.

  • PETA succeeds in taking bark out of Mafia Wars

    Mon, May 10, 2010 11:25 AM by Michael d'Estries

    Animal rights organization urged Facebook game designer to drop portrayal of dogs as violent weapons.

  • Google's crisis response in the Gulf

    Wed, May 05, 2010 8:36 PM by Karl Burkart

    Google Crisis Response launches a Gulf oil spill crisis page equipped with satellite imagery and breaking video.

  • Crowd-sourced news comes to the rescue in the Gulf

    Wed, May 05, 2010 7:04 PM by Karl Burkart

    The Ushahidi mobile reporting platform has comes to the rescue in Haiti, India and Congo. Now it comes to the Louisiana Gulf to aid in the oil spill cleanup.

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