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MIT researcher discovers way to make solar panels from plants

Andreas Mershin, a researcher at MIT, believes he has found a way to generate solar energy by way of solar panels created from agricultural waste such as cut grass and dead tree leaves. If you paid attention in ... Read >

Micron CEO Steve Appleton, 51, dies in plane crash

Steve Appleton, CEO and Chairman of Boise-based chipmaker Micron Technology Inc., died in a small plane crash on Friday. Appleton was 51. Appleton was flying an experimental Lancair single-engine airplane, according to a report by Reuters. After reaching ... Read >

Toyota learning the hard way that Twitter isn’t a spamming service for its products

As we head into the Super Bowl every company and their marketing teams are doing their very best to get their products in front of as many eyes as they possibly can and spinning everything they do ... Read >

Woody Harrelson Angers Reddit, Illustrates AMA Dangers For Would-Be Celeb Redditors

Find me one web geek that doesn't love Woody Harrelson- well, up until yesterday, that might have been harder to do. The star of Zombieland and unabashed, non-aging stoner actor is usually held up as a generally cool ... Read >

Android Smartphones And Tablets Coming To US Government, Military

Android seems to be the operating system of choice when it comes to the US government and military. They've managed to create an operating system that is highly secure and is capable of sending highly classified data ... Read >

Tech envy and who’s jealous of you [Infographic]

Those of us that live day in and day out with technology are use to moving from device to device and not even blinking an eye while we natter on about all the the different gadgets and ... Read >

Let the movie scripts begin – Russian drilling team at the Antarctica go missing

This isn't funny in the least but you can almost hear the movie scripts being written right now, everything from horror to suspense - oh wait, they've done those already haven't they. So this is more a case ... Read >

EU regulators request that Google halt privacy policy changes

Google has come under quite a bit of fire recently over the upcoming revamped privacy policy, and now they're getting some heat from European Union regulators. According to a report by Reuters, European Union regulators sent a letter ... Read >

Facebook More Addictive Than Booze and Cigs? Study Says Perhaps

Quick, what's the first thing you do in the morning? Have a smoke, get some coffee, or check your Facebook updates? It would be seriously interesting to see how many smartphone users indeed wake up in bed and ... Read >

Super Bowl Watchers To Use Their Mobile Phones Significantly, Good News For Advertisers

The Super Bowl is right around the corner and there's expected to be a much larger number of people watching this year, 173 Million people to be precise which is the most in the last eight years. According ... Read >

Google hits up the FCC for an ‘experimental’ licence – so what are they testing now?

Google, Google, Google, you are so full of surprises aren't you, or at least it would appear so given your request to the Federal Communications Commission for permission to test a mysterious "entertainment device" that will utilize ... Read >

Android Market Quite Safe Thanks To Google’s Own Malware Scanner

The Android Market has been subject to a bit of controversy. While Apple and the App Store has a much more controlled process of apps getting in, for Android apps, it's not nearly as difficult. That opens ... Read >

It seems the unlocked Google Nexus on AT&T is sporting the Google Wallet App

This might not seem all that important but the thing is that officially the Google Wallet, the fancy payment app from Google, is only available right now on the Sprint version of the Samsung S 4G. However, ... Read >

New Apple patent points to a social exercising technology

Apple is not known for "being" a social type company, far from it really, but that doesn't stop it from recognizing potential for making money but incorporating the new social world within its products. We saw this ... Read >

[Opps Dept.] iTunes Match is swapping clean versions of songs for the ‘dirty’ ones

I am pretty sure that we can expect a disclaimer about how this is a bug and will be dealt with immediately, at least we hope it is a bug, but Tom Cheredar over at VentureBeat is ... Read >

Komen Reverses Planned Parenthood Decision, Will Continue to Fund Organization

The Susan G. Komen Planned Parenthood smackdown that has been a massive story across the blogosphere just got a new and interesting twist. After ostensibly bleeding donations and goodwill over the past few days and becoming basically a ... Read >

Anonymous steps up its game and posts intercepted FBI and Scotland Yard conference call

Oh boy you can be that this is going to go over really well but it seems that the 'hactivist' group Anonymous has managed to intercept a private conference call between four agents of the FBI and ... Read >

Possible increase in spam expected as once crippled botnet rises from thhe dead

Back near the end of the summer of last year both Microsoft and Kaspersky Lab, a security software company, worked together to bring down one of the reported biggest spam botnets that was responsible for polluting machines ... Read >

Susan G. Komen Foundation Promotes Pink Guns Following Planned Parenthood Controversy

The backlash against the Susan G. Komen Foundation that followed the group's controversial decision to defund Planned Parenthood has been stunning, a goodwill implosion on social media the likes of which have not been seen probably ever. Komen ... Read >