From their data facility cooled by seawater, to the green-friendly architects they hired to design their new offices, we here at Techland are big fans of all the sustainable initiatives Google’s been unveiling.
In the latest post on the Google blog, the company revisits its RechargeIT initiative from 2007, which aimed to cut CO2 …
It’s a giant walled-in table of sand—a sandbox by any other name—and it’s helping predict where the deadly Arizona Wallow Fire could go next.
(More on TIME.com: Top 10 Devastating Wildfires)
That fire, currently raging through Arizona’s eastern mountains, continues to burn out of control as it races towards New Mexico—it’s …
You know those “Promoted” items that appear in the list of trending topics on your Twitter home page? Ever wondered how much it might cost to buy one?
Turns out the going rate is a cool $120,000 per day.
And if you’re smart, you’ll buy one sooner rather than later, because that price is five times higher than it was just a year …
Undoubtedly, re-penning the law of the land is a fairly considerable task. But keep in mind that it’s no longer the age of quills and parchment paper. So what’s a country to do in these high-tech times?
Simple: Follow Iceland’s lead.
The European island country is, like any good non-dictatorship, turning to its people for some …
Over at TIME.com, my Technologizer column for this week is about Microsoft’s demo of Windows 8 last week and Apple’s demos of OS X 10.7, iOS 5, and iCloud this week–how they relate to each other and what they might mean for the future of personal technology. I refused to talk about the PC dying, but I did say that we may be seeing the …
Mac Rumors is reporting that Apple has quietly relaxed its controversial guidelines regarding in-app subscription pricing for developers, which most directly affects apps by magazine and newspaper publishers.
Apple’s policy had required in-app subscriptions to be the “same price or less than it is offered outside the app,” which …
Good morning, madam, how can I help you today?
“I’d like a bikini please.”
Certainly madam, I’ll just print one for you.
This, ladies and gentlemen (but mostly ladies), is the kind of bikini you can get now that you’re Living in the Future.
The N12 bikini (named after the plastic it’s printed with) consists of hundreds of …
Don’t call it Blu-ray, but Blu-ray-like will do. Sites like Blu-ray.com sure got it wrong mid-April when they reported Nintendo’s next console would include a Blu-ray optical drive, but the gist of that rumor turns out to be half-true: mass storage several times greater than DVD’s increasingly constrained gigabyte maximum, only in a …
A computer technician has been arrested in California for allegedly installing peeping software on women’s computers. The software apparently allowed the man, Trevor Harwell, to remotely access the computers and use their webcams to take pictures and videos of the unsuspecting owners.
(More on TIME.com: Gadgets – Then and Now)
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Nintendo’s chief executive took some time after Tuesday’s press conference to talk to me about the kind of thinking that led to the creation of his company’s upcoming “Wii U” console.
(More: E3 2011: Hands-On with Nintendo’s New ‘Wii U’)
In the interview that follows, Satoru Iwata talks about how the Wii U will end living room …
It turns out Citibank was hacked in early May. Wait, you hadn’t heard? Me neither. Well, that’s just because Citibank chose to keep quiet about it until now.
We’re talking a fairly serious hack, too. The personal and account information of some 200,000 Citibank card holders in North America was breached, reports Reuters, including …
In an interview with GameTrailers.com, Nintendo of America’s Reggie Fils-Aime admitted that his company used footage from games running on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation platforms during the unveiling of Nintendo’s new “Wii U” console yesterday.
GameTrailers.com‘s Geoff Kingsley asked, “Now you showed a sizzle reel of a lot of …
