Walmart, MasterCard Worldwide and First Data today announced a new, more sustainable payroll
program designed to reduce the number of paper paychecks and pay stubs...
-
-
-
Part docu-drama, part sci-fi flick, The Age of Stupid is a hard movie to describe — except, that is, to say that it is one of the most important films youll see...
-
NASA is planning to send an orbiter to Europa as part of an international fleet of probes -the Europa Jupiter System Mission- slated to launch around 2020 to explore...
-
Bridgette at Inhabitat is dazzled by the Shanghai Corporate Pavilion by Atelier Feichang Jianzhu, being built for the Shanghai World Expo being held next year. Its...
-
Concerns about greenhouse gases and other environmental hazards have spurred governments and companies to try to reduce the environmental impact of everything from...
-
Honshū Wolf, extict due to agression and deforestation Passenger Pigeon, extinct due to habitat loss and massive hunting Chinese River dophine, since...
-
The top-selling Bible in North America will undergo its first revision in 25 years, modernizing the language in some sections and promising to reopen a contentious...
-
P.W. Singer shows how the widespread use of robots in war is changing the realities of combat. He shows us scenarios straight out of science fiction --
-
If humans fail to act on reducing carbon emissions, then geoengineering could be our last hope--that's the finding of a recent paper published the Royal Society....
-
Two years ago we slowed it down to 38 miles an hour; now we've been able to park it then bring it back up to full speed." Lene Hau isn't talking about...
-
The entire surface of Africa, maybe? Actually, it's surprisingly less. Just 496,905 square kilometers. That's really nothing compared to the total world...
-
Robotics expert Noel Sharkey used to be a believer in artificial intelligence. So why does he now think that AI is a dangerous myth that could lead to a dystopian...
-
"Someday, instead of typing your text message on a cramped iPhone keyboard, neuroscientist Michael Linderman says you’ll be scrawling your thoughts in the...
-
ScienceDaily (Aug. 29, 2009) — The ability to envisage the future may be closer than you would think. A recent paper by Sean Hammond and Karl Niklas in the...
-
Despite the popularity of digital music, from single-track purchases to subscriptions, physical media has continued to generate the most music revenue in (almost)...
-
Induction is just plain cool. Instead of using a flame like gas, or radiant heat like standard electric burners, induction burners use a magnetic field. The field...
-
Researchers are working towards mass-producing a bunch of tiny, flea-sized robots to do our bidding. Bring on the miniscule robot helpers! I-SWARM robots could be...
-
What more proof do we need that this is clearly being done to gain profit at the expense of our forests and biodiversity? How is this not a crime? _ Excerpt:...
-
In a lab in Caltech, Harry Atwater holds up a plastic panel, a fraction of a millimeter thick. Even in the bright room, the surface's panel remains jet-black --...
-
"The world has sped up, become more connected and a whole lot busier. As a result, what consumers want from the products and services they buy is fundamentally...
-
