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In a small but very significant way Apple is trying to change China. It's a step perhaps no one else could make, and it's rather complicated.

Scientists in Portugal are in the process of developing a special pair of pajamas that they hope will prevent symptoms caused by the skin condition, eczema.

The Dog-Bark Snake Bot You've probably heard of robot snakes before, useful in search-and-rescue scenarios because they can worm their way into confined spaces--perhaps in collapsed buildings--that other machines can't match. You may also know SAR teams sometimes use sniffer dogs to help them locate victims trapped in rubble. But you've probably never conflated these two notions, and pictured a SAR dog that has a slave snake-bot that it can deploy and control with a bark.

This week saw the launch of what could be seen as a revolutionary cell phone service in France. Contingent on a couple of rules, Free.fr is offering an all-but-free cell phone service that promises truly unlimited data, voice, and SMS monthly tariffs.

The final vote is in! The committee has worked its way through an amazingly large group of entrees and come up with the Top (Bottom?) 10.

What's Greece got to do with your business? How worried should you be?

A modest, recession-inspired demonstration grabs plenty of online attention. Is the future of activism more digital than physical? Fast Company goes inside the Sept

A modest, recession-inspired demonstration grabs plenty of online attention. Is the future of activism more digital than physical

A modest, recession-inspired demonstration grabs plenty of online attention. Is the future of activism more digital than physical?

Some of the most remarkable vintages that fortified winemaker David Guimaraens has brought to market emerged not from his cellars but from those of his neighbors along Portugal’s Douro River.

Pre-pay cell phones globally dominate 70% of the market. As Android explodes and Apple ponders an iPhone Lite, prepare yourself for the true smartphone skirmish. As noted in an analysis by Asymco, the figures for global cell phone use show that 70% of the world relies on pre-pay cell phones and their tariffs and unsubsidized handset prices

The InterContinental Porto–Palacio das Cardosas opens June 15 in Porto, Portugal, and it’s the country’s first InterContinental location. Situated in the old city of Porto—a UNESCO World Heritage Site and onetime outpost of the Roman Empire—the hotel offers guests luxury accommodation in convenient proximity to the famous port wine lodges ...

01 / ESPN > > For integrating new tech like a startup. Sure, it's a behemoth, with a staggering 107 million weekly fans across seven cable networks, a magazine, radio network, podcasts, and various sites

The home of the future will be bedecked with smart sensors that send their data to the cloud so you can manage the house from afar--yes, this is a story we've heard before. But now Microsoft has joined a plan to build a smart city jammed with exactly these smart homes in Portugal. Living PlanIT , which calls itself "one of the world's leading smart city and urban development technology providers" has been working on a plan for a smart city in northern Portugal for quite a while--currently a 2013 unveiling looks likely