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It's not just what we put into the air of cities that makes the air hard to breathe, it's the cities themselves.

With a new indoor weather monitoring system, IBM makes it easier to ensure rare art is properly preserved. But the implications go far beyond museums. Humans have, in general, done a decent job of preserving relics of the past in museums

How is building a company like training for a triathlon?

Knowing the bathroom, eating, and cleanliness habits of consumers can make or break a campaign. Question is: How far are you willing to go? How well would you say you know your consumer--not just the broad-stroke stuff, either, like their income or marital status

Apple bought more semiconductors in 2010 than any of its peers, and the spread will be even larger in 2011. Semiconductors power chips. Chips power tech.

Clean power from the Earth used to use a lot of water. But a new discovery means that water can be replaced with CO2, which gets left in the ground and doesn't alter the climate

Sure, Apple's new syncing service might help the music industry recoup some of the money it's lost to piracy.

Is that little "neighborhood" group funded by the Koch brothers?

Activating Jedi powers with motions actually used in the movies? Yes, please! Humans were not meant to experience the exhilaration of life-threatening action while slumped on a couch covered in Doritos crumbs

LulzSec is in the news for hacking Sony, Nintendo, and PBS, among others. And now it seems the group is tied to hacktivist group Anonymous

Pity the poor programmer whose software doesn't automatically sync every digital thing you own across all of your devices instantly. Thanks to Apple, if you're not in the cloud soon, you're buried. People have been yammering for years about how, eventually, everything is going to have to move to the cloud.

Twitter is deeply integrated into the upcoming code refresh for iPhones and iPads, iOS 5, Apple announced today. One-touch tweeting is a handy kick for Apple's social networking plans, but potentially a massive strap-on rocket booster for Twitter . As part of the keynote address at WWDC 2011 Scott Forstall, head of iPhone software development and a potential successor to Steve Jobs himself, revealed 10 new features of the 5th generation operating system for iPhones and iPads

When you measure BPA levels based on a lifetime of daily exposure, it turns out our bodies are full of the poisonous stuff. BPA is practically inescapable--it's found in soup cans, water bottles, store receipts, dental linings, plastic-packaged foods, and any number of other products. Canada has already declared that BPA is a toxic substance, and the stuff has been banned in baby bottles in Europe, China, and Canada, but we're still exposed to BPA constantly.

There's a method to the madness of France's curious Internet bans--an underlying philosophy that's causing conflict with companies around the world. The world stared in befuddled amusement as France banned the words "Twitter" and "Facebook" from TV

It seems like there is a new flood, tornado, or hurricane every day. Is this the kind of meteorological insanity we need to learn to expect? Snowpocalypse! Tornadoes! Floods! Climate change may seem like tired old news or ideological propaganda to some of us, but this year's weather has certainly been something to sit up and take notice of.