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As Apple, we assume, gears up for a press event to reveal the iPhone 5--and possibly a handful of other innovations--the rumor mill spins up, and leaks from inside Apple reach the press. Here's what's going on: Leaked Parts A number of leaked parts purporting to show the partly disassembled guts of an updated iPhone have surfaced online

[youtube aPgPyq8EonE] NASA is, the Agency urges in a news release , "ready to move forward with the development of the Space Launch System--an advanced heavy-lift launch vehicle that will provide an entirely new national capability for human exploration beyond Earth's orbit. The messy politics behind the story aren't innovative (the Apollo program was canceled to make way for the Shuttle, and the Shuttle has now been ditched to make way for the SLS, with bitter discussions and budget controversies along for the ride, as ever) but the rocket itself is going to be. Because NASA's next "big stick" binds together 50 years of research and lessons into one 21st century rocket

To resupply Arctic mines and oil rigs, roads are expensive (if not simply out of the question).

As the elderly become more tech-savvy, there are new apps and devices to help them lead better lives. A new device from Intel and GE is designed to connect seniors to each other--and to their caregivers. Social isolation in senior citizens is all too common

Tuesday, June 07 More than 30 years after Atari popularized the interchangeable game cartridge, gaming-software sales top $33 billion annually, with the global industry value greater than $100 billion. As players big and small convene at E3 in Los Angeles to catch a glimpse of gaming's future, we take a look back at the innovations that got us here.

Removing subsidies for both dirty and clean energy would force everyone to compete on their own merits. The federal government should get rid of permanent energy subsidies for all energy sources, including fossil fuels, nuclear, solar, wind, biofuels.

Ford --which is about to release an all-electric version of the Focus--just put out the above map of the United States with the cities it feels are best suited to electric car ownership. And with a few exceptions, it looks like the flyover states aren't making preparations for the messianic arrival of the electric car. What do you want to bet that in the next presidential election, we'll add "electric-car" to the litany of liberal-associative words like arugula, lattes, and sushi

The recession has highlighted the need for affordable, efficient, quick-to-build structures in urban areas. Because while many of us want to live in pricey cities like Seattle and San Francisco, few people can afford the steel and concrete structures that are nice to live in (and hold up in earthquakes).

The social network is hoping hardware companies will take a page from the software open source movement and collaborate to spur innovation. They might be disappointed. Facebook didn’t spend eighteen months and tens of millions of dollars developing more powerful--and more energy efficient--data centers and servers so that it could go into the hardware business

Microsoft today sued Barnes & Noble, Foxconn, and Invantec over patent infringement stemming from their use of Android-based e-reader and tablet devices. In the suit, Microsoft alleges Barnes & Noble and its device manufacturers, Foxconn and Invantec, have violated patents related to functionality embedded in the Android OS devices. “The Android platform infringes a number of Microsoft’s patents, and companies manufacturing and shipping Android devices must respect our intellectual property rights," said Horacio Gutierrez, Microsoft's corporate VP and deputy general counsel of intellectual property and licensing, in a statement