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Introducing Starred , where we take

Introducing Starred , where we take

A Q&A with the director of Microsoft's Envisioning Lab, where they're working 10 years ahead, growing plants on the walls, and thinking about how your data will do your bidding in the future. The most unbelievable part of Microsoft's eye-catching Productivity Future Vision video , released earlier this week, isn't the see-through refrigerator, the software app that discovers a product design breakthrough on its own, or the plants growing on the wall of the ethereally white office. (That last one, actually, is a real office on the Microsoft campus.) No, the most unbelievable part is how clean every surface is--in the car, in the office, and even in a kitchen where a bake sale project is underway.

German scientists succeeded in calculating the time evolution of the vacuum decay in detail.

In his new book, "Reinventing Fire," Lovins creates a system for powering a 21st century civilization without using 20th century methods. Amory Lovins, the chairman of the Rocky Mountain Institute and the author of influential books like Winning the Oil Endgame and Natural Capitalism, is back with a new book--and this time, he's claiming that the U.S.

FamiliesGo! founder Eileen P. Gunn writes about the underlying web analytics that steer her business decisions. I kind of love Google Analytics

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About 800 doctors and medical workers donate their time inside LA's Memorial Arena for a once-a-year free health clinic organized by the non-profit CareNow.

After working together as client and vendor, a real estate broker teamed up with his Web services provider to launch a firm that combines each of their best skills. Great business partnerships are often forged out of friendship. Sergey Brin and Larry Page met in college.

Welcome to another edition of Starred , where we take you deep inside the inboxes of our favorite CEOs, entrepreneurs, and VCs.

These are tough times for science and technology journalists, who, if they still have jobs, rarely have the time and travel budgets required for in-depth reporting. But some journalists are still managing to produce tough, labor-intensive, on-the-ground investigations of vitally important topics. One standout is my long-time friend Glenn Zorpette of IEEE Spectrum , the magazine of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

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We all have busy lives, and catching all the good shows on TV is one of the things that gets missed in the daily grind. Here's how you can get your television fix, and in ways that are convenient for anyone

Call me crazy, but I went on a date two weeks after my double mastectomy. Thanks to the painkillers, half the time I thought I was on the moon.

I wasn’t paying attention as I took a diagonal shortcut across Toronto’s Nathan Phillips Square this August.