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Leaves are the ultimate solar panel. If we're going to power more of the world with the sun, we're going to need to imitate plants, one way or another. Enough solar energy strikes the earth in one hour to power our civilization for a year , and futurists like Ray Kurzweil see us moving to an all-solar civilization in the span of a single human lifetime

Flying Dinosaur Bot There's a big debate about how modern bird evolved from flying dinosaurs, and another about how those dinosaurs learned to fly: Did they gradually get better at gliding like a flying squirrel, or did they run-flap along the ground giving them better hunting speed and the ability to easily leap onto perches?

Dreaming up travel on Trippy makes it all a reality, says J.R. Johnson, the startup's founder

When it comes to consumer insights, the rise of the social web has been both a blessing and a curse: a blessing because companies now have an unlimited amount of data about their customers at their fingertips; a curse because they have to figure out a way to sift through all of that data to figure out what’s meaningful and what isn’t.

"We are no longer a general purpose search engine," Kavanaugh tells us. Instead, Ask.com uses proprietary, semantic search technology to deliver answers from it's own content banks, community, experts, and from all over the web. Today, Google captures nearly 65% of all U.S.

I conduct many interviews via phone, such as with Clayton Christensen , Sunni Brown , MailChimp’s CEO Ben Chestnut , Adrian Slywotzky and Geoffrey Moore . I love phone interviews because I can learn a plethora of information from really interesting people in a fairly short period of time.

I conduct many interviews via phone, such as with Clayton Christensen , Sunni Brown , MailChimp’s CEO Ben Chestnut , Adrian Slywotzky and Geoffrey Moore . I love phone interviews because I can learn a plethora of information from really interesting people in a fairly short period of time.

Firefox is one of the world's most popular desktop browsers, with more than 450 million users. But as the world increasingly turns to mobile devices to access the web, Mozilla is in danger of getting left in the dust. A recent Pew report found that roughly 68% of all smartphone owners access the mobile web on a typical day; what's more, 25% of those users go online mostly using their phone (rather than, say, a PC)

First there were rumors based on some patent applications and thus it seemed Apple was going to use face recognition tech from its acquisition of Polar Rose in future iPhones. Then hackers digging through the code inside a beta test version of iOS5 found hooks that confirmed face recognition was going to be a big part of it

The social network is watching your every move, and your friends. And while it isn't as nefarious as Big Brother, do we really want our profiles to become another marketing space?

Just about every news outlet in the world is buzzing about the launch of Amazon's new Kindle tablet, called the Fire. The real story is not the Fire, however. It's Amazon Silk, the new properietary browser created just for Kindle

Terrorist organizations are notorious videographers--particularly when it comes to uploading clips to the web to spread messages or recruit sympathizers. Now private company IntelCenter has assembled one of the world's largest collections of streaming terrorist videos for viewing on demand. Terrorist organizations love making videos and uploading them to the Internet.

If Amazon's new Kindle Fire doesn't make it; it won't be from lack of hype in the press. Actually, I can give you a list of reasons why the Fire leaves me cool. First however, let's go over the launch details.

Most attribute the runaway success of Amazon's Kindle to the E Ink technology that makes it so readable. But if that were true, why didn't Sony's Librie, which used the same technology and was launched three years earlier in the vibrant Japanese book market, succeed? The true explanation of the Kindle's triumph is something far less obvious--the behind-the-screen elements that make up a product's backstory

Forget Wi-Fi, forget Bluetooth, forget NFC and even wireless charging--that rat's nest of wires behind your computer desk is going nowhere fast.