Jul 22 2011
A.I.-Based Service Nixes Gadget Buyers’ Remorse
Helpful site finds the best time to buy devices based on their life cycles.
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May 02 2011
Bin Laden Attack Live-Tweeted; Read the Tweets
A tweeter in the Pakistani town where Osama bin Laden was killed, Abbottabad, inadvertently live-tweeted U.S. special forces' attack on bin Laden's compound. Read his tweets, bottom up.
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Mar 25 2011
Controversial Apps Get the Axe
Apps promising "gay cure" and DUI checkpoint alerts were pulled from app stores.
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Mar 22 2011
Volunteers Report Radiation Levels Online
Citizens equipped with hand-held Geiger counters are part of a grass-roots effort to monitor and report information not always readily available from the government.
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Jan 04 2011
Play a Game, Feed Hungry People
Correct answers to quiz questions results in actual rice being donated to people in need.
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Dec 11 2010
Bringing the Bucks to Bike-Sharing
Bike sharing is convenient, fun, and cheap. A new software program aims to give cash back to bikers.
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Nov 24 2010
What Are Green Jobs?
There are many different shades of "green" when it comes to jobs, but for the 9 percent of Americans out of work, the definition matters less than the availability of work.
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Nov 12 2010
Wal-Mart Machines Pay for Trash
Get three cents for trash, including pens and spent glue tubes, that would otherwise head to a landfill.
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Nov 08 2010
Twitter Chatbot Counters Anti-Global Warming Tweets
A Twitter account automatically sends replies with accurate information about global warming to Twitter users who use key phrases that may signal that user is a global warming skeptic.
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Sep 15 2010
Are Batteries Bad for the Environment?
Without an eco-friendlier alternative to batteries, recycling rechargeables is the best way consumers can prevent those heavy metals from leeching into the environment.
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