An avalanche of unwanted post could be released upon an unsuspecting victim using nothing more than an internet connection and some simple code, a team of US researchers says.

The attack, devised by Aviel Rubin at Johns Hopkins University and Simon Byers and David Kormann at AT&T Labs, involves automatically subscribing a victim to hundreds of […]

Today is the last day before the cost of registering for the Future of Money Summit increases.

The Future of Money Summit is being produced by the DaVinci Institute along with Forbes Magazine. The event will happen Oct 27-29 in Denver, Colorado.

With all the gloomy market news it’s clear that major forces are at play […]

Top 10 Emerging Trends in the World of Money

The top futurists at the DaVinici Institute will discuss and answer your questions about the challenges of the changing world of money. Some futurists predict a virtual collapse of the current system. Others suggest a gradual morphing, and others claim it’s the dawn of an exciting new […]

We’ve all been fascinated by LED technology for some time now, so it’s good to see this article from MIT’s Tech Review explaining the latest in attempts to replace the light bulb with LEDs. It still sounds like it’s a long way off, but plenty of researchers are trying to tackle the remaining issues in […]

Do media/entertainment technologies connect or disconnect people? That Americans have become increasingly disconnected from one another and the social capital that binds people since the rise of TV and the Net is an idea much debated since Robert Putnam published Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community three years ago (the book is […]

Appliance manufacturer Merloni Elettrodomestici is working on a washing machine that can read RF smart tags embedded in clothing and automatically know how best to wash them. And if you accidentally mix whites and darks, the machine can even you tell you what items you need to remove. Too bad pretty much no one sells […]