Chapter 2 of the Great Dot-Com Bust of 2000 has begun, the part in which former employees of Internet start-ups try to re-acclimate to the corporate world. While they were gone, they tasted what it was like to introduce products without multilayered approvals, to set their own hours, to party hard as well as work [...]

Enforcing tighter standards and introducing a healthy dose of digital smarts will minimize the risk of future blackouts
For a commodity we take for granted, electricity is remarkably challenging to deliver. The national grid that sends electrons to our computers and toasters is, in essence, one huge electrical circuit. The laws of physics dictate that [...]

Toyota plans to release a car next month in Japan that parallel parks itself, an Australian newspaper reported.
Toyota has rigged its hybrid Prius model with special gear to accomplish the feat. It uses a rear-mounted camera and a computer program to perform the task, consistently making a perfect reverse park without the driver touching [...]

The people that are developing open-source software are contributing a great deal to society. Complimentary currencies may hold the key to providing a method to reward those who contribute.
The open source movement has made serious inroads into changing the way business is being conducted throughout the world. In addition to its obvious advantages of being [...]