Two entrepreneurs with a love of space have joined forces to create a company that will take passengers to space.

When you need a quick fact at the office, you can always lift your head above “the cubes” and broadcast your request to your fellow workers — or you can reach for your cell phone and send a message to Cellphedia.

Where most people see pond scum, Isaac Berzin sees oil–and a hedge against global warming.

A looming boom in in-game advertising got industry pooh-bahs drooling at E3, with marketers and game execs salivating over the prospect of colonizing one of pop-culture’s last virgin territories.

A Scottish company will deploy sausage-shaped tubes off Portugal to create the world’s first commercial wave power plant, providing electricity to 1,500 homes from 2006, a partner in the Scottish firm said on Friday.

The U.S. government does not want billboards in space.

Harry McCracken:
I spent most of today at an event called the Google Factory Tour–which involved neither a factory nor a tour, but turned out to be a worthwhile opportunity to hear a bunch of Google people talk about Google the company, Google the array of services, and Google the philosophy.

Stanford University, Volkswagen and a venture-capital firm are making a major effort to win the 2nd DARPA Challenge (a $2 million prize) by driving 175 miles across the desert in 10 hours — with no one in the driver’s seat.