Since Sunday, Democrats have been buzzing about the re-revelation that during the 1980s, Sen. John McCain served on the board of a far-right conservative organization that had supplied arms and funds to paramilitary organizations in Latin America.

Venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins digs into its Green Growth fund to lead a $75 million investment in Silver Spring Networks, which uses IP-enabled devices to improve grid reliability.

This Sunday, six computer programs will be put through the Turing test in an attempt to win their creator not only an 18-carat gold medal and $100,000, but to prove that computers are capable of thought.

Food vs. biofuel, with a new twist! Now that biodiesel is cost-competitive with its petroleum cousin, algae-farms have been popping up all over Arizona and other warm areas. But this Arizona shrimp farm has an advantage: his shrimp already eat algae, so he knows exactly how to grow it.

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The director general Mark Thompson has directed the corporation to think beyond proprietary rights management to a new era of interoperability that offers consumers wider choice, control and benefits from "network effects" - the virality and interconnectedness of the web.

In today's uncertain and, well, terrifying economic climate, it's good to think ahead. While we don't want to alarm you, basically your company could go broke at any second and you'll be out on the street. Even worse, it's in their best interest to keep it from you until the very last moment. All you have are the emails that arrive in your inbox, t

The latest whispers are that Apple will announce a notebook made from a solid brick of aluminum

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The Verdict: True.