Mon 1 Dec 2008
When outsourcing first began, most college students and recent grads weren’t concerned with whether or not their chosen industry would remain based in the U.S. Today, many workers realize they have equally educated and skilled workers competing for the same jobs overseas.
Mon 1 Dec 2008
Barry R. McCaffrey, a retired four-star Army general, has quietly flourished at the intersection of network news and wartime commerce.
Mon 1 Dec 2008
Facebook’s new web sign-in platform has officially launched today. Facebook users will now be able to log in to a number of sites (including Digg) via their Facebook identity. Data will be swapped between Facebook and other services.
Mon 1 Dec 2008
Yahoo is hoping to steal a lead on rival Google in the nascent mobile search and advertising markets, having lost the battle for dominance in the desktop computer search market, and is spearheading its European efforts in Britain.
Mon 1 Dec 2008
The American military is planning to build robot soldiers that will not be able to commit war crimes like their human comrades in arms. The US Army and Navy have both hired experts in the ethics of building machines to prevent the creation of an amoral Terminator-style killing machine that murders indiscriminately.
Mon 1 Dec 2008
Scientists have halted the advance of heart disease in mice - and even reversed some of its effects. A US specialist said that, with trials under way in other animals, human tests may be only a few years away.
Mon 1 Dec 2008
There has never been a more important time to invest in green technologies, yet many of us believe these efforts are doomed to failure. What nonsense, according to The Guardian’s Chris Goodall
Mon 1 Dec 2008
Launched in Groton, Conn., in January 1969, for years NR-1 was a secret submersible built to dive so deep it had wheels for moving along the ocean floor. Because of its nuclear reactor, its dwell time was not limited by batteries like other submersibles. But it was not fast, managing a little more than 3 knots submerged.
Mon 1 Dec 2008
The Irish government has announced radical plans to introduce more than 250,000 electric cars onto the nation’s roads by 2020, a staggering ten percent of the total vehicles in the country.
Mon 1 Dec 2008
The world’s largest physics experiment has seen a series of setbacks since September, but CERN is determined that ‘the LHC will run next year.’