By Tim Conneally | Published August 26, 2010, 3:08 PM

The Sensable City lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is developing a solar-powered robot whose sole purpose is to clean up oil spilled into the water.

MIT lab creates giant robotic tadpoles for oil spill cleanup | Clean & Green News – Betanews

By Chris Morran on August 27, 2010 1:15 PM 0 views

When security workers at a Bangkok airport thought they’d spotted a real cat hidden among the plush toys of a passenger’s suitcase, they were right… in a big way. That feline was more than your garden variety house cat; it was a 2-month-old tiger cub.

Airport Security Discovers Real Tiger Cub Among Toy Tiger Dolls In Suitcase – The Consumerist

Written by Wayne Madsen

Friday, 21 May 2010 13:52

The Obama administration, already charged with providing political cover for BP in the Gulf of Mexico mega-oil disaster, is also charged with allowing BP to renege on agreements between the firm, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the state of Indiana to prevent pollution of Lake Michigan from the firm’s Whiting, Indiana refinery near Hammond

BP Gets Pass From Obama Administration To Potentially Pollute Lake Michigan | Oil Price.com

Make no mistake about it: If you were to parse through my email and try and figure out what the single most frequently asked question is these days, it’s pretty obvious. “What can you tell me about Windows 8?” And to date, there hasn’t been much to say. As a dedicated Windows watcher, I am of course deeply interested in what Microsoft is doing, and if you’ve been following along with my various other writings, you already know what the Windows 8 release schedule looks like. But ask about the features and technologies that Microsoft planned to include in Windows 8? For the most part, I didn’t have a clue.

Paul Thurrott’s SuperSite for Windows: Windows 8: A First Peek

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Would You Like Fries With Your Lion Burger?

By Chris Morran on June 24, 2010 2:15 PM

By now, you’ve probably heard about the small Mesa, Arizona, restaurant that caused an up-roar this week by making a limited-time addition to its menu — Lion Burgers. If you hadn’t heard about it, well now you have. But putting any judgment aside for the moment, one has to ask — Where in the world do you get lion meat from?

Would You Like Fries With Your Lion Burger? – The Consumerist

BP Gulf-Sized Spilling Occurs In Nigeria Annually, But Nobody Cares

By Ben Popken on June 15, 2010 1:22 PM

 

For America, the BP spill in the Gulf is a “tragedy that never should have happened,” requiring, “the largest environmental response in this country’s history. In Nigeria, they just call it “Thursday.”

BP Gulf-Sized Spilling Occurs In Nigeria Annually, But Nobody Cares – The Consumerist

Security Experts Claim iPad Vulnerable To New Attacks

By Marc Perton on June 14, 2010 2:29 PM

Goatse Security, the white-hat hackers that exposed the iPad’s problems keeping email addresses under wraps, is back with a warning about additional risks to owners of the tablet. And they’re also more than a little peeved that AT&T called them “malicious” in yesterday’s apology to customers. “When we disclosed this, we did it as a service to our nation. We love America and the idea of the Russians or Chinese being able to subvert American infrastructure is a nightmare,” Goatse’s Escher Auernheimer said.

Security Experts Claim iPad Vulnerable To New Attacks – The Consumerist

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