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I'm going to be speaking on Monday, February 20th, at the meeting of the British Columbia Sustainable Energy Association, starting at 7:00 pm. My presentation will focus on the North American electric grid—where it came from, how it works today, and how it affects what we can and can't do ...

"Encrypt Facebook is a Chrome extension that would prevent snooping on the discussions,status updates in Facebook groups by storing it them in an encrypted format on Facebook's database instead of normal text and also it would convert encrypted format back into normal text whenever that particul ...

Justine Larbalestier, a very good novelist with very bad RSI, has written a great post called "Why I Cannot Write a Novel With Voice Recognition Software." In it, she explains why machine-based speech-to-text software isn't sufficient for fiction. I think that if I absolutely lost the use of my ...

Gever Tulley, co-founder of the Brightworks K-12 school, says: The whine and growl of high-performance electric motors, the smell of ionized air, the squeal of rubber on pavement, the roar of the crowd and the thrill of the checkered flag -- this is the inaugural Grand Prix de la Mayonnaise! Ima ...

Canadian MP Vic Toews is pushing bill C-30, a domestic spying bill that requires ISPs to log your online activity and give it to police without a warrant. He says that if you don't support this, you "stand with child pornographers." Canadians are giving MP Toews what he wants: on Twitter, Canadi ...

Online-review service Yelp set a price range of $12 to $14 a share for a March initial public offering that would value the company at up to $838.6 million.

The web giant and other ad companies bypassed privacy settings in Apple's Safari browser on mobile devices and computers—tracking the online habits of people who intended for that kind of monitoring to be blocked.

Philip Falcone has hired lawyers to map out a strategy to overcome a regulator's decision blocking the launch of wireless network start-up LightSquared.

The first arrests in connection with Olympus's accounting scandal indicate that investigators are looking not only at company executives, but also at intermediaries who allegedly helped hide investment losses.

The share of U.S. workers in science and engineering fell in the last decade for the first time since 1950.

Previewing search results pages before clicking on them is now available through Google on Android and iOS.

Thousands of Gmail accounts wiped last week have now been fully restored.

Employees under 25 are sending company data over webmail to bypass restrictions placed on their work email.

Here's our look at the phones and tablets that have been unveiled during the first half of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Over 30 per cent of Brits fell victim to viruses at the end of 2011, despite having security software.

You know what you'll be doing in 2011? Everything that you've ever wanted, that's what, 'cause the world as we know will unquestionably end in 2012. Amazingly enough, one of those bucket list items that you'll be able to achieve is to change the channel on your tele without ever slipping a batte ...

Ready for yet another way to watch TV? Sezmi has just gone on the air in Los Angeles, offering its unique blend of premium OTA and internet delivered video to a few limited trial users. $5 a month brings whatever local networks you can pull in, basic IPTV (YouTube, OnNetworks, podcasts) and inte ...

Good news for folks who against all odds don't have a home theater Netflix streaming option yet, and yet inexplicably own an internet-connected Sony BRAVIA TV: Netflix just went live. It just takes applying the latest software update and you're in business. BRAVIA owners were promised the update ...

Sony and Panasonic are both hellbent on convincing us their forthcoming super-duper 3D television sets are the future, but before we all start selling off the children and re-mortgaging our homes, how about a little taster of what it might be like? Channel 4, the British answer to a question nob ...

Yamaha seems to be pushing its newly unveiled yAired technology pretty hard, with the second system to sport it unveiled just weeks after the first. The $399.95 MCR-140 is far from being the most stylish mini stereo we've seen -- in fact, it's probably one of the ugliest -- but it is available i ...

Reuters - Apple Inc, Google Inc and their vendors must do more to protect children using iPhones and other mobile devices to read or play games, U.S. trade regulators said, and warned they may punish software makers that secretly collect data on kids.

AP - Buying ads on Twitter is about to get easier for small businesses as the online messaging service adds a key piece to its moneymaking model.

ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Pinterest does not have a plan. Following in the footsteps of social media giants, Facebook and Twitter, Pinterest jumped on the scene without a plan of how to generate income.

ContributorNetwork - Last week, iOS app developer Arun Thampi discovered that an iPhone / iPad app called Path uploaded your whole address book to the company's servers when you ran the app. He posted screenshots and technical data that proved what happened, and explained "How to do this at home ...

Yahoo! News - Texting: It's so dangerous that the federal government wants to ban it while driving. But more than just dangerous, it's also incredibly embarrassing when you have an accident because you're doing it â or at least it was for the woman in …

The Chinese workers producing iPad 2s receive $8 per device sold, roughly 1.6% of the $499 price point of the cheapest model, according to a rep…

Continuing a long tradition of “mudslinging” puns in campaign advertisements, Rick Santorum’s latest ad features a Mitt Romney look…

Will Jessica Biel wear an engagement ring at the Oscars? Who will win The Bachelor? Is designer Prabal Gurung destined to be named “Best in S…

Engineers vs. ad operations. Product vs. public relations. Often, the “geeks” of the office operate differently than other departme…

Hulu Plus became available as an option for the Wii on Thursday, making the service available on all three major gaming console platforms. Wii u…

As we heard last year, Flickr and Hunch co-founder Caterina Fake was in the process of launching a new startup, with $2 million in funding from a number of high-profile investors, including True Ventures, Founder Collective, SV Angel, Keith Rabois, James Joaquin and Shoshana Berger. Today, Fake ...

A reader of Geekwire has sent in what he claims is a shot of Google Drive, which apparently has activated early for him. It's entirely possible that the shot is fake — Google's stark interface isn't exactly difficult to recreate. There are no obvious red flags we can see, though, and it ji ...

New York City seed investors are growing up, and raising bigger funds. IA Ventures just raised $105 million and ff Venture Capital closed its second $27 million fund last November (which I am reporting here for the first time). I asked ff VC's John Frankel and David Teten to come into the TCTV s ...

There's a referral traffic goldmine on Facebook, and today 13 more news outlets are staking their claim. The Daily Show, MSNBC, Buzzfeed, and The Huffington Post are launching Facebook Open Graph reader and video watching apps today or soon, Facebook just announced. By automatically publishi ...

At the Goldman Sachs Internet and Technology Conference in San Francisco Thursday, Groupon Founder and CEO Andrew Mason took to the stage to talk about the daily deal behemoth's newly-minted position as a public company, its roller coaster ride both leading up to and since its IPO, as well as pl ...

Mike Smith posted his fourth shutout of the season after getting into first-period altercation with Anze Kopitar, Radim Vrbata tied a career high with his 27th goal, and the Phoenix Coyotes beat the Los Angeles Kings 1-0 on Thursday night.

Jamie Katuna scored 21 points and Rheina Ale added 17 points and six rebounds as San Francisco upset No. 23 BYU 71-64 on Thursday night.

North Carolina State started losing its key players to fouls. Not long after that, the Wolfpack lost their huge lead — and the game, too.

Thai police said Friday they are searching for two more suspects in a botched terror plot against Israeli diplomats that has been blamed on Iran.

Police in Nepal say a man crushed his three daughters to death with stones while they slept in a remote mountain village.

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: Demand Media Beats Expectations Slightly in Q4 Report; Buying Back More Stock; CEO: “Turbulent Year”  —  Demand Media, which has suffered from stock weakness and worries about its traffic and costs, beat Wall Street expectations in its four ...

Andrew Tarantola / Gizmodo: Netflix Is Bringing DVD-Only Rentals Back  —  Since the whole Qwikster debacle, Netflix has tried to distance itself from DVD rentals in favor of its streaming service.  But red envelopes will soon be popping through mail slots again now that Net ...

Mark Hachman / PC Magazine: Nevada Approves Rules for Self-Driving Cars  —  In a statement, the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles said that its Legislative Commission today approved regulations allowing for the operation of self-driving vehicles on the state's roadways.  ...

Jack Purcher / Patently Apple: Google Patent Reveals Future Unlock Features for Android Devices  —  Back in October 2011 we reported that Apple's “Slide to Unlock” patent stirred up a hornet's nest in Taiwan and we now see that Apple has filed another patent infringe ...

Wall Street Journal: Google's iPhone Tracking  —  Web Giant, Others Bypassed Apple Browser Settings for Guarding Privacy  —  Google Inc. and other advertising companies have been bypassing the privacy settings of millions of people using Apple Inc.'s Web browser ...

An anonymous reader writes "The idea is simple--load up a microchip with a whole pharmacy of drugs that are dispensed as needed automatically. The devil has been in the details, since mistakes could kill the patient if, say, a leak developed dumping dangerous cocktails into the bloodstream. Th ...

Phurge pointed out a story about a man with a fleet of remote control toys and a lot of patience. "Excavating a basement using professional machinery is nothing new but doing it with radio controlled (RC) scaled models is something unheard of. Welcome to the little big world of Joe, from Saska ...

MrSeb writes "Two doctors at Penn State University have developed Caffeine Zone, a free iOS app that tells you the perfect time to take a coffee break to maintain an optimal amount of caffeine in your blood — and, perhaps more importantly, it also tells you when to stop drinking tea and ...

First time accepted submitter chadenright writes "A university study asserts that the problems caused by the gas extraction process known as hydraulic fracturing, or 'fracking,' arise because drilling operations aren't doing it right. The process itself isn't to blame, according to the study, ...

halfEvilTech writes "A North Carolina mom is irate after her four-year-old daughter returned home late last month with an uneaten lunch the mother had packed for the girl earlier that day. But she wasn't mad because the daughter decided to go on a hunger strike. Instead, the reason the daughte ...