A San Francisco-based architect and engineer duo have formed Medergy, a new corporation hoping "to demonstrate how an existing but little-used process called 'steam reformation' can detoxify contaminated and hazardous medical waste on-site." ENR. View full entry
Google has announced Google Earth for Mac OSX. Some are anxious to get a copy. Of course being pure as the driven snow I've not been using the leaked beta version but if you can find it - it is fantastic!url View full entry
From Apple:"Many architecture firms are known for concentrating on niche markets. Not Jackson & Ryan Architects. This Houston-based firm specializes in not specializing. From museums to churches, from private homes to hotels, they've built their reputation on innovation, flexibility and... View full entry
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The building blocks of today's connected world population was begun in Victorian England with the laying of submarine telegraph cables across the globe. These cables provided a direct, physical link between countries, colonies and continents forming what was, in many ways, the world's first... View full entry
"A leading defense contractor has successfully demonstrated a system that lets foot soldiers command unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, to see real-time overhead images on their handheld computers while fighting in urban battle zones." Wired. View full entry
The first Google Space, a cybercafe and test lab, opened at Heathrow Airport, London. See pictures | Read more | via Ludwig and Slashdot || Ready for more Google Rule?: London HQ | Face recognition | new tools: Firefox extension can check multiple gmail accounts from one browser window via &... View full entry
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Hakia is building the Web's first "meaning-based" search engine, one that will bring answers and meaningful results to questions on any topic. To achieve this goal, Hakia uses a proprietary semantic system instead of a conventional index. Meaning-based search will appeal to all Web searchers... View full entry
Get lost in Andrew Childs's world. It is superbad. View full entry
In NW England, "the river Mersey is now to be subjected to tests which environmentalists hope will make it the first river in Britain to generate electricity from its tides." It will use an intriguing "tidal power fence." Independent. Also: BLDGBLOG. View full entry
for all you fans of digital fabrication, mass-customization, and other numerically-controlled 'revolutions' that spawn structural unemployment, you'll be glad to hear that GM is cutting, once again, more jobs and plants from its numerically controlled operations. nytimes View full entry
BART has become the first transit system in the nation to offer wireless communication to all passengers on its trains underground-SFG | via slashdot BART's deal with the phone companies for downtown San Francisco will bring in at least $408,000 a year. As additional stations, tubes and tunnels... View full entry
"Today, in the 2000s, we are heading into a new era of ubiquity, where the 'users' of the internet will be counted in billions and where humans may become the minority as generators and receivers of traffic." smartmobs | bbc | latest on blogjects View full entry
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