PC or Mac? It’s the longest-running question in personal technology — along with the Mac itself, the debate turns 27 next month — and probably the most contentious one
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RACES: Armageddon to Go
Two thousand students from the Georgia Institute of Technology stormed through Atlanta one night last week, whooping up and down Peachtree Street, pushing aside troopers who tried to bar their way, and generally raising hell. At the State Capitol, the boys pulled fire hoses from their racks, adorned the sculpt head of Civil War Hero John Gordon with an ashcan
Green Energy in the U.S. Has a Surprisingly Long History
Green technology has no history — which isn’t to say that it has no past.
Monstrously Good The hero’s an ogre and the princess can be almost as gross in the delightfully fractured fairy tale Shrek
Once upon a time, an ogre named Shrek lived in a mythical but nonetheless insalubrious swamp. He was green.
Source Code: A Sci-Fi "Groundhog Day" Awash in Bombs, Paranoia and Inconsistency
The science-fiction thriller Source Code starts in a state of glorious disorientation.
Work Like It’s 1999: High-Tech Incubators
On the top floor of an ugly office building in Mountain View, Calif., a dozen entrepreneurial dreams are taking flight. Raissa Nebie, a 31-year-old former investment banker from Ivory Coast, is putting the finishing touches on Spoondate, her top-secret dating site for food lovers
Old World Tiger: How Germany Became the China of Europe
There is no particularly special technology needed to make a chainsaw.
Pushback grows against insurance industry report
They’re angry and fighting back with full force. The White House, Democrats and health care experts are blasting a new insurance industry trade report that finds that health insurance premiums for the typical American family would increase by $4,000 by 2019 under a key Senate overhaul plan
Will airports screen for body signals? Researchers hope so
The days of being able to walk through airport security checkpoints while wearing shoes and a jacket could return if an experimental program proves successful, some Department of Homeland Security officials say. The Homeland Security-funded project is Future Attribute Screening Technology, or FAST
3 win Nobel in physics for digital devices
Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for two breakthroughs that led to two major underpinnings of the digital age — fiber optics and digital photography, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said. Charles K