Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, expected to launch sometime this run around the sun, splits the existing factions of the epic real-time strategy series into loyalist and rebel groups. Today, publisher Stardock released the first screens of the intergalactic [...]
North Carolina Launches First Commercial ‘Super Wi-Fi’ Network
Hey look, North Carolinians, it's a bird… It's a plane … no, it's the Super WI-Fi! Or, if you want get all technical about it, it's actually the world's first commercial TV White Space (TVWS) network, but Super Wi-Fi, as [...]
First White House Chief Technology Officer, Aneesh Chopra, steps down
He was appointed with a fair bit of fanfare as the United States’ first Chief Technology back in May of 2009, but it looks like Aneesh Chopra has decided that it’s time to make room for the nation’s second CTO. [...]
Deadlight first details: The meaning of 1986
1986 marked a legendary era in humanity’s astronomical focus. Russia launched the Mir space station, Halley’s Comet lit up Earth’s February skies, the Antarctic ozone hole came under intense scrutiny, and America’s Challenger space shuttle exploded in a fiery cloud [...]
Google Offers expands to five new locales, hipsters in Portland nonchalantly recall being first
Despite Mountain View’s efforts to the contrary, neither Google Wallet nor Offers, have yet to set the payment sector alight. That doesn’t mean the search giant’s throwing in the towel, as it vehemently expands the latter into five additional cities [...]
UK Greenlights first marine-energy park in the heart of Brunel-country
The West Country is home to some of the finest engineering anywhere in the UK, thanks to the region’s historical patronage of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. That reputation will continue thanks to the Department of Energy and Climate Change naming it [...]
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