Motorola Moto G review: how good can a $179 smartphone be? The Verge The Moto X represented a sizable step forward for Motorola. A comfortable, fresh, customizable design married with tasteful and useful software features, it’s the polar opposite the aggressively styled and skinned Droids Motorola and Verizon have made. Now, Motorola is back with the Moto G, a budg...
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Giant prehistoric toilet unearthed BBC News A gigantic "communal latrine" created at the dawn of the dinosaurs has been unearthed in Argentina. | Thousands of fossilised poos left by rhino-like megaherbivores were found clustered together, scientists say. | The 240-million-year-old site is the "world's oldest public toilet...
Chicago's Tech Scene Faces Competition From All Sides Mashable I had been up most of the night driving through snowy, icy Illinois to keep the van warm while my mate slept in the back. We had no sleeping bags, so we were freezing. Finally, exhaustion overcame me and I pulled up into a car park. | Suddenly, a ter...
Nigeria frees 16 girls, women in 'baby factory' raid The Siasat Daily Lagos, December 04: | Nigerian police on Wednesday said they raided a home and freed 16 pregnant girls and young women allegedly being forced to have babies to be sold. | "We carried out a raid on a residence in Owerri following an intelligence repor...
Green roof meets the ground in Wave House Treehugger Three years ago the Wave House was a set of renderings by French architect Patrick Nadeau, looking like one of those paper projects that would never happen. Comments included "seriously, who is going to mow the roof?" | the planting is "primarily to ...
Southwest style breakfast hot pockets [Vegan, Gluten-Free] Treehugger I've been exploring options for hot, healthy breakfasts that are as easy as humanly possible, since I don't like to make a lot of fuss in the kitchen early in the morning but I do like something warm and comforting on chilly mornings. | Inspired by a...
Meet Raven, an old-fashioned wood-burning cookstove Treehugger When the power went out last week, I felt the temperature dropping inside my house as the hours went by. I knew that if it didn’t come on by morning, I’d have to take my kids to someone else’s house where there was an alternative source of heat...
How The Death Of The Cookie Will Only Help The Rich Get Richer Business Insider See Also | Over the past several months, we've written a fair amount about the "death of the cookie," and how internet giants like Microsoft, Google, and Apple are all working on their own means of tracking users across the internet. | But there's a ...
Flooding: Looking Beyond Jakarta Jakarta Globe By Fitrian Ardiansyah, Erik Meijaard & Jessie Wells on 7:44 pm December 4, 2013. | Category Opinion | Tags: disaster mitigation, floods, Indonesia floods | Anyone living in Jakarta is more than familiar with the huge impacts of flooding, and the need...
Hawaii's Startup Paradise Demo Day gives companies a chance to pitch investors Business Journal Stephanie Silverstein Reporter- Pacific Business News Email | Twitter | Hundreds of entrepreneurs, investors and companies that support startup businesses will gather at the Sheraton Waikiki on Wednesday for the 2013 Hawaii VC Summit and S...
Robotic sea turtle will dive to explore ship wrecks Treehugger A new tool in the quest to uncover the secrets contained in sunken shipwrecks takes its cues from an animal that inhabits that same territory. Researchers at the Tallinn University of Technology have developed a biomimetic underwater robot called U-C...
A Nuclear Deal With Iran Might Come As Soon As Next Week Business Insider Arak IR-40 Heavy Water Reactor, Iran | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Major powers and Iran are getting closer to an initial agreement to curb Iran's nuclear program, a senior U.S. officia...
More charity dollars must go to environmental causes South China Morning Post Last December, in the wake of Typhoon Bopha, Naderev Sano, the lead negotiator of the Philippine delegation at the UN climate change conference in Doha, made an emotional plea during the talks. His message was simple: no more delays, no more excuses....
Between the Covers The Hindu Invisible Giants: Changing the World One Step at a Time, Lindsay Levin | (Rupa Publications, Rs. 250) | Leadership, choices in life and the potential within everyone to make a difference… these issues are dealt with in depth by Lindsay Levin. F...
Rackspace: One Of The Worst Investments Out There Seeking Alpha I've been burned by doubting Rackspace (RAX) in the past. Turns out that the stock has been incredibly resilient. I spent a considerable amount of time trying to figure out what was causing the rise and if it was sustainable. I'll go into deeper deta...
Brown heckled over fracking Fresno Bee SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown, who championed environmental causes when he was governor before and has made global warming a focus of his administration now, has been targeted by an increasingly vocal group of activists whose animosity would once have appeared improbable. | Environmentalists frustrated with Brown's permissiveness toward hydra...
The stench of death remains even as recovery begins The Gleaner MANILA, (AP):The death toll from one of the strongest typhoons on record could exceed 6,000. | Already, the death toll has risen above 5,000 and with 1,611 persons still unaccounted for Philippine officials say it is likely to climb further, although recovery efforts are beginning to take hold. | Interior Secretary Mar Roxas said 4,919 people were ...
