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People who buy Chrysler vehicles next year will have the option of turning their cars and trucks into wireless Internet hotspots. The wireless Internet will come as a dealer-installed option and will work over cellular telephone links. It will come with a monthly fee which has not yet been determined.

The uconnect system will link cellular telephones and personal music players to the car's onboard electronics, with the ability to control an Apple iPod with radio and steering wheel controls. The system also has navigation and real-time…

For two centuries, Teatro La Fenice has premiered some of Italy’s finest operas. Now with the help of IBM, many of the theatre’s documents from Verdi and other virtuosi have been digitized and made available on the Web?along with high-quality videos of recent performances. See how Digital Sipario, an online archive of music and memories, presents t

See how Digital Sipario, an online archive of music and memories, presents the rich history of one of Europe's grandest theatres and opens up its stage to the world.

In 1966, Baur came up with a clever way for Proctor and Gamble to stack chips uniformly rather than tossing them in a bag. He was so proud of the achievement, he wanted to go to his grave with it.

“When my dad first raised the burial idea in the 1980s, I chuckled about it,” Baur's eldest son Larry, 49, told TIME. Larry Baur quickly realized his father was serious. Family jokes circulated about the Pringles plan, but no one…

The original Spiral Island was the talk of the world: a man-made floating island constructed from 250,000 plastic bottles that could drift and relocate as needed … until it was destroyed by disaster. Now the new amazing Spiral Island is finally finished and slated to open to the public within the next few months in Laguna Makax near Isla Mujeres.

There is a variety of media available to people who want to learn more about spiral island. The Spiral Islanders site has forums, a blog, photo collections and videos related to the construction and history of the island as well as the stories and…

Physicists working on huge particle accelerators that smash electrons into each other are trying to create new light sources so focussed they can target cancers deep inside someone’s brain - tumours it’s too dangerous to treat with today’s X-ray techniques. This is the type of science that created the iPod. All this is under threat from cuts.

The young man at the back of the room got a big clap. “I'm a PhD student in solar physics. Why, in the current climate, should I and other students take the risk of continuing to do research in this area?” he'd asked the panel….

Ed Boyden, assistant professor in the MIT Media Lab and Biological Engineering, wanted to teach a class called “How to Think,” which would focus on “how to be creative, thoughtful, and powerful in a world where problems are extremely complex, targets are continuously moving, and our brains often seem like nodes of enormous networks that constantly.

The second practical note: I find it really useful to write and draw while talking with someone, composing conversation summaries on pieces of paper or pages of notepads. I often use plenty of color annotation to highlight salient points. At the…

They’ve talked about it, they’ve made prototypes and now finally here it is: a muscle-driven car that can reach speeds of up to 80 miles per hour. This modernized version of Fred Flintstone’s foot-powered vehicle can be purchased for $15,000.

The human car isn’t just about energy efficiency or the environment, it is about group activity - making driving an actively participatory experience. It is also about alternative uses for a vast global infrastructure designed and used…