March 31, 2004, started early for the four men and the convoy they were escorting. Their differences set aside for the time being, the men hopped into their Pajeros and pulled out, heading to the heart of Falluja.
Members of an Australian TV comedy show, one of them dressed as Osama bin Laden, drove through two security checkpoints Thursday before being stopped near the Sydney hotel where U.S. President George W. Bush is staying.
The once-trendy "real-time strategy" (RTS) genre -- popularized in the late '90s with games such as "Blizzard's Starcraft" and Electronic Arts' "Command and Conquer" -- is poised for its long-overdue comeback.
Business 2.0: Power playupdated: Mon Mar 19 2007 11:01:00
The green economy is booming, but you don't have to build a solar power station to get a piece of the action. There's literally a land rush on as renewable-energy companies look to secure locations for wind farms and solar arrays. If you move fast, you may be able to buy and flip the rights to the downtown rooftops and rural ridges that renewable-energy developers regard as prime real estate. There are two plays in this game, wind and solar, and each has its own rules.
Just thinking about likely near-term innovations in computing is exciting, but slowly a longer-term vision is coming into focus.
A note from Erick Schonfeld: After six years of writing Future Boy, I'm handing the reins to my colleague Chris Taylor to focus on features for the magazine and my B2Day blog, which you can also subscribe to by e-mail or RSS. Taylor shares my interest in the Internet and new media, but he's also interested in other boundaries of technology, like space, the subject of his first Future Boy column.
A computer programmer found out his girlfriend was having an affair when his pet parrot kept repeating her lover's name, British media reported Tuesday.
Several witnesses who had brief interactions with Robert Blake on the night his wife was slain testified Thursday at the actor's murder trial that his behavior seemed normal.
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