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The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) may hamper the fight against climate change by inhibiting the diffusion of green technology, according to the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII). Behind closed doors, the European Union, United States, Japan and other trade partners are negotiating an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. ACTA will contain new international norms for [...]

Beagle: On the future of species The voyage of the HMS Beagle has been described as the most important journey ever made. During his travels, Charles Darwin gathered information and knowledge that would drastically change the way we look at the world. With his book “On the Origin of Species” (1859) Darwin would be the [...]

An improvement of the linkage between the economical and the environmental sphere might contribute to a resolution of our current environmental crisis. Potentially, the introduction of the ECO currency can contribute to such a linkage, yet, further study is needed on the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of the ECO concept. The ECO–currency project explores [...]

Ushahidi (“testimony” in Swahili), is a location-based service that allows people to tell a central aggregator, essentially, where they are and what they’re doing. Any few false data points are overwhelmed by the aggregate picture, and we get a user-created map of where earthquake victims are located, where terrorists are hiding, where there are food [...]

Amsterdam, 5 februari 2009 – De grootste privacyschenders van de afgelopen jaren zijn bekendgemaakt. Op vrijdag 5 februari werden tijdens een stampvol symposium de Big Brother Awards 2009 uitgereikt aan Minister Ter Horst, de nieuwe vingerafdrukdatabank, T-Mobile en Vodafone en mobiele naaktscanners van de politie. Met deze prijzen worden elk jaar personen, bedrijven, overheden en [...]

http://twitpic.com/photos/Astro_Soichi Será que a Amazonia ainda vai estar verde no ano que vem, ou vai estar devastada, cheia de bois brancos fazendo cocô e jogando gas metanol no ar?

Survival Blue-Print Where once fire, brute force, mechanised violence and then wealth through industry and trading were dominant forms of power in the world, information manifest as digital capital is now becoming the dominant power in the 21st century. Those nations and organisations with the greatest freedom of information and means of transmitting it have [...]

This bicycle comes complete with a kinetic energy recovery system (KERS), sensors, a smart lock, and a Bluetooth connection to the rider’s iPhone. The onboard sensors monitor bike speed, distance traveled, direction, pollution levels, and proximity of friends, and the smart lock sends you a text message if someone tries to steal your bike.