Forget outsourcing. The new source of cheap labor is everyday people using their spare cycles to create content, solve problems, even do R&D. By Jeff Howe from Wired magazine. Plus: Look Who's Crowdsourcing
The video-game version of Dan Brown's conspiracy-riddled cash cow is filled with puzzles. But anyone with half a brain will find them embarrassingly facile. By Chris Kohler.
Hot for a Harley? Craving a Vespa? The siren song of sun-drenched freedom lures legions of riders into showrooms and onto the open road. From Forbes.com.
If we've reached the nadir of the American Empire, nobody seems overly concerned about it. Does anybody out there have a conscience anymore? Commentary by Tony Long.
Dozens of concerned citizens raise a ruckus outside the San Francisco switching center that houses internet-monitoring equipment allegedly used by the NSA.
Honda researchers develop a "brain-machine interface" that links an MRI machine's output to a robotic hand, allowing a human to "think" a fist into existence.
Pink piglets, fluffy kittens -- it's a subjective matter, so you decide. Plus: Cloned mules get ready to race.... Bird flu spreads from human to human but luckily doesn't mutate. In Bodyhack.
ClickDragType is a game with simple instructions and brain-boggling challenges. Plus: Gorgeous silhouette animation is about war or something. In Table of Malcontents.
Candidates put alternative fuels at the center of the political debate. Plus: A Bluetooth security system requires the owner's mobile phone for the car to start. In Autopia.
A satirical short based on a violent video game ends up playing in Congress as proof that Muslim militants use the internet as a recruiting tool. But its creator says the movie was anything but political.
