Joe Petviashvili

Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are trading in their PowerPoint decks for picket signs after negotiations broke down between the Entrepreneurs Guild of America West and the National Venture Capital Association.

“The first filter is people you’ve subscribed to, so presumably you’re somewhat interested in what they have to say. The second filter takes a look at how many people are commenting or bookmarking the items to determine if it should more...

New derivation of equations governing the greenhouse effect reveals "runaway warming" impossible Miklós Zágoni isn't just a physicist and environmental researcher. He is also a global warming activist and Hungary's most outspoken supporter of the Kyoto Protocol. Or was. That more...

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Prosecutors are moving ahead with a case against one of two 93-year-old men picked up during undercover prostitution stings.

Describing Web 2.0 as the "latest fashion", Mr Nielsen said many sites paying attention to it were neglecting some of the principles of good design and usability established over the last decade. Good practices include making a site easy to more...

Solving an original and addictive number puzzle gives you karma to spend.

For decades, conventional wisdom has held that daylight-saving time, which begins March 9, reduces energy use. But a unique situation in Indiana provides evidence challenging that view: Springing forward may actually waste energy.

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shambolic launch of the £4.3billion facility is 'a national humiliation'. Some said they were "ashamed to be British" after fights broke out among passengers as BA announced it was cutting a fifth of its flights.

“The Iraqi pilot continued, "When you started talking about the attitude indicator, I didn't realize you meant the artificial horizon, then when you failed it, I suddenly realized. And then I realized what killed the Mi-17 crew. I *knew*.”

cutting of five high speed Internet Submarine communications cables in the Mediterranean Sea and Middle East over a period of 12 days

Google's following a truly insane strategy here: we have Google Search, which is one size fits all, and we have Google News, which is customized for you personally, and we have absolutely nothing in between.

by refocusing our priorities back on the contemplation of lethal threats—invisible nightmarish forces plotting to destroy us in a number of horrific ways. It is only through the vigilance and determination of every patriot that we can maintain the sense more...

The fight is long over here for authority over the security services, the oil business, mass media and pretty much all the levers of government. Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin, notwithstanding some recent anti-government protests, has won those wars, hands down, and more...