A new energy concept called a solar tower could generate enough electricity for 200,000 homes. Looking like a giant smokestack, it would release no noxious fumes ? just sun-heated air. Demonstrated more than 20 years ago, the basic design calls for solar collectors to warm the air near Earth’s surface and then channel it up the tall central tower.

On a sunny day, the air at the top of the tower would be 70 degrees Fahrenheit (20 degrees Celsius), whereas the air in the greenhouse could reach 160 degrees Fahrenheit (70 degrees Celsius). As this hot air escapes up the tower at…

Four never before seen screenshots of the iPhone’s upcoming App Store.

The price on Monkey Ball (an awesome looking game) is $9.99, so it's safe to say that all games will be around that price. Furthermore, the majority of applications will be free (such as eBay, TypePad).

Apple released a pre-release version of iTunes 7.7 for developers tonight. In the Read Me of the iTunes installer is a hint at a previously unannounced iPhone/iPod Touch application:Use iTunes 7.7 to sync music, video, and more with iPhone 3G, and download applications from the iTunes Store exclusi…

Use iTunes 7.7 to sync music, video, and more with iPhone 3G, and download applications from the iTunes Store exclusively designed for iPhone and iPod touch with software version 2.0 or later. Also use the new Remote application for iPhone or iPod…

They’re in our computers, reading our files. The Chinese government, that is, according to two U.S. Congressmen who recently accused Beijing of sending hackers to ferret out secret documents stored on Congressional computers. The Chinese deny any involvement, but if they were lying, would we be able to prove it?

Lewis said there are at least a half dozen other governments, besides China's, that have highly sophisticated hacker capabilities. This includes the United States. In fact, he said, attacks are common enough that they're almost not…

Mozilla on Tuesday released Firefox 3, a major update to its popular open source Web browser that’s being billed as ‘two to three times faster’ than its predecessor.

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The $1.2 billion market size falls under Munsters Agrressive Case? scenario in which there are 85 million iPhone and iPod Touch users through the end of next year, 95 percent of whom would need to actively use the store. Still, given that Apple has the device available in six countries right now but will have it in some 70 countries by next year

More interesting is Apple’s position on the store. Jobs said earlier this year that the company never intended to make money off of the App Store, as Digital Daily reminds us. Yet, even under Munster’s “Conservative…

Bikinis and other sexy stimuli make men more prone to seek immediate gratification. Its not that they’re distracted, rather showed improved cognition and creativity. Very interesting impacts.

A sense of personal wealth depends largely on what we perceive to be the society standard. The researchers manipulated this perception to make male subjects feel relatively rich or relatively poor. When a questionnaire suggested the average income…

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Apple’s 24-hour flagship 5th Avenue retail store in Manhattan is in the process of shutting down for the night. Apple’s retail page reflects the temporary shutdown:Please note we will be temporarily closed Thursday, May 29 at 3:00 p.m. and will reopen Friday, May 30 at 9:00 a.m. During this time…

Please note we will be temporarily closed Thursday, May 29 at 3:00 p.m. and will reopen Friday, May 30 at 9:00 a.m. During this time, please visit one of our other two Manhattan locations.

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Samsung has introduced a 256GB solid-state drive that promises to kickstart the industry with twice the storage and twice the speed of earlier disks while also costing less to manufacture than past models — and having a chance of landing in future Apple notebooks.Simply called the 256GB FlashSSD, the Serial ATA drive reads in-order data at 200MB/s

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Article about a company who refuses to accept that they are at fault for poor security and the fallout when an employee brings it to the attention of the IT security community.

Benson's May 8 posting was prompted by news that managers had changed the password for employees to access the store server. Inexplicably, it was set to blank. When Benson first began working for TJX, his password was the same as his user…

A new beta of Apple’s iPhone Software v2.0 Update released privately to a select group of enterprise partners this week adds a few new preferences and the beginnings of geo-tagging support for the handset’s Camera app.

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Facebook is all about openness and data portability, as long as that doesnt involve openness or portability of data, it seems.

I think it’s silly to disagree with this move. Facebook is a business. Google is a business. You don’t see Google opening up their search engine or PPC data. You can’t get backlink information, you can’t…