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Planting seeds of sustainability on Facebook

Two Canadian university students hope to plant the seeds of sustainability on Facebook with an application that monitors power consumption and uses peer pressure and the spirit of friendly competition inherent among many gardeners to foster energy conservation.


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US court strikes down COPA, again

A U.S. appeals court has for the third time struck down a law intended to keep Web sites with sexually oriented themes away from children, with judges saying the law is a vague and overly broad attack on free speech.

| News | Government | Internet | Legal | Tech & society | 07/22/08 at 4:04 pm |

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Better law enforcement … always good for us?

If law enforcement improves, we will all be safer. Right? Well actually, maybe not.


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Rwanda genocide materials to be stored online

The University of Texas has received a US$1.2 million grant from the Bridgeway Foundation to develop a library system to preserve records of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

| News | Tech & society | 07/21/08 at 8:31 pm |

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