One day after a close call, the Solar Impulse 2 round-the-world airplane made a 17-hour trip from Ohio to Pennsylvania...
Solar Impulse plane flies from Ohio to Pennsylvania, sets its sights on New York
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Carbon-free cloud: Microsoft sets ambitious goals for renewable energy
REDMOND, Wash. – Microsoft is kicking up its targets for environmentally sustainable cloud computing by pledging that half of the electricity to power its data centers will come...
UK government sets up an international “Olympics of e-sports”
(credit: eGames)
So you want to get into e-sports, but you're worried that the myriad existing popular competitions can't match the grandeur and incorruptible respectability of something like the Olympic games. The UK government has a potential solution, today announcing the eGames as "an international gaming tournament where national pride is the prize."
That pride is apparently the...
Corbis + Getty: Bill Gates’ sale of Corbis Images to Chinese firm sets up distribution deal with rival
Two of the world’s leading photographic libraries, longtime rivals in the industry, are joining forces as a result of a pair of deals announced today. Seattle-based Corbis, owned by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, this morning announced the sale of Corbis Images to an affiliate of...
R2-D2 Dreamliner jet flies in from Tokyo, sets Seattle abeep-boop-beep
All Nippon Airways’ R2-D2 Dreamliner jet touched down today at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport for the first time, two and a half months after the 787 rolled out of Boeing’s Everett factory. The airliner – decorated in a blue, black, gray and white scheme modeled after the adorable Star Wars robot – is taking on several Seattle-Tokyo flights this month. The timing...