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A day rarely passes in this campaign without someone's taking grave offense to something.
We've all heard the warnings: addiction, isolation, a waste of time. But some 50 million people log on to online role-playing games like The Sims and Second Life—and many of them never log off. The makers of a new documentary called "Second Skin," which hits theaters in September, followed seven hard-core gamers to find out why. Victor Piñeiro, the film's producer, spoke with NEWSWEEK's Jessica Bennett:
A day rarely passes in this campaign without someone's taking grave offense to something.
We've all heard the warnings: addiction, isolation, a waste of time. But some 50 million people log on to online role-playing games like The Sims and Second Life—and many of them never log off. The makers of a new documentary called "Second Skin," which hits theaters in September, followed seven hard-core gamers to find out why. Victor Piñeiro, the film's producer, spoke with NEWSWEEK's Jessica Bennett:
Devices have become the adult equivalent of security blankets, pacifying us with familiar apps and rhythms of dialogue.
In the Wild West that is genome research, statisticians are the new sheriffs in town.
A new book explains why sniffing pastries may make you nicer.
First there was ecotourism. Then came sustainable travel and green hotels. What's in your suitcase?
Soaring gas prices and higher airfares are causing Americans to take a closer look at their rail system.
PayPal's cofounder hopes to produce a practical $30,000 all-electric car in four years.
Devices have become the adult equivalent of security blankets, pacifying us with familiar apps and rhythms of dialogue.
In the Wild West that is genome research, statisticians are the new sheriffs in town.
A new book explains why sniffing pastries may make you nicer.
First there was ecotourism. Then came sustainable travel and green hotels. What's in your suitcase?
Soaring gas prices and higher airfares are causing Americans to take a closer look at their rail system.
PayPal's cofounder hopes to produce a practical $30,000 all-electric car in four years.
Why Apple's latest isn't winning everyone over
Microblogging is huge, but should anyone care?
Can anything save Detroit's automakers?
Can anything save Detroit's automakers?
It's almost a point of pride with climatologists. Whenever someplace is hit with a heat wave, drought, killer storm or other extreme weather, scientists trip over themselves to absolve global warming. No particular weather event, goes the mantra, can be blamed on something so general. Extreme weather occurred before humans began loading up the atmosphere with heat-trapping greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. So this storm or that heat wave could be the result of the same natural forces that prevailed 100 years ago—random movements of air masses, unlucky confluences of high- and low-pressure systems—rather than global warming.
With gas above $4 a gallon, hybrid cars are hotter than a laptop battery. But is gas-electric propulsion the future of personal transportation? It's definitely on the fast track. Federal forecasters predict hybrid sales could approach 2 million vehicles by 2013, accounting for 11 percent of the total U.S. auto market, up from 2.5 percent today. By then, we'll have 89 hybrid models from which to choose (including the hot little Honda pictured), up from 16 today.
When an executive wants to sound humane during a public address to the staff, he or she will trot out the well-worn phrase, "Our most valuable assets leave the building at the end of the day." Clichés are generally true, but this one may not be, thanks to the growth of user-generated content on the Internet. Whether they're creating content for sites like YouTube and Wikipedia, viewer-submitted news services like CNN's iReport or videogames like Spore and LittleBigPlanet, today's most valuable employees will most likely never set foot inside the building—or collect a paycheck. They may be teenagers posting videos of themselves dancing like Soulja Boy, programmers messing around with Twitter's tools to create cool new applications or aspiring game developers who want to create the next big thing. But what they all have in common is a somewhat surprising willingness to work for little more than peer recognition and a long shot at 15 seconds of fame.
It's almost a point of pride with climatologists. Whenever someplace is hit with a heat wave, drought, killer storm or other extreme weather, scientists trip over themselves to absolve global warming. No particular weather event, goes the mantra, can be blamed on something so general. Extreme weather occurred before humans began loading up the atmosphere with heat-trapping greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. So this storm or that heat wave could be the result of the same natural forces that prevailed 100 years ago—random movements of air masses, unlucky confluences of high- and low-pressure systems—rather than global warming.
With gas above $4 a gallon, hybrid cars are hotter than a laptop battery. But is gas-electric propulsion the future of personal transportation? It's definitely on the fast track. Federal forecasters predict hybrid sales could approach 2 million vehicles by 2013, accounting for 11 percent of the total U.S. auto market, up from 2.5 percent today. By then, we'll have 89 hybrid models from which to choose (including the hot little Honda pictured), up from 16 today.
When an executive wants to sound humane during a public address to the staff, he or she will trot out the well-worn phrase, "Our most valuable assets leave the building at the end of the day." Clichés are generally true, but this one may not be, thanks to the growth of user-generated content on the Internet. Whether they're creating content for sites like YouTube and Wikipedia, viewer-submitted news services like CNN's iReport or videogames like Spore and LittleBigPlanet, today's most valuable employees will most likely never set foot inside the building—or collect a paycheck. They may be teenagers posting videos of themselves dancing like Soulja Boy, programmers messing around with Twitter's tools to create cool new applications or aspiring game developers who want to create the next big thing. But what they all have in common is a somewhat surprising willingness to work for little more than peer recognition and a long shot at 15 seconds of fame.
Bill Gates looks back at the road he and Microsoft have traveled, and at what's ahead for his foundation.
That photo of 11 weirdos in '70s clothes you may have seen on the Internet really is the original Microsoft team, snapped Dec. 7, 1978, on the eve of the company's move from Albuquerque, N.M., to Seattle. Almost 30 years later, a few weeks before Bill Gates's departure from Microsoft, the group (looking better) reconvened.
The icon of the tech world will focus on philanthropy as the company he founded faces turbulent seas.
New GPS-powered features could help reposition a gizmo that has historically appealed to the young and the reckless.
Proponents say they replenish the ecosystem. Some scientists aren't so sure.
Bill Gates looks back at the road he and Microsoft have traveled, and at what's ahead for his foundation.
That photo of 11 weirdos in '70s clothes you may have seen on the Internet really is the original Microsoft team, snapped Dec. 7, 1978, on the eve of the company's move from Albuquerque, N.M., to Seattle. Almost 30 years later, a few weeks before Bill Gates's departure from Microsoft, the group (looking better) reconvened.
The icon of the tech world will focus on philanthropy as the company he founded faces turbulent seas.
New GPS-powered features could help reposition a gizmo that has historically appealed to the young and the reckless.
Proponents say they replenish the ecosystem. Some scientists aren't so sure.
The Associated Press' attempt to control bloggers has resulted in a big (sort of) mea culpa.
A spirited debate brought out opposing views--and shared goals.
What we'll be driving in five years.
The Associated Press' attempt to control bloggers has resulted in a big (sort of) mea culpa.
