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Newly declared Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson had more visitors to his Web site than any of the other candidates according to…
Google and the X Prize Foundation announced today the Google Lunar X Prize, a contest for private companies to land a privately funded robotic rover on the moon.
It's hard to have sympathy for a dirty, exploitative medium when the producers of it cry foul over piracy – after all dirty is as dirty does, and karma can be your friend or your enemy. But at the same time, copyrights are copyrights and are intended to protect the truly artful from thieves as much as they protect the scummy.
If these products come to your local car dealerships, they’ll need to have a better name than “sustainable transportation solutions.” But by issuing a $10 million request for proposals (RFP), Google intends to give the products an improved chance of making it that far.
Being outside the US I wasn’t able to use Amazon’s Mechanical Turk program so far – they required me to provide a US bank account to start developing with their API. At least that was the case in the beginning; perhaps there were ways to still get into the system outside the US as Requester before.
Ok, it’s been a while since I’ve disagreed with CNET’s Elinor Mills–something that rarely happens, as she’s a fantastic journalist–but here goes.
