Is Vancouver the next global hub for green tech? Andrea Reimer weighs in

Survey: information security's big, gaping hole remains wide open

Companies' administrators, privileged users, and developers are entrusted, in a very informal way, to do the right thing with sensitive data. Read the full story

Time to ban all tobacco ads, for the kids?

The group estimates $15 billion is spent on tobacco marketing each year, and ads are linked to one-third of the smoking done by teenagers. Read the full story

Students design inflatable habitats for NASA astronauts

Three universities -- Oklahoma State, the University of Maryland and the University of Wisconsin-Madison -- have been commissioned by NASA to design and construct inflatable space habitats for astronauts. Read the full story

Is Vancouver the next global hub for green tech? Andrea Reimer weighs in

Andrea Reimer explains why Vancouver wants to be the greenest city in the world by 2020: "Everybody's racing to own the future, because if you don't own the future, the future owns you." Read the full story

China needs to spend more on pollution cleanup

China is looking toward clean tech as a boom market and necessity since the country is heavily polluted. Read the full story

Google invests in a human-powered monorail

Shweeb gets $1 million to develop this Futurama-like transportation system. by Deborah Gage Read the full story

Adobe to install Bloom boxes to power headquarters

Adobe said Tuesday that it will partially power its headquarters in San Jose with Bloom Energy fuel cell servers. by Larry Dignan Read the full story

Welcome new Thinking Tech editor John Herrman

We say goodbye to Thinking Tech editor Dan Nosowitz and hello to a new one: John Herrman. by Andrew Nusca Read the full story

Boeing solar drone will fly for five years without landing

DARPA has awarded the aerospace company an $89-million contract to build a high-altitude "pseudo-satellite." by John Herrman Read the full story

'Lab on a chip' promises screening results in minutes, not days

Would you like a diagnosis on the spot? New technology could eventually bring blood, fluid tests back to point of care. by Heather Clancy Read the full story

Discovery could lead to treatments for blindness disease

British scientists have figured out the key mechanism behind the leading cause of blindness - opening up hope for new treatment options for age-related macular degeneration. Read the full story