Earth Hour is a sort of open-source movement against global warming. On Saturday, March 28, at 8:30 p.m. in each time zone, millions of people in thousands of cities are expected to turn off the lights for one hour to raise people’s consciousness about the link between global warming and energy...

When Facebook signed up its 100 millionth member last August, its employees spread out in two parks in Palo Alto, Calif., for a huge barbecue. Sometime this week, this 5-year-old start-up, born in a dorm room at Harvard, expects to register its 200 millionth user. That staggering growth rate–doubling...

AT&T exec: ISP will never terminate service on RIAA's word Updated at 5:05 p.m. PDT to include explanation of RIAA’s graduated response, quotes from RIAA, as well as information about how some ISPs had already implemented their own type of graduated response. Jim Cicconi, a senior executive...

Facebook, Google, and the data design disaster These days, in this world of IKEA and Target and “Project Runway,” we like to think we know about design. We also like to think that the biggest names in Silicon Valley know what they’re doing design-wise. Yet recently, we saw two of the...

Nikon CoolPix S220 Features: Camera resolution: 10Mp LCD screen size: 2.5″ Optical zoom: 3x Supported memory media: SD Pros: Ultra-stylish design, small and light, good feature set for asking price Cons: Patchy flash, image quality is merely adequate The final word: The Nikon CoolPix S220 is a...