Google working on a face recognition app that leads to your personal info, what could possibly go wrong?



Before we all get in a huff about this, Google has been very eager to point out that the facial recognition app it’s developing will work on a strictly opt-in basis. That means if you don’t want it to scan all of Facebook, Flickr and the rest of Googl…

Vestas unveils massive 7-megawatt offshore wind turbine (video)



Building and putting any sort of offshore wind turbine into place is a fairly impressive bit of engineering, but Denmark’s Vestas is truly going the extra mile with its new V164-7.0 MW turbine. Not only does it promise to provide seven megawatts of po…

Obama says federal fleet to run on alternative fuels starting in 2015



Chances are the Secret Service won’t be ditching its signature black SUVs for these things anytime soon, but if all goes according to President Obama’s new energy plan, even the Commander in Chief’s armed guards will be rolling more eco-friendly in the…

UK radio pushes online listening



Many of the UK’s biggest radio broadcasters have joined forces to launch a system for listening to stations on the net.

World’s largest indoor photograph shows off fancy old Czech library



If you think Google’s seven-gigapixel renderings of world famous art museums are impressive, get a load of this: a guy named Jeffrey Martin just produced a record breaking panoramic photo of a reading room in Prague’s Strahov monastery library, and it…