A Melbourne icon was shut down recently due to damages that were apparently too severe to bother fixing, but thankfully for the otherwise stunning Southern Star Observation Wheel, a few good men and women have their gears going about what to do next. Designer Büro North, who also dreamed up the VEIL Solar Shades, has [...]

Google quickly launched a Person Finder to help reunite people separated by this morning’s earthquake in Chile. The site has two options: I’m looking for someone and I have information about someone. If you’re trying to get information or have any information about anyone affected, it looks like a good place to check in. Google [...]

This morning’s 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Chile has left in its wake a whole lot of destruction in Chile and impending tsunamis across the Pacific. Weblog Mashable rounds up a few options for keeping up with the latest news with real-time web resources. Mashable’s Pete Cashmore suggests several real-time sources for keeping up with what’s [...]

Good luck sorting this one out, short-sighted lawmakers. An upcoming piece of major legislation in the UK, called the Digital Economy Bill, would essentially force all public wi-fi points offline by requiring impossibly high levels of copyright protection. The bill, which bears some similarity to the controversial DMCA here in the US, is ostensibly aimed [...]

Twitter appears to be on the verge of some big changes to its website if a tweet that Twitter engineer Alex Payne sent today is any indication. In fact, the new features may be so good that they could make some people re-examine their use of desktop Twitter clients, apparently. As Payne writes: If you [...]

Apple’s famous desire for total control over its operations seems to have extended to its manufacturing facilities as we’ve come across Cupertino’s Supplier Responsibility 2010 Progress Report, which details audits the American company has done of its overseas suppliers and the failures identified therein. The findings are pretty damning on the whole, with more than [...]

Anyone who has lived in New York, knows the hassle and stress of finding an apartment that fits within their budgets and has enough space to live in. New startup Naked Apartments attempts to ease the process by being a sort of Match.com for renters and landlords and apartment brokers. The site matches qualified renters [...]

Facebook’s new patent on publishing streams of user activities has many worried for online innovation. But it could be worse.

A new method of ultrafast cooling helps living cells, such as eggs, survive frozen storage better.

Twitter is reportedly set to introduce tiny text ads that come with search results. They learned it from watching you, Google.