[VIDEO] Bill Gates Shows Off Microsoft Surface Touch Table

Billy Gates was on the Today Show this morning showing off his fancy new table. Want to see it in action rather than just in photos? Check the video for all sorts of goodness of it being used for all sorts of applications, such as playing with photos, wirelessly pulling photos off a camera, and ordering and paying for food using credit cards.






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The Lighthouse Skyscraper: 4000 Solar Panels, 3 Huge Wind Turbines [Photos]

The Lighthouse is another innovative green skyscraper to be constructed in Dubai. For energy generation, it will have three enormous 225 kilowatt wind turbines (29 meters in diameter), and 4000 photovoltaic panels on the south facing façade.






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What EVERY workplace is missing.

The coolest thing I've seen in a long time.



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Inflation, Dow 13K and the Second Great Depression

This article points out what today’s younger generation has already long known: Simply surviving in this hyper competitive world is harder than ever, to say nothing of getting ahead.



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Breaking: Digg Riot in Full Effect Over Pulled HD-DVD Key Story

The power of Web 2.0 is in full effect over at Digg, where users are revolting over Digg's decision to pull a story (that netted over 15,000 diggs) and reportedly boot a user for posting the HD-DVD AACS Processing Key number, which would allow someone to crack the copy protection on an HD-DVD. The front page of Digg consists entirely of stories flaunting the number or criticizing Digg for its actions. We're not going to post the number, obviously, but there's a screencap of the ensuing chaos after the jump.