On-line information and news is subject to much less scrutiny and fact checking than what is standard for the traditional print media.  This lower reliability and the merger of so called "citizen journalist" stories with official media sites can have devestating impacts on stock when critical information is either fradulent (Apple-Steve Jobs Heart Attack) or in error (United Bakruptcy from 2002 being posted as Breaking News).

A lightweight, silicon-based solar cell that can be installed on curved surfaces such as fabrics could be used for a broad range of applications. A paper online this week in Nature Materials (http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nmat2287) describes the new device, one of the most efficient flexible solar cells designed so far.

Superstruct, a massively multiplayer forecasting game is ready to launch. Organized by Palo Alto base Institute for the Future, this could change the way we think about the future. Games are becoming increasinlgy mainstream. We all play games for fun; now we will play games to change the world.

Harvard biology professor Peter Girguis and his team have created a low-cost power generator for families in Tanzania.

Since 2000 there has been an acknowledged vulnerability in the Web allowing a malicious user to embed code in a Web page that transmits "secret" commands to a Web site without the authenticated user being aware. This exploit, known as a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF), is very difficult to track because the commands are coming from the authenticated user, they are just unauthorized.