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To do this weekend: Maker Faire BayArea

Maker Faire Bay Area is this weekend, in San Mateo, California! Pesco, Mark and I will all be there, and I'm sure many of you reading Boing Boing will be, too. Mark has been posting some great behind-the-scenes snapshots on his Instagram.

Amtrak boosts WiFi on select trains, more upgrades coming this summer

There are plenty of wonderful things about train travel: the leg room, the scenery, the lack of security pat-downs. The WiFi, on the other hand, has long been the slowest thing about Amtrak.

Dropping Jaws (And Slowpokes) on Cervelo's $10,000 Racing Bike

As one of just a few hundred limited-edition bikes produced by Cerv?lo's Project California division, the RCA is a neatly packaged compendium of its creator's two-decades-deep body of engineering knowledge.

America's Cup team calls for changes to make regatta safer

ALAMEDA, California (Reuters) - The head of the Italian sailing team in the America's Cup called on Friday for lowering limits on wind speeds and other safety measures to make the regatta less dangerous following a deadly accident last week.

Password Strength Testers Work For Important Accounts

msm1267 writes "Many popular online services have started to deploy password strength meters, visual gauges that are often color-coded and indicate whether the password you've chosen is weak or strong based on the website's policy.

Photo Of The Day: A Harvest Moonrise Over Mono Lake, California

[TM] Pacheco, Flickr
Just past the eastern terminus of the Tioga Pass, the entryway to Yosemite National Park, is the quietly beautiful Mono Lake.

Tim Cook's pitch for a corporate tax holiday suits Washington just fine Heidi Moore

Politicians will be happy to hear the Apple CEO talk about a corporate tax holiday, so long as some money goes to government, too

One of the strangely charming aspects of the CEO class in America (and one they share with most of Congress) is their ability to tune out the actually pressing i

Robot Alarm Clock Sings and Dances by Your Bedside

If you've tried every alarm clock app and gadget under the sun but waking up on time still proves difficult, a beside companion that dances and talks might do the trick.

Amtrak Upgrades Wi-Fi

New submitter WillgasM writes "A bit of good news for American travelers, according to the New York Times: 'After years of criticism of the wireless service on its trains, Amtrak announced on Thursday that it had upgraded its cellular-based Wi-Fi using broadband technologies that will improve the sp

Tesoro wins antitrust OK to buy California BP refinery

WASHINGTON/HOUSTON (Reuters) - Refiner Tesoro Corp. has received formal approval from antitrust regulators in Washington and Sacramento on Friday to buy BP Plc's refinery and other assets in southern California for more than $2 billion.