In just under 200 days, I will be getting married to the girl of my dreams. For most people, this is a big enough event as is, but as a geek, I’ve been looking for ways to get my own personal touch into the wedding as much as possible. Having technology involved with your big day not only makes the planning a bit more fun for us geeks, but it can really enhance the wedding experience and save you money....

A large piece of space debris, possibly weighing several tonnes, is currently on an uncontrolled reentry phase (that’s space speak for “out of control”), and parts of it areexpected to crash down to Earthover the next few weeks. If that isn’t worrying enough, it is impossible to predict exactly where the pieces that don’t burn up in the atmosphere might land. Given the object’sorbit, the possible landing points areanywherein a band of latitudes “a little farther north than New York, Madrid and Beijing and as far south as southern Chile and Wellington, New Zealand”....

Google’s algorithmic failures can have dreadful consequences, from directing racist search termsto the White Housein Google Maps to labelingBlack people as gorillasin Google Photos. This week, the Silicon Valley giant added another algorithmic screw-up to the list: misidentifying a software engineer as a serial killer. The victim of this latest botch was Hristo Georgiev, an engineer based in Switzerland. Georgiev discovered that a Google search of his name returned a photo of him linked to a Wikipedia entry on a notorious murderer....

With the uprising and protests in Egypt, it is sometimes easy to forget about the very personal faces that are affected. In the technology sphere, we spend a lot of time focusing on Internet services (or lack thereof) and what is being done to help those that we know of. What we’re seeing lately, though, is a cry for help for the ones that we don’t know so well. Wael Ghonim is a Google employee, working as the Mid-East Marketing director....

If you’ve ever been on one of those spirals of losing yourself onWikipediathen you already know how valuable it can be as a source of overview information. However, for marketers and others, there are things that you need to know about the publicly-edited service that you might not have though of just yet. Fortunately, the team over atEloquahas put together another of its Grande Guides, this time withJimmy Wales‘ baby as the subject....