There’s a park opposite the hotel where I’ve been staying in Athens. When I was here in August it had become an impromptu refugee camp. Some 500 Afghans were living in tents or sleeping under the ...

Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers hardware, research and development, start-ups and the tech industry overseas. That distinction belongs to the Pedion, an ill-fated ...

Say "Hello" to the MacBook Air's godfather, the Mitsubishi Pedion. By barely a hair's breadth, this 0.72"-thick notebook makes a fib out of Apple's claim that the 0.76" MacBook Air is the thinnest.

SpY, “EARTH DIVIDED,” on view at Plásmata: Bodies, Dreams, and Data, a digital art exhibition at Pedion tou Areos Park in Athens (© Pinelopi Gerasimou) In a series of curated journeys unfolding ...

We love thin things, and so does Apple. It markets its MacBook Air as the thinnest notebook, which turns out to be true only if you count recently-released models. And even those oldies which aren't ...

In the rundown Pedion Areos Park, older men walk slowly by young asylum seekers before agreeing on a price for sex. Mahmoud looks out over Athens. The young Afghan asylum seeker hoped to find a better ...

Steve Jobs unveiled the MacBook "Air" yesterday, Apple's ultra-thin and light notebook computer that looks like something you'd put into an interoffice envelope. That is, if it didn't cost $1800 you ...