Intel boasted of a power-saving technology that will put power not being used by idle processor cores to work, speeding up those cores that are grunting through heavy-duty tasks.

FORBES: AMD's Spin Room

The government has also increased the tax on land left idle, and speeded up the procedures for its re-distribution.

ECONOMIST: Brazil

Supporting full HD 1080p of resolution, the AMD Z-60 APU delivers up to 10 hours of idle battery life, nearly eight hours of Web browsing and six hours of video playback(2).

ENGADGET: AMD reports $1.27 billion in revenue for Q3 2012

He suggests an idea of "virtual towing" where an idle car could pick up on another vehicle and follow it back to a stack, using inter-car tracking software.

CNN: Reinventing the wheel

An idle gear, picked up for 45 cents on Canal Street, allowed him to make reverse carriages for right-to-left Arabic and Hebrew.

ECONOMIST: Martin Tytell