Oct 30 Sandy Surges Across Northeast Causing Flooding and Power Outages Update: 2:00 p.m. ET | On Monday, Superstorm Sandy slammed into the eastern seaboard, killing at least 38 people in seven states and producing driving rain and hurricane-force wind gusts that caused massive flooding, fires, seawater surges and… Continue reading
Oct 29 Watch Photographer Puts New Spin on ‘Street’ Art Using Google Maps Photographer Doug Rickard sees artistic possibility in the images of people captured in the photographic drive-bys that make up Google Street View. He has travelled thousands of virtual miles, looking for potential photographs in Google's maps that have more than… Continue watching
Oct 29 Digital Campaigns May Decide the Election By Hari Sreenivasan I'm a registered independent who lives in a battleground state, but I'm also what's known as an off-the-grid voter, meaning I've lived with a DVR for a decade and fast forward right through those campaign ads. I haven't had a… Continue reading
Oct 29 Hurricane Sandy Hits Mid-Atlantic By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Hurricane Sandy, which is being called a "superstorm", began bearing down on the East Coast of the United States on Monday. Cities in New York, Delware and New Jersey saw flooding before the hurricane made landfall. These photos follow Sandy's… Continue reading
Oct 28 East Coast Braces for Hurricane Sandy By Larisa Epatko According to an advisory issued at 5 p.m. ET Sunday, the National Hurricane Center warns that Sandy is expected to bring life-threatening storm surge flooding to the Mid-Atlantic coast, including Long Island Sound and New York Harbor. Continue reading
Oct 26 Watch With Windows 8, Microsoft Makes Big Shift Away From PCs Towards Tablets With Windows 8, Microsoft Makes Big Shift Away From PCs Towards Tablets… Continue watching
Oct 26 Hurricane Sandy Sweeps Along East Coast By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Hurricane Sandy is moving along the East Coast of the United States. The category one storm has left the Bahamas and is traveling north, leaving a trail a destruction through the Caribbean and blowing into Florida. Continue reading
Oct 26 Designing Robobees Poses Engineering Challenge EmbedVideo(4826, 482, 304); The robotic bee, or "robobee" has an electronic nervous system that tells it to flap its wings, an exoskeleton inspired by a children's pop-up book and a computer-chip brain. Researchers at Harvard University are designing… Continue reading
Oct 26 Watch Science Nation – RoboBees: Design Poses Intriguing Engineeri It started with a TV show, "Silence of the Bees," about honeybee populations in steep decline. At Harvard University, electrical engineers Rob Wood and Gu-Yeon Wei, and computer scientist Radhika Nagpal saw a challenge. And, so began the creation of… Continue watching
Oct 25 Watch Digital Technology Helps Researchers Hear Earliest Recordings Better Digital Technology Helps Researchers Hear Earliest Recordings Better… Continue watching