Mar 16 FCC Urges 20-Fold Internet Speed Increase in U.S. Broadband Plan By Jason Breslow The Federal Communications Commission formally unveiled Tuesday a sweeping proposal to expand broadband Internet access across the U.S., a critical peg of the Obama administration's efforts to boost the nation's global competitiveness. The FCC proposal calls for connecting… Continue reading
Mar 15 Obama and FCC Betting on Broadband as Stimulus By Chris Amico _pap_embed_custom('news01s3cc0qe29',482,304,""); The Federal Communications Commission and the Obama administration will unveil a plan Tuesday to broaden high-speed Internet access in the United States and encourage telecom companies to provide faster download speeds. The plan comes from a directive in last… Continue reading
Mar 10 Watch Criticism of Climate Change Science Heats Up The United Nations has ordered an independent review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change amid a growing backlash over mistakes found in its Nobel Prize-winning report on the science behind global warming. Jeffrey Brown reports. Continue watching
Mar 08 Director of ‘The Cove’ Puts Oscar in Perspective By Arts Desk A wave of new attention is likely to fall on a remote fishing village in Japan after director Louie Psihoyos won the best feature documentary prize for "The Cove" at the 82nd Academy Awards on Sunday. Continue reading
Mar 05 Newspapers Making Public Data More Understandable for Readers For many citizens, public data often have been difficult to find and decipher. Last year, Data.Gov was launched with the stated purpose of increasing "public access to high-value, machine-readable datasets," part of a wider effort to make government more… Continue reading
Mar 04 Study Reasserts That Asteroid Blast Wiped Out the Dinosaurs About 65 million years ago, a huge asteroid traveling 20 times faster than a bullet crashed into Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, sending up projectile debris with such force that the debris rained back down as far away as New Zealand. Continue reading
Mar 01 Pew Study: News Becoming More Personalized, Participatory, Portable By Hari Sreenivasan As you read this blog and watch this video online, you're digesting your news on the third-most-popular news platform: the Internet, a new study shows. For news consumers, the Internet ranks ahead of national print newspapers, local print newspapers and… Continue reading
Feb 25 U.S.-Canadian Economic Ties Weigh In to Climate Change Debate By Judy Woodruff As part of a continuing series of conversations about climate change legislation, Judy Woodruff recently talked with Brad Wall, premier of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Wall argues that because the U.S. and American economies are "so inextricably linked,… Continue reading
Feb 24 Google Plans Rigorous Appeal of Executives’ Conviction in Italy No one disputes that the Italian video -- posted online in 2006 -- showing a young man with Down syndrome being bullied was despicable. An organization working on behalf of people with Down syndrome complained to Google, which says… Continue reading