Jan 14 More Headlines: China Responds to Google’s Complaint While we'll once again be keeping the focus on Haiti today, here are a few other stories making headlines this morning: China's Google response: In a response to Google's announcement that it will stop censoring search results in China,… Continue reading
Jan 13 Scientists Explain Geology of Haiti Earthquake By Lea Winerman Tuesday's magnitude 7.0 earthquake was the largest recorded in Haiti since 1770, but more than a dozen quakes of that size have shaken the country's Caribbean neighbors repeatedly over the past centuries. That's because Hispaniola, the Caribbean Island Haiti… Continue reading
Jan 13 Wednesday’s Headlines: Google Threatens to Pull Out of China While the earthquake in Haiti is the main story we're watching today, here are few other headlines of note this morning: Google has announced it will stop censoring search results in China and threatened to pull out… Continue reading
Jan 08 Unveiling the Latest and Greatest in E-Reading Technology Every week, it seems, there’s an announcement of a new electronic reader — a new gadget for reading that is NOT one of those of soft or hardbound pieces of printed matter we’ve all carried… Continue reading
Jan 07 Conversation: The Latest in E-Readers By Tom LeGro In another in our series, "The Next Chapter of Reading," Jeffrey Brown talks to Wired staff writer Priya Ganapati, who is at the International Consumer Electronics Show, about what she's seeing in the latest e-reader products. Continue reading
Jan 07 EPA Proposes Stricter Smog Limits The Environmental Protection Agency proposed stricter new limits on smog Thursday that could have big health benefits, but could also cost up to $90 billion for corporations and the government to implement. The proposal would limit smog to… Continue reading
Jan 06 Astronomy Meeting Highlights New Planets, Hubble Images It's been a busy week for astronomy news, as more than 3,000 space scientists have gathered to present new research at the annual American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington, D.C. Earlier this week, the big headline was that… Continue reading
Jan 04 Census Bureau Launches 2010 Road Tour By Chris Amico The Census Bureau launched its 2010 campaign Monday and will spend $340 million on a media campaign to convince Americans to fill out and send back the decennial surveys. Millions of forms will be mailed to residences and shelters as… Continue reading
Jan 04 Standing Tall Beneath Half-Mile-High Dubai Skyscraper The world's tallest skyscraper officially opened Monday in Dubai to great fanfare, but also to questions about the emirate's crushing debt problems. Known until Monday as the Burj Dubai ("Dubai Tower"), the Middle Eastern monolith was given a new… Continue reading
Jan 04 Watch After Banner Decade, Peering in on the Future of Technology After looking back at technological advancements during the last decade, Ray Suarez talks to an expert panel about how technology may shape our lives in the next ten years. Continue watching