Feb 02 Frontline's Digital Nation Explores Ones and Zeros All Around Us By Hari Sreenivasan Digital Nation correspondent Douglas Rushkoff spoke with The Rundown to give us a sneak peak of the intriguing Frontline broadcast airing Tuesday night on many PBS stations. The 90-minute program takes viewers around the globe to explore how our… Continue reading
Feb 02 Watch Digital Nation: Exploring Technology's Impact on Society In an excerpt from the PBS program "Frontline," Rachel Dreztin examines how our brains are being shaped by technology, how companies are spicing up conference calls with avatars and how advances in weaponry have reshaped war. Continue watching
Feb 02 Watch Budget Cuts Launch Debate on NASA's Future Rather than send a man back to the moon, President Obama's proposed budget calls for a far less expensive plan of encouraging private companies to build spacecrafts for NASA to rent. But veterans of the space agency's golden years fear… Continue watching
Feb 01 President Obama's YouTube Interview: The New Fireside Chat? By Hari Sreenivasan Fresh off his interview with President Barack Obama, YouTube's Steve Grove stopped by The Rundown Monday evening to discuss new ways the public is communicating its concerns and suggestions with the White House. _pap_embed_custom('news01s3a23qdbe',482,304,""); Watch Grove's full interview with… Continue reading
Jan 27 Why the iPad May Prove to be an 'iLuxury' Item By Hari Sreenivasan If they were smaller, perhaps you would purchase fewer iPhones; if they were smaller, perhaps you would purchase fewer MacBooks -- is the category Apple is trying to create with its new iPad sustainable? Is there a reason that… Continue reading
Jan 26 Business, Environmental Coalition Among Players Pushing for Climate Change Bill By Judy Woodruff We're starting a series of conversations here on the Rundown about where climate change legislation stands in Congress. Among the players: A large consortium of American corporations and environmental groups, who are pushing Congress to adapt new laws to regulate… Continue reading
Jan 25 Watch Carp Invade, Threaten Great Lakes' Ecosystem Tom Bearden looks at how some Midwestern states are battling the threat of carp overpopulation, which is damaging the Great Lakes' fragile ecosystem. Continue watching
Jan 21 Watch News Wrap: Senate's Reform Bill Won't Pass House, Warns Pelosi In other news, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned that the Senate health care bill is unlikely to succeed in the House unless significantly altered, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Internet companies to resist censorship worldwide. Continue watching
Jan 18 Watch Texting for Charity: Cell Phone Users Sending Relief for Haiti In just five days, the Red Cross has raised more than $21 million for the relief effort in Haiti through text messages. As Tom Bearden reports, cellphones have emerged as the new big player in charitable giving. Continue watching
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