Sep 26 Watch 3:29 Inside the British government’s sweeping cyber surveillance program By PBS News Hour For years, the British government has reportedly tracked and stored billions of records of Internet use by British citizens and those outside the UK in an effort to track every visible user on the Internet. Ryan Gallagher of the Intercept… Continue watching
Sep 02 Watch 3:51 What the Internet’s free culture has cost us in art By PBS News Hour In the burgeoning days of the Internet, everything was free, says author Joshua Cohen. Or at least it felt free. And then he started writing for himself, learning the pride of making something and receiving the spark of recognition. In… Continue watching
Jul 08 Watch 6:30 TV is dead? Author says there’s something wrong with that picture By PBS News Hour Nowadays, there are more and more new media video options carpeting the web. But in his new book, “Television Is The New Television: The Unexpected Triumph of Old Media In the Digital Age,” Michael Wolff argues that the Internet is… Continue watching
Jun 21 Google to remove ‘revenge porn’ from search results By Kenzi Abou-Sabe Google said Friday that the company will begin allowing users to request that nude or sexually explicit images posted without their consent be removed from Google search results. Continue reading
Jun 08 Watch 6:00 Why are Russian trolls spreading online hoaxes in the U.S.? By PBS News Hour In St. Petersburg, a shadowy Russian organization called the Internet Research Agency hires trolls to spread propaganda and hoaxes online. Jeffrey Brown interviews Adrian Chen of The New York Times Magazine about what he’s discovered about the group. Continue watching
May 19 Artist rearranges the world with objects she mines from Google Maps By Joel Wanek and Kristin Farr, KQED Ask Bay Area native Jenny Odell to describe her artistic practice and she just might tell you her work is more akin to a scientist or archivist. Typically it involves scouring the internet for images on Google Maps, YouTube, Yelp… Continue reading
Apr 26 This is how Internet speed and price in the U.S. compares to the rest of the world By Hannah Yi Even though the Internet was invented in the United States, Americans pay the most in the world for broadband access. And it’s not exactly blazing fast. So why are Americans paying more for slower service?… Continue reading
Mar 28 Watch 8:50 Cutting the cable cord: Will the online media boom mean the death of TV? By PBS News Hour Over the past five years, more than three million American homes have canceled their cable subscriptions while plenty more have signed up for online streaming services to control when, where and how they watch their favorite shows. Now, some of… Continue watching
Mar 17 GOP accused White House of pressuring regulators over net neutrality By Anne Flaherty, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Lawmakers are getting their chance this week to weigh in on the "net neutrality" debate that has pitted Internet activists against big cable companies and prompted a record number of public comments filed to U.S. regulators. Continue reading
Mar 14 Watch 8:30 Online after death: Facebook now lets you name an heir to your profile By PBS News Hour Social media, email and bank accounts often remain active even after their owner dies, meaning valuable information can become vulnerable -- especially when estate managers can't access these accounts. While digital estate planning has its own set of complications, the… Continue watching