Nov 18 Watch Here’s why it’s harder than you realize to go ‘off the grid’ By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Nov 18 New York City to replace phone booths with Wi-Fi kiosks By Anna Sillers Beginning next year, New York City residents may no longer have to search for a hotspot. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced this week plans to replace the city’s phone booths with new Wi-Fi hot spot kiosks complete with keypads to… Continue reading
Nov 15 AT&T will no longer use ‘supercookies’ to track mobile behavior By Carey Reed AT&T said Friday that it will no longer use hidden, undeletable codes to track mobile users' online behaviors for marketing purposes, according to the Associated Press. Continue reading
Nov 14 U.S. plans to build world’s fastest supercomputers with $425 million By Justin Scuiletti The Department of Energy announced a $425 million budget Friday that will be allocated towards research and construction of supercomputers. A $325 million deal with IBM and Nvidia will see the creation of two new supercomputers that would… Continue reading
Nov 13 Watch After ambitious but bouncy comet landing, science gains would be ‘bonus’ – Part 2 By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Nov 13 Watch Anchor failure puts Philae lander in a precarious position – Part 1 By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Nov 12 Watch Scientists who dared to land on a comet score a touchdown By PBS News Hour The European Space Agency successfully landed a spacecraft the size of a washing machine on a moving comet -- a historic first for space exploration. Tom Clarke of Independent Television News reports on the Philae lander’s amazing touchdown. Continue watching
Nov 10 Watch Why is Obama weighing in on net neutrality? By PBS News Hour More than 3 million commenters crashed the Federal Communications Commission website in July to weigh in on the issue of net neutrality. Now President Obama has added his strong support, directing the FCC to protect equal access to all web… Continue watching
Nov 08 More diverse emojis coming to a smartphone near you By Rialda Zukic Some new, more diverse faces may soon be used for emoji symbols, after a push for more racial diversity earlier this year by smartphone users gained traction with developers. Continue reading
Nov 06 Twitter chat: Should teen sexting be a felony? By Nora Daly In a cover story in The Atlantic, Hanna Rosin tackled the question of “Why Kids Sext,” and the difficulty teen sexting poses to law enforcement. We took the conversation to Twitter. Continue reading