May 28 Watch Google's diversity record shows women and minorities left behind By PBS News Hour Continue watching
May 28 Fixing Google's gender gap shouldn't be so hard By Vivek Wadhwa Silicon Valley companies justify their dearth of women technologists by claiming that there just aren’t enough to go around. And employee data from Google released Wednesday prove that the technology behemoth is no different; only 17 percent of its technology… Continue reading
May 28 Google just took an important first step By Telle Whitney, Anita Borg Institute Today’s announcement by Google is a step in the right direction for the technology industry. That being said, the numbers are not good. Continue reading
May 28 Google unveils plans for driverless car By Talia Mindich Google will begin building its own driverless cars, co-founder Sergey Brin announced Tuesday night at a conference in California. Continue reading
May 13 Europe's high court upholds 'right to be forgotten' on the Web By Ellen Rolfes The European Union's highest court has ruled against Google, upholding the "right to be forgotten" for Europeans on the Internet. Court of Justice of the European Union's decision means Google and other search engines must now remove links to… Continue reading
May 12 'Cynja' battles botnets and other cyber-scourges By Larisa Epatko Fictional character Grant Wiley, 11, is a wiz on computers. One day, his favorite teacher disappears, leaving nothing at his desk but a smoldering USB stick. Suspecting his help might be needed, Grant grabs the stick and plugs it into… Continue reading
May 05 Your next mixtape could hold more songs than tens of thousands of iPods combined By Justin Scuiletti Sony debuted a new tape format Sunday at the International Magnetics Conference in Dresden, Germany that can hold 148 gigabytes of data per square inch; shattering a previous magnetic tape record of 29.5 gigabytes. If packed into a… Continue reading
Apr 30 On tiny racetrack, scientists test self-driving cars of the future By Frank Bi, Joshua Barajas In a robotics lab at George Washington University, there’s a small-scale race track, complete with a loop-the-loop. A battery-powered car hurls itself around the room, flipping over jumps and around the vertical spiral. “They are really robust, so when a… Continue reading
Apr 30 Who ended up paying attention to the Heartbleed bug? By Colleen Shalby Pew Research Center surveyed 1,501 American adults and asked them what steps, if any, they took following the Heartbleed revelation. Continue reading