Nov 29 Watch Why the Cassini Mission Needs to Continue Judy Woodruff asks Carolyn Porco if NASA can afford to continue exploring Saturn. Continue watching
Nov 26 New Xbox owners could lose access to certain functions for “excess profanity” Miguel Villagran/Getty Images Xbox users who upload messages with excessive profane language could be banned from Xbox live, TechCrunch reports. Continue reading
Nov 17 Watch Government security breach by Anonymous – scope unknown Joseph Menn of Reuters reports on the story he helped break about how activist hackers linked to the collective known as Anonymous have secretly accessed U.S. government computers in multiple agencies and stolen sensitive information. Menn says the campaign began… Continue watching
Nov 15 Watch Astro Teller talks playing the ‘moonshot game’ Astro Teller talks playing the 'moonshot game'… Continue watching
Nov 14 Watch ATF head Jones reflects on agency’s outdated technology, system vulnerabilities ATF head Jones reflects on agency's outdated technology, system vulnerabilities… Continue watching
Nov 13 Hari Sreenivasan hosts talk with Google’s ‘captain of moonshots’ about the future of Internet access Photo by Flickr user iLighter Google's Project Loon wants to get people living in rural and remote areas of the world online, the two-thirds of the world who do not have access to the Internet. The network… Continue reading
Nov 09 Financial Times on the best 100 innovations for digital change Charles Leadbeater discusses the top 100 groundbreaking applications of digital technology, from finding lost children in China to sharing experiences of illness, in this weekend's Financial Times magazine. Leadbeater, is a Nominet Trust board member and led the… Continue reading
Nov 07 Watch As estimates of meteor strikes rise, how can Earth avoid destruction? As the risk of meteor strikes rises, how can Earth avoid destruction?… Continue watching
Nov 05 Let your phone be your tour guide at the World War II Memorial Screenshot of the Android version of the WWII Memorial App. Getting a tour at Washington, D.C.'s World War II Memorial will now be as easy as downloading an app to your smartphone. The new, succinctly-named "World… Continue reading
Oct 29 Data shows self-driving Google cars safer than its human-operated counterpart Photo by Flickr User Stanford Center for Internet and Society Google's autonomous-car project collected data from self-driving Prius and Lexus cars over hundreds of thousands of miles on public roads, which they say reveals the self-driving… Continue reading