Dec 14 Watch How will thousands of drones impact already crowded skies? By PBS News Hour Drone aircraft might be delivering Amazon orders to your door soon says Jeff Bezos But first states and the federal government are wrestling with the implications of many new, pilotless aircraft -- how they might affect civil liberties -- and… Continue watching
Dec 12 Watch House Intelligence Committee chair discusses support for NSA spying laws Does the scope of U.S. surveillance need to be scaled back?… Continue watching
Dec 11 Watch How ‘flipped classrooms’ are turning the traditional school day upside down How 'flipped classrooms' are turning the traditional school day upside down… Continue watching
Dec 10 DARPA’s new satellite is designed to spy on 40 percent of the Earth .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; height: auto; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } Video courtesy Defense Advanced Research… Continue reading
Dec 06 Study links student cellphone use to higher anxiety, lower grades If you know someone in school, chances are you've gotten a surreptitious text from them during class. It's a sign that their mind might have wandered from the lecture, but also an indicator of cellphones' widespread use among college students. Continue reading
Dec 02 Amazon enlists drones to bring deliveries to your doorstep .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; height: auto; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } On Sunday, Amazon revealed its… Continue reading
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