Aug 24 Apple Wins $1 Billion Patent Infringement Suit Against Samsung For the past year, Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics have been locked in a showdown over dominance of a $200 billion-plus smartphone and tablet market. In April 2011, Apple filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung, making accusations that… Continue reading
Jul 13 Watch In Austin, Charged up About Smart Power Miles O'Brien examines power grid reliability in a neighborhood near Austin, Texas that uses "smart grid" technology to track - and control - its energy consumption. Continue watching
Jul 12 Watch Ray Kurzweil on Bringing Back the Dead An interview with futurist Ray Kurzweil on the possibility of bringing back the dead. Continue watching
Jul 11 Watch Ray Kurweil’s Immortality Cocktail The second of our interview outtakes with inventor/author/futurist Ray Kurzweil. Continue watching
Jul 10 Watch Futurist Ray Kurzweil on Singularity Paul Solman talks with Ray Kurzweil about singularity: the melding of man and machine. Continue watching
Jul 09 Watch Disappearing Dead: Economic Optimism about Immortality Paul Solman interviews inventor,author and futurist Ray Kurzweil about eternal life. Continue watching
Jun 27 Watch Public Universities Grapple with Money, Technology and Mission Public Universities Grapple with Money, Technology and Mission… Continue watching
Jun 13 Verizon Wants You to Share Everything but Data Plans Verizon Wireless, the nation's largest mobile carrier, announced they are changing up how they will bill for data services across devices. The new plan, called Share Everything, means new customers and current customers who choose to… Continue reading
May 24 Watch Man vs. Machine: Will Human Workers Become Obsolete? Part of his series on Making Sen$e of financial news, Paul Solman has been showcasing the future of technology from a recent conference run by a California think tank -- things such as 3-D printing of prosthetic legs and iPhone… Continue watching
May 18 Watch ‘The Information Diet’: Should Americans Exercise More ‘Conscious Consumption’? 'The Information Diet': Should Americans Exercise More 'Conscious Consumption'?… Continue watching