Oct 19 Watch In Brazil’s Slums, Economic Inequality Tackled With Technology Rio de Janeiro's gleaming skyline befits a world economic power, but it is not far from violent, impoverished slums. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on one man's efforts to tackle Brazil's wealth inequality by providing poor people access… Continue watching
Oct 06 Watch What Does Future Hold for Tech World, Apple Without Jobs? Late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was remembered Thursday as being one the of world's greatest innovators. Jeffrey Brown discusses his life and work with Google's Vint Cerf, Boing Boing's Xeni Jardin and AOL co-founder Steve Case. Continue watching
Oct 06 Watch Remembering the Life, Designs of Digital Visionary Steve Jobs In a statement late Wednesday, Apple said its co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs lost his battle with pancreatic cancer at age 56. Correspondent Spence Michels looks back on the life and work of the digital visionary. Continue watching
Oct 06 Steve Jobs Must-Reads: Reflections, Tributes, Photos and Webcomics Notes of condolence for Steve Jobs at an Apple store in Hong Kong. AFP/Getty Updated 1:42 p.m. ET The Web was awash in tributes and remembrances for late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs Thursday as people reacted to news that… Continue reading
Oct 05 Apple’s Steve Jobs Dies at Age 56 Updated 8:53 p.m. ET Apple said in a brief statement late Wednesday that company co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs has died. Jobs, 56, has been suffering from pancreatic cancer and has been on medical leave for an… Continue reading
Oct 05 Eric Schmidt on Google vs. Facebook By News Desk Gwen Ifill interviewed Google's Eric Schmidt -- the company's former CEO and current executive chairman -- as part of the Washington Ideas Forum Wednesday. Among her questions about the search giant: can it really take on Facebook with it's… Continue reading
Oct 05 Text-Messaging for Health Still Has Its Challenges By Larisa Epatko At first glance, text-messaging health alerts to poor, rural populations with widespread mobile phone use is a no-brainer. But what about the challenges of providing useful information and the simple act of re-charging phones in isolated spots?… Continue reading
Sep 30 Solar Decathlon Contest Refocuses on Affordability of New Homes EmbedVideo(1649, 482, 304); WASHINGTON | In addition to more space for her family, Lakiya Culley's new home in Southeast Washington, D.C., comes with another big benefit: miniscule power bills. Culley will be living in the Empowerhouse. The house… Continue reading
Sep 21 Watch Live at 2 p.m. ET: Google CEO Testifies in Senate Antitrust Hearing The Google logo at company headquarters; Photo by Robert Galbraith-Pool/Getty Images Google CEO Eric Schmidt is set to testify Wednesday afternoon before a Senate subcommittee that will ask him whether the Internet giant is unfairly hurting competitors by boosting… Continue reading
Aug 26 Watch Car of the Future Will Keep Us Safe Behind the Wheel at any Age For more on this story, go to www.pbs.org/newshour… Continue watching