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
Jul 12 How Do You Hack Into Someone's Voicemail? By Larry Greenemeier, Scientific American Creative Commons photo courtesy flickr.com/dinomite The scandal that helped shutter Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid and left at least nine News International journalists facing possible criminal charges has brought phone hacking into the spotlight as a… Continue reading
Jun 29 Watch Can DIY Movement Fix a Crisis in U.S. Science Education? Miles O'Brien reports from a gathering in California on a growing movement that embraces the art of making cool things and a quirky do-it-yourself spirit. Supporters see "making" as one way to overcome a crisis in American science and math… Continue watching
Jun 07 Watch To Combat Human Rights Abuses, California Company Looks to Computer Code A California company using high-tech tools to combat human rights abuses across the globe. Continue watching
Jun 06 Watch Apple Unveils New iCloud Music Service, but Privacy Issues May Lurk Steve Jobs returned to the public stage Monday to announce Apple's iCloud, a new online music storage service. Ray Suarez discusses the announcement with The Washington Post's Technology Reporter Cecilia Kang. Continue watching
May 20 Furry Robots, Foldable Cars and More Innovations from MIT's Media Lab We recently visited the Media Lab at MIT for our story on George Mason University economist Tyler Cowen's ebook, "The Great Stagnation." Cowen argues that the pace of innovation is stalling. We went to MIT for the counterargument. Here's a… Continue reading