Posted Fri Feb 5, 2010 09:57 AM ET | 0
One of the more interesting online efforts to spring up in the wake of the Haiti earthquake is Wired's Haiti Rewired. It's part and parcel of an outpouring of great geeky thinking about how tech can help Haitians rebuild, and ... Read more
Posted Fri Jan 22, 2010 09:20 AM ET | 0
It's been inspiring to watch the way technologists and their technologies have played a major role in collecting, analyzing and disseminating useful information for the relief effort in Haiti. Social networking tools, and in particular Twitter, have... Read more
Posted Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:56 AM ET | 0
In the aftermath of last week's earthquake in Haiti, the global tech community is actively searching for ways to aid rescue and relief operations. Over the weekend, volunteers in various US cities met for CrisisCamp Haiti. One of the most ... Read more
Posted Thu Jan 14, 2010 03:57 PM ET | 0
The scenes of destruction emerging from Haiti are, I think you will agree, heartbreaking. Amid the ongoing horror, we're hearing the usual litany of post-disaster needs: food, clean water, medicine, and sanitation. But in our connected world, you... Read more
Posted Tue Jan 5, 2010 03:42 PM ET | 0
I'll admit I'm a little out of my usual element here, writing about the oh-so-freshly released Nexus One smart phone from Google. After all, I usually leave the gadget writing to the gadget experts. In fact, if you want a ... Read more
Posted Thu Dec 10, 2009 10:20 AM ET | 0
This is quite a crustacean. It's called a mantis shrimp. Colorful little devil, huh? Well, get this. Humans see in three colors, but some species of mantis shrimp can see in as many as twelve. Yeah, I know. That's cool. ... Read more
Posted Thu Dec 3, 2009 11:02 AM ET | 0
Oh, if only fighting cyber crime were really as tough and sexy as portrayed by Bruce Willis' character in the film Live Fast and Die Hard. The truth is that bringing cybercriminals to justice is painstaking, and requires a lot ... Read more
Posted Wed Nov 25, 2009 09:21 AM ET | 0
Each year, the day job over at PRI's The World sends me on the hunt of a "the-year-that-was" round-up of global cybercrime. I generally make it a point to check in with some smart people to get a read on ... Read more
Posted Thu Nov 19, 2009 11:14 AM ET | 0
The idea that one government, one organization, or a single group "controls the Internet" is laughable. In my reporting lately, I heard someone refer to the 'Net as "modulated anarchy." I like that. But that, of course, doesn't stop some ... Read more
Posted Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:00 AM ET | 0
You want ambitious? How about this: Bertrand Piccard wants to fly a plane around the world in 2012. No biggie, right? Well, now consider this: the plane he wants to fly around the world will be powered solely by solar ... Read more
Posted Mon Nov 2, 2009 10:46 AM ET | 0
It's not often that I get to celebrate a technology that is, fundamentally, the heart and soul of the day job over at PRI's The World. We're talking existential here, folks. The Internet turned 40 last week. That's UCLA's Leonard ... Read more
Posted Thu Oct 22, 2009 10:43 AM ET | 0
Nearly seven years of covering developments in global technology have taught me two things. First, I remain woefully, albeit sometimes blissfully, ignorant of all the great things that people are doing with technology across the globe. (That's OK,... Read more
Posted Fri Oct 16, 2009 12:30 PM ET | 0
You may have read, right here at Discovery, that Finland's just passed a landmark law that gives all of its citizens (yes, even the ones who live in the middle of snow-covered forests miles from nowhere, or are sitting in ... Read more
Posted Fri Oct 9, 2009 06:00 AM ET | 0
When Mt. Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines in 1991, the resulting effect on global climate was staggering. The eruption sent so many millions tons of debris and aerosols into the stratosphere that it, quite literally, blocked the sun. Despite the... Read more
Posted Fri Sep 25, 2009 06:00 AM ET | 0
Wine lovers, take note of this research. You may not know it, but one of your greatest enemies is something called the grapevine fanleaf virus (GFLV). The results of the virus aren't pretty on the eye (deformed, yellow leaves), or ... Read more
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