Microsoft, Yahoo Reach Long-Term Search Deal
In an effort to combat Google’s dominant market share, Microsoft and Yahoo have announced a 10-year long partnership that will give Microsoft access...
Science & Technology
AT&T Did Not Censor 4chan
AT&T, on July 26, temporarily blocked its customers from accessing the img.4chan.org image-sharing website. Both AT&T and img.4chan.org founder Christopher “Moot” Poole say...
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Regulators Searching Google
Representatives from the European Union said on July 20 that they are investigating Google’s digital book publishing project for possible violations of European...
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Taxing Energy in the Name of Climate Change
The San Francisco Chronicle reported on June 25: “The climate-change legislation likely to win House approval Friday will produce ‘millions of jobs’ in...
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Remembering Apollo 11 and the Promise of the “Space Age”
As millions of Americans remember “where they were” 40 years ago when they first heard Neil Armstrong’s famous first words from the surface...
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National Geographic Defends the Facts of the Apollo 11 Mission
Neil Armstrong’s famous “small step” at the moon’s Sea of Tranquility on July 20, 1969 was among the defining moments of an entire...
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Senate Confirms Bolden as NASA Administrator
A July 16 article posted to the online tech journal The Register entitled, “Former Astronaut Takes Control of NASA” was among the numerous...
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China: Apple iPhones But No Wi-Fi
Apple Corp., supplier of Wi-Fi-enabled iPhones, has been carrying on a war of words with the Chinese government — emblematic of what happens...
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Cyber Attacks Originating With N. Korea?
Beginning over the Independence Day weekend and continuing on into this week, several federal agencies' websites were paralyzed by what was clearly a...
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China Delays Censorship Software Rule
Communist China on June 30 postponed its requirement that the controversial Green Dam Youth Escort censorship software be included with all computers sold...
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Competing for Best Censorship
Technology firms in countries with little government repression are currently competing to be the best at helping repressive regimes like China and Iran...
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Satellite Spying on Americans
When the Associated Press leads a story with the headline that “Homeland security kills domestic satellite program,” can you rest easily that your...
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Estimate of Natural-gas Reserves Jumps 35 Percent
The Potential Gas Committee, a group of academics and industry specialists supported by the Colorado School of Mines, reports the largest increase in...
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U.S. Nuclear Site List Leaked
Steven Aftergood, a security expert with the Federation of American Scientists, reported on June 1 that “a compilation of hundreds of U.S. nuclear...
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President Obama’s Cybersecurity Plan
On May 29 President Barack Obama introduced his administration's new report on cybersecurity in the United States entitled Cyberspace Policy Review: Assuring a...
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