Technology
Obama Administration Seeks Online Privacy Rules
()The Obama administration is calling for stronger privacy protections for consumers as mobile gadgets, Internet services and other tools are able to do a better job of tracking what you do and where you go.
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How Hackers Could Target Power Plants()
February 21, 2012 Gen. Keith Alexander, the director of the National Security Agency, has warned administration officials that Anonymous — the loosely organized, computer-hacking collective — could have the ability to knock out power stations within the next few years, The Wall Street Journal reports.
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Twitter Diplomacy: State Department 2.0()
February 21, 2012 Diplomacy in the age of social media is transforming the way ambassadors do their jobs. From tweets to Facebook posts, the State Department is encouraging ambassadors to get their messages out in new and different ways.
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Google Is Dodging Internet Explorer's Privacy Protections (So Is Facebook)()
February 21, 2012 Google, Facebook and 11,000 other companies are circumventing privacy protections in Internet Explorer.
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Tech Pioneer Channels Hard Lessons Into Silicon Valley Success()
February 20, 2012 Jen-Hsun Huang's education in the rough environment of eastern Kentucky helped make him a tough player in the tech industry. Now Nvidia, the company he co-founded, makes powerful graphics chips that bring realistic games and movie effects to screens small and large.
Arts & Life
Our Media, Ourselves: Are We Headed For A Matrix?()
February 20, 2012 We're streaming our video, downloading our books and doing away with the hard copies that used to help communicate our personalities to one another. Bob Mondello points to a surprisingly early vision of that kind of digital future — and asks what's behind the worry it expresses.
The New Running Game Where 'Zombies' Chase You()
February 19, 2012 There are many running apps out there but none are quite like the new iPhone app "Zombies, RUN!" In addition to escaping hungry zombies, the app challenges the runner to collect supplies and accomplish objectives, all in a post-apocalyptic world.
Books
At Last, They See: E-Books 'Democratize' Publishing()
February 19, 2012 Not known as a hotbed of experimentation, the world of publishing has been slow to embrace the transition from print to digital. But in New York this past week, the publishers who gathered were more interested in exploring new ideas than arguing about the death of books.
Building A Village Starts With Building The Tractor()
February 19, 2012 Do-it-yourselfers have made everything from bamboo bicycles to 3-D printers, but nothing as ambitious as the Open Source Ecology project. On a farm in northwest Missouri, tractors and other industrial machines are made from scratch, with detailed plans on how to do it yourself shared online.
Strange News
Through RecordSetter, Everyone Can Be World Champ()
February 18, 2012 If a feat is "quantifiable and breakable" and there is media proof of it, RecordSetter's co-founder says, the website will recognize it as a world record. The website accepts submissions for just about anything.
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The Man/Machine That Makes The Tesla Coil Sing()
February 18, 2012 Watch musician Max Weisel "play" a bolt of lightning on the set of Bjork's Biophilia.
