China's internet censorship should not be condoned. But Google is not the champion of our moral values, nor should it be asked to be. The responsibility lies with us, through our elected officials and through our own actions.
What is globalized human society going to do with the mass of unemployed human beings that are rendered obsolete by the approaching super-intelligence of the Bio-Info-Nano Singularity?
An announcement: the University of Nebraska College of Law's American Constitution Society is introducing a law-interviews podcast series. The target audience is law students, lawyers, and legal academics. Tell your friends. Tell your lawyer.
When the physicist Leon Lederman coined the term "God Particle", he might not have thought of referring to a literal God (personal or impersonal), he was probably focusing the elusive nature of the particle, whose existence is not even confirmed yet.
Apple's explanation for the iPhone 4 reception issues is, literally, stunning: "Upon investigation, we were stunned to find that the formula we use to calculate how many bars to display is totally wrong."
While he is one of the space industry's top robotics specialists, Dr. Andrew E. Johnson is more rock & roll than rocket scientist.
A vision for a wireless Africa could spell the difference between a country and its people making $1 a day, or $10 a day.
The only thing bigger than the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is the size of BP's public relations disaster. Just as BP can't control the oil spill as it seeps further and further, nor can they control what the public is saying.
If President Obama doesn't start treating the Internet like the vital infrastructure that it is -- and stop giving away the store to telecom lobbies -- he'll lose his most strategically important constituency this November.
Every morning my first Internet destination has been Google News. Until this week -- when Google News rolled out what detractors have called its "New Coke," which, to my mind, presents a technical nightmare and an aesthetic atrocity.
Media giants are spending a fortune to convince lawmakers and regulators to dismantle consumer protections on the Internet and give industry absolute power over the most important communications medium of our time.
Just a couple of months after it hit the market, Microsoft will kill its Kin phone. It was aimed at socially-minded teens, but teens ignored it. Some reports say that Microsoft sold as few as 500 units. That doesn't sound like a lot. 


The new healthcare stuff sounds way more complicated than it is, but like with any kind of insurance, there's always a need for a little help.
Rana Sobhany made waves as the world's first iPad DJ. Now, she's back with Solace a brand new video shot and edited entirely on the iPhone 4, with music composed and produced on the iPad.
The number one thing I hear from customers is that their personal and professional lives have blurred. People work during personal time, and personal life mixes with professional life too. It's overwhelming.
EdgeTheory conversations is an ongoing discussion series that uses the news of the day as an opportunity to discuss broader technology. Louis Gray and I discuss the rumored new service from Google called "Google Me."
The big telecom companies spending all that money are spending it for a reason. They want to control your access to the Internet, and, as a result, your experience on the Internet. Now is the time to stand up and say no.
A survey of London and New York City taxi companies last year revealed that more than 12,500 portable devices are forgotten in taxis every six months; portable devices that may have troves of sensitive data.