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Soon, a trip to the airport might mean a skeleton scan

Aug 24, 2010
Yesterday, body scan images were in the news thanks to a handful of U.S. Senators who want to know why 35,000 images taken of people walking into a...

The Internet Tycoon Instruction Manual

Aug 20, 2010
Christian Sandvig is Associate Professor of Communication, Media and Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and a Faculty...

Net Neutrality: What Are We Fighting For?

Aug 18, 2010
Net Neutrality is a complicated issue.  The recent Google/Verizon policy proposal has raised new questions about the open internet - the idea...

North Korea gets on social media with hilarious results

Aug 17, 2010
Well, if you have a particular sense of humor anyway. Never known as the most web savvy of nations, North Korea has posted a series of web videos...

Notes from a Disappointed Fanboy

Aug 13, 2010
Net Neutrality is a complicated issue.  The recent Google/Verizon policy proposal has raised new questions about the open internet - the idea that...

Google Wave is dead. Here are your haiku eulogies.

Aug 5, 2010
We asked our Twitter followers to write eulogies for Google Wave in haiku form. Here are some of what you came up with:...

Angry Birds: An Appreciation, by Paul F. Tompkins

Aug 3, 2010
(Note: We noticed on Twitter a while back that famed comedian and friend of the show Paul F. Tompkins was somewhat obsessed with the iPhone game...

The Internet: Bringing Families Together

Jul 20, 2010
We're just wrapping up tomorrow's show, about social networking for little kids (and how it might not be as bad a thing as you think). And of...

Coming soon: Magazine Motion Sickness

Jul 20, 2010
While putting together today's episode on whether the iPad can save magazines, I took in this nifty video of how Viv Magazine is turning their...

Shhh: Google quietly fails at something (else)

Jul 19, 2010
Powerful as it may be, and as much as it continues to absorb, amoeba-like, the collected knowledge of the world, Google has its fair share of...