Russia May Send Spacecraft To Knock Away Asteroid That Could Hit Earth
MOSCOW — Russia's space agency chief said Wednesday a spacecraft may be dispatched to knock a large asteroid off course and reduce the chances o...
MOSCOW — Russia's space agency chief said Wednesday a spacecraft may be dispatched to knock a large asteroid off course and reduce the chances o...
Michael Conniff | Posted 12.30.2009 | Entertainment
Avatar was much better than good. Cameron has now set the bar so high that Steven Spielberg and George Lucas will spend the rest of their careers trying to reach the planet Pandora.
Max Stier | Posted 12.30.2009 | Home
The first-ever White House cybersecurity coordinator, needs to prioritize the training and hiring of a highly skilled cybersecurity team.
Posted 12.29.2009 | Technology
The Web can be a repetitive and boring place. Many Web sites look the same or are created based on the same basic principles. Fortunately, that's not...
Andrew Sniderman | Posted 12.26.2009 | Technology
we are increasingly exposing ourselves to others. The insidious genius of Gmail is that its users consent to self-surveillance. Just as my Inbox stores messages to me, my outgoing messages are stored in the Inboxes of the recipients -- and in the cloud.
Chantal Sicile-Kira | Posted 12.24.2009 | Living
Dear Santa, This year, I am not asking for a cure for breast cancer, or cures for world hunger, ignorance, the crappy world economy, homelessness, th...
The New York Times | William Grimes | Posted 12.24.2009 | Books
Loren Singer, whose 1970 conspiracy thriller, "The Parallax View," later made into a movie starring Warren Beatty, was one of the first novels to offe...
Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 12.23.2009 | Living
Substantial gains could be achieved by organizing everyday activities that grow neurological abilities and sustain brain health. If the ordinary citizen is to achieve brain fitness, they'll need to work at it.
Eric Williams | Posted 12.23.2009 | Politics
As I look back on the past ten years of the "Still-Unnicknamed Zeroes," I'd like to formally request a little less turbulence in the next decade. Please? No era is devoid of history.
Thomas Goetz | Posted 12.22.2009 | Living
Personalized medicine is an idea that someday we will all enjoy customized medical care that keeps us healthier. In the meantime, we're stuck with cookie-cutter predictions and trial-and-error treatments.
Jose Antonio Vargas | Posted 12.28.2009 | Technology
Technology has never looked so human in film. James Cameron has created a wholly believable, realistic world, at once marking a new cinematic era and expanding the possibilities of film in our technology-dependent, digital entertainment-driven 21st century. From here on out, movies will be divided into two epochs: B.A. and A.A. Before "Avatar," After "Avatar."
Mark Drapeau | Posted 12.21.2009 | Politics
Recently, I wrote a post about Government 2.0 predictions for 2010-12, and one of them was that government would "always be on-the-record."
Dr. Hendrie Weisinger | Posted 12.21.2009 | Living
As research would indicate, most projects never achieve the success desired. How can you ensure that your projects are succesful? What can you do to assure your boss you will deliver the goods--on time?
Blythe McGarvie | Posted 12.20.2009 | World
We must understand the changes from the last 10 years in order to anticipate the direction of our global economy for the next few years. I believe the zeitgeist is the Decade of Disillusionment, or the condition of having lost naive faith and trust.
Mark Drapeau | Posted 12.17.2009 | Business
Are you the best in the world at what you do? Ten years ago, it was very difficult to answer this question. One didn't really have a good sense of who the best shoe salesmen. Now, things are different.
Kety Esquivel | Posted 12.18.2009 | Technology
I usually begin my New Media presentations with an aerial shot of the marches in Chicago in 2006 and state the outrageous but obvious claim: "In 2006 ...
Posted 12.16.2009 | Technology
The Village Church, a megachurch in Texas encompassing three communities, is utilizing the social networking sites Twitter and Facebook to update its ...
Jerri Chou | Posted 12.16.2009 | Impact
I'm testifying at New York City Council today on tech entrepreneurship and how the city can better support this community. Here are some of my thoughts going into the hearing.
Brad Smith | Posted 12.16.2009 | Impact
Today, Microsoft has donated to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children technology we call PhotoDNATM, designed to help fight the spread of graphic child pornography online.
Jose Antonio Vargas | Posted 12.15.2009 | Technology
Is there another American political figure who's been so right, so prescient, about so many things -- and, in turn, so loathed by a consistent vocal opposition? No, there's only one Al Gore.
Jose Antonio Vargas | Posted 12.15.2009 | Technology
This is an excerpt of a wide-ranging, three-hour interview with Al Gore, touching on the impact of technology and the Internet in politics; the state of the mainstream media and the left and right blogosphere; the role of the Web in his crusade on climate change, among others topics.
Satya Nadella | Posted 12.15.2009 | Technology
People are moving beyond the simple query in online search to a URL mapping scenario. They're using search to answer more complex questions, accomplish tasks and make decisions.
Dan Agin | Posted 12.13.2009 | Books
What happened in the 20th century was that the puzzle of life, which had passed from philosophers to theologians to zoologists, finally passed to chemists.
Leslie Harris | Posted 12.10.2009 | Technology
The transition to the "Smart Grid" holds great promise for consumers, such as lowered energy costs, increased use of "green" technology and improved security from malicious hacking and outages.
Colin Delany | Posted 12.09.2009 | Politics
With software designed to allow campaigns to tap the enthusiasm (and the wallets) of supporters, 2010 should see an explosion of online fund-raising at the state and local levels.
AP | VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV | Posted 12.30.2009 | World