Hackers Shut Down: China Puts End To Online Academy
Reporting from Beijing - The pitch was tantalizing: Just a little training and you too could hack websites, earning thrills, power and, in many cases,...
Reporting from Beijing - The pitch was tantalizing: Just a little training and you too could hack websites, earning thrills, power and, in many cases,...
Reverend Billy | Posted 02.08.2010 | Green
Our series of orgiastic futures in America has broken through one final horizon. We are surprised to be confronted by the actual future and it is nothing like how we marketed it.
Patrice Peyret | Posted 02.08.2010 | Home
On Feb. 22, new first of many new financial regulations to protect consumers takes effect. It's not a moment too soon. Banking, especially retail bank...
Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 02.08.2010 | Technology
Michael Bloomberg, the man who made his fortune managing data, is now leading the nation by giving away a firehose of data about NYC to young hungry developers looking for data to turn into products.
Christina Gagnier | Posted 02.08.2010 | Los Angeles
Government 2.0 is an umbrella term for the variety of projects and platforms coming from both the public and private sectors that have the goal of bringing government into the 21st century.
Stephanie Vaughn Hapke | Posted 02.06.2010 | Technology
While the jury is still out on the iPad's ability to replace the typical eReader, the very thought must strike concern with Amazon and the other companies with readers on the market, or coming in short order.
Christina Gagnier | Posted 02.07.2010 | Technology
Gov2.0LA kicked off this morning in Los Angeles, bringing together members of the communications, technology and government communities to foster disc...
Patrick Boyle | Posted 02.06.2010 | Technology
My children are technologically super-skilled, leaving me in the dust. How could this be happening?
Bettina Korek | Posted 02.05.2010 | Los Angeles

Instead of talking about reducing funds for the arts, we should make sure that as part of the country's recovery efforts, programs like the New Deal's Work Progress Administration, are resurrected.
Thomas Goetz | Posted 02.05.2010 | Living
Prostate cancer illustrates a flip side to that rote approach to cancer: Sometimes, it seems, cancer isn't something sure to be fatal. And sometimes the cure can be worse than the disease.
Money.cnn.com | Blake Ellis, Staff Reporter | Posted 02.04.2010 | Technology
Virgin unveiled the latest addition to Richard Branson's luxury fleet: an underwater plane that flies riders into the depths of the Caribbean Sea....
Steven C. Hayes, Ph.D. | Posted 02.03.2010 | Living
We're getting smarter. But our emotional and social intelligence seems to be going backwards. What if these two trends emerge from the same place: the info overload modern technology provides for us.
Madeline Wheeler | Posted 02.03.2010 | Technology
Phoebe Prince did not have to die. Bullying is another form of hate-crime. It is a problem that can be solved through education and legislation.
Martin Ford | Posted 02.02.2010 | Business
Jobs are disappearing, and we'll have to somehow adapt to that. In the long run, this means embracing a solution that likely involves some form of job sharing and income supplementation for most.
Brian Ross | Posted 01.29.2010 | Politics
President Obama wants to bulk up high-speed rail, and scale down defense spending. FDR converted peace-time manufacturers into a dominating wartime pr...
David All | Posted 01.28.2010 | Technology
The GOP has surpassed the Democratic Party online -- just look at its innovative, direct media techniques responding to the president's first State of the Union address.
Craig Kanalley | Posted 01.28.2010 | Technology
The iPad will do to eReaders what the iPhone did to phones. That's to say nothing of the true value of that product --- its 140,000 apps.
Lea Lane | Posted 01.27.2010 | Comedy
We've gotten used to the iPod and the iPhone; now here comes the iPad. In the coming years I assume we can look forward to a host of other magic gadg...
Dean Garfield | Posted 01.27.2010 | Politics
Over the next decade, the world promises to be a smaller, faster, more connected place. This nation's standing in that new world will be determined by the decisions we make today.
One For The Table | Posted 01.27.2010 | Living
The "one more thing" as Steve Jobs always says at the end of his presentations will be that in one year I will wonder how I ever lived without it.
Charlotte Safavi | Posted 01.27.2010 | Books
When it comes to books, I have come to terms with the fact that it is the written word that counts, not the medium upon which it is delivered.
Posted 01.26.2010 | Technology
Apple Tablet rumors are everywhere, and with the Apple Tablet announcement expected to finally take place less than 24 hours away, it's interesting to...
Posted 01.26.2010 | Technology
The long-awaited 'Apple Tablet' PC is only hours away. Although all signs suggest the Apple press conference tomorrow at 10 a.m. Pacific Time is the A...
Gil Laroya | Posted 01.26.2010 | Technology
There's a strange side effect happening around the world, which seems to be occurring more overseas than here at home: countries who adopt our technology are slowly adopting our social styles as well.
Lee Stranahan | Posted 01.26.2010 | Business
Politicians of both parties use the issue of unemployment as a political football and set the terms of most of our media discussion of the issue of jo...
latimes.com | Barbara Demick | Posted 02.09.2010 | Technology