Tag: technology
India's record power outage causes surprisingly little outage
While India's daily life was disrupted with a second day of power outages, life was moving on. Diesel generators were fired up, and some people just shrugged and moved on. But at the government level, politicians were vowing action to keep this from happening again....
New kids book from Daily Show writer looks at children and blogs
In Tim Carvell's new book, a 12-year-old starts blogging to try and get the attention of a celebrity. Along the way, he deals with life as a pre-teen. But lots of kids blog these days, and they all have different motivations....
Robotic lifeguard 'Emily' to assist lifeguards at beaches across the country
An Arizona-based company, Hydronalix, has created a robotic flotation device named Emily that could provide assistance to lifeguards and help save lives....
European consortium planning huge telescope for Chilean desert
In the Atacama Desert, there's a massive complex of highly sophisticated telescopes. But that's not enough. A group of European countries are planning to build a new, massive telescope nearby....
In hiring Marissa Mayer as new CEO, is Yahoo putting her on a 'glass cliff'
Often, struggling companies look for team-builders, collaborators, people who will put their ego aside to move people toward a common goal. According to British academics, that means they are more likely to hire a woman. Is that what Marissa Mayer is walking into?...
Korean serial entrepreneur turns to China for next big opportunity
A Korean man who went to grad school at Stanford has started and sold several companies in the United States and Japan. But in his search for the next big opportunity, he's transplanted himself to China, where he's expecting a boom in innovation....
Viacom, DirecTV standoff indicative of greater shift underway in pay TV industry
The Internet is disrupting the pay television industry and that's leading to more fights like the one between Viacom and DirecTV. But it may also lead, finally, to customers getting a la carte programming choices....
As machines replace workers, middle class struggles to keep up
Technology has long been a driver of economic growth. But it often comes at a cost. As new innovations allow companies to replace more skilled workers with automated machines, many of those workers are left with nowhere to go. ...
Double-amputee Oscar Pistorius to compete in two Olympic events
Oscar Pistorius, a South African runner, has spent his career blurring the lines between disabled and able-bodied athletes. Next month he'll have the chance to make history as the first amputee to compete in track at the summer Olympics. ...
Physicists anxiously await 'God particle' announcement from CERN
Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland are scheduled to make an announcement Wednesday about the elusive "God particle." Researchers at the facility have spent billions of dollars trying to locate the theoretical particle that forms the basis of modern physics....
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