FALCON

Bird cams turn otherwise diligent employees into falcon fanatics.

Today or tomorrow the Falcon 9 rocket is slated for test launch at Cape Canaveral. When the 18-story rocket fires into orbit – or crashes into the ocean – it will be carrying no cargo, no astronauts, just one heavy load: Obama’s hopes for space.

Computer users in Egypt, India, and a number of other countries were cast back to a time before broadband today when two key internet cables under the Mediterranean Sea were cut off, causing a massive cyber-slowdown, as The World’s Clark Boyd reports.