More than a half a billion people in Sub-Saharan Africa don't have access to electricity. But now, a non-profit organization that has had success with its wind-up radio is using the same technology to turn on the lights. The World's Technology correspondent Clark Boyd reports.

The social networking site Facebook was created for college students in the United States, but is now a hit in other countries as well. Host Aaron Schachter speaks with reporter Borzou Daragahi in Beirut about the popularity of Facebook among young people in Lebanon.

President Bush delivered a speech on US-Cuba relations today. In it he proposed a plan to help increase computer and internet access for Cubans. The World's technology correspondent Clark Boyd reports.

New legislation from the European Union is aimed at shutting down websites that promote terrorism. But as The World's technology correspondent Clark Boyd reports, the plan is fraught with legal and technical complications.

Computer hackers are taking advantage of events in Burma to potentially wreak havoc on your computer. The World's Technology Correspondent Clark Boyd explains.

The reclusive military regime in Burma -- or Myanmar -- can't stop the news of protests there from spreading around the world. Information technology like the Internet and cell phones are helping Burmese pro-democracy activists get the word out. That wasn't the case in 1988 -- the last time there was a pro-democracy uprising in Burma. The World's Technology Correspondent Clark Boyd reports.

More than 200,000 people died and nearly 50,000 went missing during Guatemala's 30-year civil war. The country's brutal dictatorship kept records of it all. But no one knew that until the archives were accidentally recovered just two years ago. Now a massive project is underway to digitize millions of documents from Guatemala's darkest days. The World's Clark Boyd reports

The One Laptop Per Child Project set out to put a laptop computer in the hands of some 2 billion children in the developing world. But the project faces challenges that have raised the price of each laptop. That's why it announced a "two-for-one" offer today. Cyrus Farivar explains.

Germany, Australia, France, Britain, and the United States say they're all victims of similar cyber-attacks. Chinese hackers have recently broken into their government or military computer systems. The World's Technology Correspondent Clark Boyd has the story.

Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Wired magazine reporter Noah Shachtman about the impact of IEDs or "improvised explosive devices" on coalition forces in Iraq. The makeshift bombs have caused about 40 percent of American deaths during the war. Now troops have made progress in trying to derail the devices.