Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant are the British comedy team responsible for the hit TV comedy, "The Office." They are now winning new fame on the internet as podcasters. The World's Clark Boyd recently chatted with the duo about their latest endeavor.

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Several major American companies including Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft are having to answer for abiding by the Chinese government's restrictions of the Internet. Host Lisa Mullins gets the story from Internet governance expert Jonathan Zittrain.

How can a farmer in Kenya get financing from an American lender to invest in new cows? The World Wide Web is making it happen. The World's technology correspondent Clark Boyd explains.

Today's briefing on the NSA wiretapping was not the first time the executive and legislative branches have gone toe-to-toe on domestic surveillance programs. The World's technology correspondent Clark Boyd looks back at the history of wiretapping in the United States.

Lego building blocks joined the computer generation with Mindstorms. Now Lego is taking its toy to a new level. And Lego hackers helped develop it. Brandan Koerner of Wired Magazine tells host Marco Werman how it happened.

Venezuela is the first Latin American country to tap into Open Source. That's computer software that can be freely shared, modified, and improved by users. President Hugo Chavez has mandated that all public agencies begin using Open Source by next year. The World's Ruxandra Guidi has details.

Some of the literary world's most treasured classics are now downloadable for free from the internet. Reporter Cyrus Farivar has the story.

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The NBA is hoping to attract more Brazilian fans by live streaming basketball games to a web portal in Brazil. Host Marco Werman has details.

Greek officials are investigating a serious case of phone tapping. Most of it occurred during the Olympics Games in Athens in August, 2004. The BBC's Richard Galpin is following the story from Athens.

In his speech last night, President Bush announced an initiative to increase the use of ethanol as an alternate source of energy. A lot could be learned from Brazil. The country has had an ethanol program for the last 30 years. Wall Street Journal reporter David Luhnow has written about the program and speaks with host Lisa Mullins about what America could learn from Brazil's experience.