Technology

Volvo Prototype Can Run on Five Fuels

Staff / Truthdig Jun 14, 2006 The prototype car offers one more demonstration that the only thing shackling us to gas-powered cars is the inability of our lawmakers to stop taking money from Big Oil and Big Auto. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Media Descends on YearlyKos

Staff / Truthdig Jun 10, 2006 The DailyKos-hosted annual blogger conference, taking place this weekend in Las Vegas, is attracting a gaggle of traditional-media reporters--not to mention politicians, fundraisers and political operatives. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Detox Center Opening For Video Game Addicts

Staff / Truthdig Jun 10, 2006 The center is opening in Amsterdam. Surreally, some players' withdrawal symptoms include shaking and sweating when they look at a computer console. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

House Rejects Net Neutrality

Staff / Truthdig Jun 10, 2006 The Nation's John Nichols explains how perilously close the U.S. government is to making a toll road out of the Internet--on which only the rich websites will be able to pay to have their content load move fastest. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

NSA Wants to Mine Data From Social Networking Sites

Staff / Truthdig Jun 9, 2006 The National Security Agency is funding research into ways to collect personal information from social networking websites like MySpace and Friendster, according to New Scientist magazine. The agency reportedly aims to combine the information with details from banking, retail and property records, allowing the NSA to build extensive, all-embracing personal profiles of individuals. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Net Neutrality Gets Boost From House Panel

Staff / Truthdig May 26, 2006 The panel recommended a version of the Net neutrality bill that would bar telecom companies from charging premium fees for Web companies that sell video and other content. This is far from a full victory, but it's a step in that direction. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Invisibility Cloaks in Sight

Staff / Truthdig May 26, 2006 New advances in "metamaterials," which change how light bends around an object, could make Harry Potter's invisibility cloaks reality, The Guardian reports. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

World’s Largest Airliner Has Bar, Lounge, Shopping Area

Staff / Truthdig May 19, 2006 The Airbus A380, the world's largest airliner, touched down for the first time at London's Heathrow Airport on May 18. It can carry 800 passengers, nearly 400 more than the Boeing 747. It has a lounge, fully reclining bed-chairs, a shopping area and a bar. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Telecom Companies Masquerading as Concerned Citizens

Staff / Truthdig May 16, 2006 Companies like AT&T and BellSouth are backing an organization claiming to be saving the Internet by keeping it free of "burdensome and unnecessary regulation." But that's nonsense. They're the ones that want to put toll lanes on the Internet. (These are the same companies that reportedly handed over America's phone records to the NSA.) Buzzflash sorts it out. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Porn Industry Beats Hollywood to Internet DVDs

Staff / Truthdig May 16, 2006 Pornography titan Vivid Entertainment will sell adult films through the Internet that can be burned to DVDs and watched on TVs. "Leave it to the porn industry once again to take the lead on this stuff," says a think-tank analyst. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Free the Internet: The Movie

Staff / Truthdig May 11, 2006 If you're disturbed by the thought of Internet service providers deciding which websites you can have access to, watch this short, entertaining and disturbing movie that crystalizes the battle now being waged over this issue in Washington and the blogosphere. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Hacker Gets Five Years in Prison

Staff / Truthdig May 9, 2006 The 20-year-old set out to damage computer networks and send massive amounts of spam. Any computer user who has ever been the victim of a virus, worm or Trojan horse shall be excused the schadenfreude he or she feels at the news of this lengthy prison sentence. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )