Technology

Defenders of Ted ‘Series of Tubes’ Stevens: He’s Really Tech-Savvy

Staff / Truthdig Jul 15, 2006 Sen Ted Stevens' near-incoherent speech before Congress last week about Internet fundamentals ("It's a series of tubes") quickly made him a national laughingstock But his defenders say Stevens simply used imprecise language, and that he really knows his Net stuff You decide: Defenders speak out Jon Stewart clip Techno remix of Stevens' speech. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

AOL Said, ‘If You Leave Me I’ll Do Something Crazy’

Staff / Truthdig Jul 4, 2006 Listen to the hilarious "Today Show" appearance of a guy who nearly had to sacrifice his firstborn child to get an AOL customer service representative to cancel his account. Times article on him Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Net Neutrality Suffers Setback in Senate Vote

Staff / Truthdig Jun 29, 2006 The Senate Commerce Committee fell a single vote short of passing an amendment to safeguard the free and open Internet as momentum builds toward a full Senate vote on Net neutrality. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Save the Internet (Today)!

Staff / Truthdig Jun 28, 2006 The Senate is due to vote Wednesday on the Net Neutrality bill. Click here and CALL. YOUR. SENATOR. Otherwise, when AT&T is deciding which content streams fastest to your computer, you'll have no one to blame but yourself. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Google Wants to Listen to Your TV to Place Ads

Staff / Truthdig Jun 18, 2006 OK, now this is getting just downright creepy: Google has apparently tested a system that allows your computer to "listen" to your TV, recognize what program you're watching, and then serve up ads related to that show. Freaked out? Check out Truthdig contributor (and Google book author) Mark Malseed on Google and privacy. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

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 )