Vinton G. Cerf

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The Internet has always reached shuttles in orbit, but they are only 400 kilometres from Earth. Now NASA and Google have successfully created an Internet connection millions of kilometres into space that just might someday...

UK to fine clients of prostitutes

By OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT London Nov. 19: Britain on Wednesday unveiled plans to tighten its vice laws by prosecuting men who have sex with women who have been trafficked or forced into prostitution. Sex buyers who commit...

Anti-Matter Created By Laser At Livermore

NASA Tests Deep-Space Network Modeled On the Internet - by kdawson (35% noise) View Skip hcg50a writes “NASA has successfully tested the first deep space communications network modeled on the Internet. Working as part of a...

IRS hires its first-ever CTO; who will be Obama's?

Terence V. (Terry) Milholland started a new job as the Internal Revenue Service's chief technology officer on Monday. No worries; he's already been CTO of organizations handling your money. Milholland, a graduate of the...

Net neutrality

Net neutrality is the principle that data packets on the Internet should be moved impartially, without regard to content, destination or source. Net neutrality is sometimes referred to as the "First Amendment of the Internet."...

NASA Successfully Tests Interplanetary Internet

NASA and Vint Cerf (Google VP, co-creator of the internet, nerd legend) have been working on updating our antiquated radio communications system for space for nearly a decade now, and a recent successful test represents the...

Obama's Fireside Chats Hit YouTube

With what The Guardian called "an ultra-modern echo of Franklin D. Roosevelt's regular folksy radio broadcasts," President Elect Barack Obama has launched a weekly address to the nation — via YouTube. Like Roosevelt's "fireside...

Mr. MySpace Goes to Washington

to continue the dialogue. Consider these challenges: The Obama campaign, which spent $8 million on online advertising, set high expectations by tapping mobile, social media, e-mail, and online video to engage supporters. To...

What is Google actually good at?

What is Google actually good at?SCALEWe live in an information age, and it's great to have lots information, but working with massive (practically unimaginable) amounts of information is incredibly hard, even Vint Cerf couldn't...

Role of Federal Tech Czar to Be Defined by Obama

On the campaign trail, Barack Obama said he would appoint the nation's first chief technology officer who would, according to his Web site, help federal agencies use technology "to make government work better." Or would the...