Category: Technology & Science

Three popular services that allow users in China to view otherwise-censored content have experienced outages over the past few days, a sign of increasing government efforts to limit what Chinese users can read on the Internet. Sisi Wei reports.

Obama hailed the benefits of an open Internet in his State of the Union address. Here’s what it is and how he’s trying to make it happen.

Jill Rettberg explores the meaning of Instagram filters, smartphone apps that write diaries for you, and the ways in which governments and commercial entities create their own representations of people from the digital traces they leave behind as they go through their lives.

Telescopes are now discovering Earth-size planets throughout the galaxy, but an astronomer at Berkeley explains why that doesn’t mean they are habitable. Eric Petigura writes.

An online advertising clearinghouse relied on by Google, Yahoo and Facebook is using controversial cookies that come back from the dead to track the web surfing of Verizon customers.

Racism is not only a social, cultural, political, and legal issue; it is also a health issue. Lindsay Kobayashi reports on the gap.

At stake is whether the Internet remains a democratic, user-powered network. Timothy Karr explains it all for you.

The Federal Communications Commission will vote on new rules and restrictions on net neutrality in February, officials said Friday. Nadia Prupis reports.

Nadia Prupis reports on the big hole in Signalling System 7.