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Etherized
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Clark Boyd has news and views from the wired and wireless worlds.
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New Digs
Just a quick note for everyone. The blog has a new address. From now on, all tech-a-licious updates can be found at the new home of the Etherized blog on Discovery. That would be here. Be sure to check out the totally awesome redesign of the whole Di...
The Internet: Lordy, Lordy Look Who\'s Forty...
It's not often that I get to celebrate a technology that is, fundamentally, the heart and soul of the day job over at PRI's The World. We're talking existential here, folks. The Internet turned 40 last week. That's UCLA's Leonard Kleinrock, with the ...
Wide Angle: Scientific Data Collection Goes Mobile
Nearly seven years of covering developments in global technology have taught me two things. First, I remain woefully, albeit sometimes blissfully, ignorant of all the great things that people are doing with technology across the globe. (That's O...
Finns Get the Right to Universal Broadband Access
You may have read, right here at Discovery, that Finland's just passed a landmark law that gives all of its citizens (yes, even the ones who live in the middle of snow-covered forests miles from nowhere, or are sitting in......
Wide Angle: Geo-engineering and the Water Cycle
When Mt. Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines in 1991, the resulting effect on global climate was staggering. The eruption sent so many millions tons of debris and aerosols into the stratosphere that it, quite literally, blocked the sun. Despite the ...
Wide Angle: Genetically Engineering a Virus-Resistant Grapevine
Wine lovers, take note of this research. You may not know it, but one of your greatest enemies is something called the grapevine fanleaf virus (GFLV). The results of the virus aren't pretty on the eye (deformed, yellow leaves), or......

