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Care for some Raspberry Pi?

By Clark Boyd

Technology Podcast 358: This week, we give you a slice of Raspberry Pi, a new $35 computer that's just gone on sale. Wash it down with LuminAID, the inflatable, rechargeable solar lantern! more »

Celebrating Everyday Tech Genius

By Clark Boyd

Technology Podcast 345: This week, we give you a taste of a new exhibit at London's Science Museum that takes a look at the tech genius behind everyday things like bubble wrap and rubber bands. And speaking of taste, we also have an item on a Danish effort to build a better tongue. more »

Tech Week in Review: May 20, 2011

By Clark Boyd

Blog 13: Amazon has announced that e-books are outselling paper books on its website for the first time ever. But does that mean you can get rid of your bookshelves? That's just one of the stories in Clark Boyd's roundup of great global tech stories you might have missed this week. more »

Tech Week in Review: May 13, 2011

By Clark Boyd

Blog 10: The first of our newly minted "Global Tech: Week in Review" posts, offering links to the top stories from the past week. We'll post it every Friday. This week, we take flight with the world's first completely solar-powered aircraft! more »

Tech Podcast: Social networks past, present and future

By Clark Boyd

Technology Podcast 316: Ah, a good old-fashioned wedding, organized entirely via Facebook and Twitter. In a special BBC series, we'll take a look at "The Secret History of Social Networking." We'll find out how social networks got started, and where they might be headed. more »

Tech Podcast: Delhi traffic cops turn to Facebook

By Clark Boyd

Technology Podcast 298: Traffic in Delhi, India can be, well, trying at times. The city's Traffic Police recently started up a Facebook page to give people the latest traffic reports. Turns out, Delhi drivers started using it to out other bad drivers! We've got that story and more in this week's Technology Podcast. (Photo: Enthusiast10) more »

Podcast: Monthly Tech Roundup 2.0

By Clark Boyd

Technology Podcast 297: In our monthly tech round-up, we talk about the latest developments in professor Sugata Mitra's Hole in the Wall project (pictured). Find out what happens when you let kids in a Delhi slum figure out a computer all by themselves. We also talk about Facebook's half-a-billion users, and about how you use technology to make sense... more »

Tech Podcast: World Cup matches go Lego

By Clark Boyd

Technology Podcast 293: If you love soccer, and you love Lego, then you're going to want to listen to this week's Tech Podcast. We've got an interview with Fabian Mortiz, a young German who is painstakingly recreating the highlights, and lowlights, of each World Cup match...in Lego. Plus, Estonia's "Johnny Appleseed" of free wi-fi, and some robots that want... more »

Tech Podcast: Digital genome goes underground

By Clark Boyd

Technology Podcast 289: In this week's technology podcast, we hear about how, and why, a team of archivists and technologists have buried our "digital genome" underneath a Swiss mountain. You'll also hear about Google's Europe woes, and about the Pakistani government's decision to deny access to Facebook. Plus, two homages: one to the man who invented the ATM, and... more »

WTP 262: Moon crash, Peruvian fog nets, Nobel Prize in physics, and Trongs!

By Clark Boyd

[Technology Podcast 262: A listener-centered episode this week. Tech Podcast listener and inventor Eric Zimmerman shares his low-tech solution to a high-tech problem; namely, how do manage to answer your cell phone when you're eating buffalo wings and your fingers are covered in sauce? Trongs. Also, NASA crashes into the moon (on purpose), and Peru tries to harvest water... more »