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"Religious minorities face Real ID crackdown" | February 6, 2008
No television, no wedding or family photographs, and definitely no image of herself on her driver's license: That was the devout Christian life that Nebraska resident Frances Quaring was trying to lead.
CNET News.com 2008 Technology Voter's Guide
Featuring interviews with all the major presidential contenders on their technology-related views.
"Gonzales: NSA may tap 'ordinary' Americans' e-mail" | February 6, 2006
Agents operating a controversial National Security Agency surveillance program may have inadvertently spied on the e-mails and phone calls of Americans with no ties to terrorists, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Monday.
"FBI grapples with out of date computers" | July 14, 2006
"There's no mouse; there's no icon," the official told the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in July 2002, according to a recent government report. "There's no year 2000 look to it. It's all very keyboard-intensive."
"IRS trudges on with aging computers" | April 27, 2007
The Internal Revenue Service has been trying for years to upgrade its antiquated mainframe computers, which process Americans' tax returns by churning through millions of lines of assembly code written by hand in the early 1960s.
"Police agencies push for drone sky patrols" | August 9, 2007
Police and public safety agencies across the country are beginning to plot a future in which they can freely launch aerial drones that beam down footage of the scenes below.
"Does e-voting need paper trails?" | October 31, 2006
With endorsements for the paper-trail technique piled on by influential election reform advocates and even an ever-skeptical crowd of computer science academics, what's the hold-up?
"Supreme Court loosens patent 'obviousness' test" | April 30, 2007
A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruling Monday backed away from a decades-old legal test that high-tech firms argue has sparked an abundance of obvious patents.
"Behind Google's German courtroom battle" | Sept. 14, 2006
Google's free Web e-mail offering may be available for correspondence in 40 languages, but efforts at worldwide expansion using the moniker "Gmail" continue to face complications.
Reporter's Notebook: "A View from the BlackBerry courtroom" | Feb. 24, 2006
Whoever thought that something as dry as a patent infringement lawsuit could become a spectator sport?
"Critics say antiporn effort could affect wrong sites" | June 20, 2006
Photographer Ron Hildebrand believes the black-and-white nude portraits displayed in his online gallery are "more sensual than sexual."
Corporate employee blogs: Lawsuits waiting to happen? | March 26, 2008
A recent libel lawsuit filed against Cisco Systems over one of its employees' personal blogs could spur companies, many of which have encouraged workers to share their writings publicly, to reconsider how much latitude to give them.
"Information overload in the Facebook-ABC presidential debates?" | January 6, 2008
MANCHESTER, N.H.--It sounded like a good idea at first: let Internet users be part of, virtually speaking, the Democratic and Republican presidential debates on Saturday evening by posting comments on a special Facebook message board.
Smithsonian Magazine
Oh Deer! | Oct. 2005
Contraception shows promise, but other measures may be needed to lessen the toll that the deer boom is having on forests and suburbs.
Chief Lobbyist | June 2005
He made little headway with President Grant, but Red Cloud won over the 19th century's greatest photographers.
Footloose | August 2005
The image of Bruce McCandless' spacewalk two decades ago still amazes. It was the first untethered walk ever—and was among the last.
St. Petersburg Times
"Storm's zap won't keep doctor inside" | July 8, 2004
When lightning struck Dr. Leif Lange in his barn, he didn't see a flash. He heard three things in quick succession: the crack of the bolt, the buzzing of electricity and the sizzling of his black pig's flesh.
"Boy dies in fire despite heroic effort" | June 24, 2004
It sounded like children playing with firecrackers.
"Man found shot to death in Dade City home" | July 16, 2004
During an evening walk Wednesday, Frank and Rethel Burns heard two shots ring out near the red brick home where their cousin lived.
"Waves of partiers roll into Livestock" | April 24, 2004
It's billed as "The Greatest Show on Dirt," and the dust already is flying. It floats up from the trucks, cars and RVs that creep along the sloped, grassy shoulder on U.S. 301.
"Lucky Pasco looks south, east" | August 15, 2004
As life eases back to normal, residents who suffered no damage from Charley are sending empathy and supplies to victims in other Florida communities.
National Public Radio
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