GLOBAL WARMING IMPACTS WIDESPREAD, U.N. PANEL SAYS

The second part of a four-part report from the United Nations finds global warming has already had a widespread effect and the problem will become increasingly difficult to manage. Report co-author Michael Oppenheimer joins the News Hub with the key takeaways. Photo: NASA.

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Thursday, April 3, 2014

Amazon unveils new Fire TV streaming video box

Amazon.com is officially entering the streaming video settop box competition. The online retailer-turned tech company and content provider announced its new Amazon Fire TV product today at an event in New York. The $99 is available for order now on Amazon.com. The 0.7-inch thin WiFi-supporting settop box streams 1080P high definition and connects to your TV via HDMI. It comes with a remote that lets you use voice to search for content; available separately is a $39.99 controller for playing video games. "Tiny box, huge specs, tons of content,...

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Mozilla under fire for new CEO’s anti-gay past

It’s been a rough week for Mozilla. Seven days after naming its new CEO, the Mountain View-based corporation best known for developing the popular web browser Firefox has yet to put out the fires it developed for placing Brendan Eich at the company’s helm. Though Eich’s professional background could color anyone impressed (he created JavaScript, one of the most popular programming languages on the Web, and co-founded mozilla.org), his personal...