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Couple Embarks on a Crowdsourced Road Trip

This Memorial Day holiday weekend in the U.S. kicks off the start of the summer travel season. You might have a trip or two meticulously planned and carefully entered into your Google Calendar for the summer vacation months.

Google Planning Wireless Networks To Connect The Next 1B People - WSJ

If Google had its way, everyone in the world would be on the Internet, using Google services. To bring that goal to fruition, Google is reportedly working to build cellular networks in Africa and Southeast Asia to help bring hundreds of millions of people online for the first time.

Holder Should Demand Feds Get a Warrant to Read Our E-mail

Attorney General Eric Holder is on record the Department of Justice supports legislation that generally would require the government to get a probable-cause warrant to read your e-mail.

A Best-Selling Phone? It’s Not Just a Good Phone

Making a good phone isn't enough to compete in the brutal handset market.

Just ask HTC, BlackBerry, Nokia and just about any company that isn't Apple.

Carl Zimmer's "The Girl Who Turned ToBone"

In The Atlantic, science writer extraordinaire Carl Zimmer wrote a fascinating long article about fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), a rare medical disorder in which the sufferer grows a second skeleton.

Guatemalan ex-president extradited to U.S. on money laundering charges

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo was extradited on Friday to the United States to face money laundering charges, the U.S. embassy in Guatemala said.

Senator urges 'extreme caution' on SoftBank -Sprint deal

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An influential U.S. senator expressed strong concerns on Friday about Japanese company SoftBank Corp's plan to buy 70 percent of Sprint Nextel , warning it could expose the United States to Chinese cyber attacks.

U.S. audit regulator reaches deal with China on document access

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. regulators will get access to Chinese companies' audit documents under a deal announced on Friday, opening the way to probes of bungled audits after a two-year stand-off between China and the United States.

Another Memorial Day in this endless war Amy Goodman

As we pause to remember those who died for our freedoms, we are faced with the possibility of a 'forever war'

In a remarkable but little-noticed oversight hearing last week, the Senate Armed Services Committee looked at "The Law of Armed Conflict, the Use of Military Force, and the 2001 Aut

Gawker's bid to give $200,000 to Canadian drug dealers hits slight snag

The owners of video allegedly showing Toronto's mayor smoking crack go missing in the middle of crowdfunding campaign

The effort by news site Gawker to bust Toronto mayor Rob Ford for allegedly smoking crack is crack journalism work. Toronto is Canada's biggest city.