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Protesters gather in front of the FCC headquarters in Washington, D.C. to alert others to the need of an open Internet. The FCC is proposing rules on network neutrality, meaning Internet providers can't give a faster connection to those who can pay more.

FCC To Unveil Proposed Rules To Govern Internet Traffic

The Federal Communications Commission will vote Thursday to unveil its proposed rules and begin the process of debate. There will be 2 months for comment and then another 2 months for revision.

After Grant Hernandez, an undergraduate security researcher at the University of Central Florida, hacked Nest, he programmed it to riff off a favorite line from the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey."

Is Your Watch Or Thermostat A Spy? Cybersecurity Firms Are On It

The Internet can reside in almost anything inside your home, which heightens opportunities for hacking your personal privacy. Cybersecurity firms face the tall task of keeping you protected.

Taser International is now selling police departments the technology to store videos from body cameras.

As Police Body Cameras Increase, What About All That Video?

Police cams have suddenly become a big business. But the real money is in selling departments a way to store each day's video. Firms are offering easy uploads to the cloud but costs are bound to grow.

The seafloor spreads along tectonic ridges and faults, marked by the red dots overlaying this region of the Indian Ocean, Oct. 2, 2014.

San Diego Scientists Map Unseen Features Of Ocean Floor

Scientists are just now mapping thousands of underwater mountains on the seafloor for the first time.

From left, Shams Juma of Quantifye, Adrian Avendano, Vice President of the Mexican Global Network, Jason Liu from DFW Excellerator, and Hubert Zajicek, founder of Health Wildcatters.

Texas Entrepreneurs Want More Work Visas

Nearly a quarter of Texas business owners are foreign-born. These entrepreneurs brought in a total income of $10 billion in 2010. Still, immigration is a sticking point, and some Texas entrepreneurs are pushing for more high-skilled visas.

Online Symptom Checkers Can't Replace The Real-Life Doc Just Yet

More than a third of U.S. adults turn to the Internet for help diagnosis their illnesses themselves. But how trustworthy are the results?

AMERICA'S TEST KITCHEN FROM COOK'S ILLUSTRATED: Almond Cake And British Scones

Airs Saturday, January 31, 2015 at 2 p.m. on KPBS TV

Rangers practice their riding skills at Zakouma National Park in Chad. The park has four mounted ranger teams because horses are the only way to effectively patrol during the wet season, when the elephants head to drier land outside the park.

GPS Trackers In Fake Elephant Tusks Reveal Ivory Smuggling Route

Some 30,000 African elephants die each year as a result of poaching. Journalist Bryan Christy wanted to see where their tusks were going, so he ordered fake tusks and fitted them with trackers.

Taneka Armstrong, 20, is learning about different aspects of the tech industry — from coding to sales — through the nonprofit group Hack the Hood.

Next To Silicon Valley, Nonprofits Draw Youth Of Color Into Tech

Programs like Hack the Hood try to help young people in Oakland, Calif., find a gateway into the high-tech industry — and out of "dead-end" jobs.

A 2012 installation in the small Italian village of Corigliano d'Otranto celebrates the philosophies of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle and their search for a better way of life.

The Truth Is, Philosophy Rules Your World

A remarkable new book brings Plato back to teach us how to make our lives matter and why philosophy is here to stay. Commentator Marcelo Gleiser can't recommend it enough.

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