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A fleet of Google's robotic cars has been tested more than 200,000 miles over highways and city streets. And Nevada has finalized rules that give special driving permits to the self-driving cars.

Chipmaker Intel made Silicon Valley possible. But now the company is searching for a new identity — and business stream. As consumers abandon PCs, the CEO is looking toward an untested area.

People who rely most on their smartphones to get online, often deal more frequently with service interruptions, because of financial hardship and data caps.

A campaign is underway to repair former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno's legacy after a child sex abuse scandal involving former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky tarnished his image.

After the earthquake struck, they began using social media to find out the extent of the damage, who needs help — even where aid groups are setting up shop.

Airs Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV

The company says the feature will help set priorities for a user's inbox and ease up that sense of information overload. Google says people who used the new system in its testing phase saved about a week's worth of time over the course of a year.

The measure, which now goes to the Senate, would require the National Security Agency to get permission before snooping through phone metadata. But critics say the bill doesn't go far enough.

A searchable database of more than 500 billion words from millions of books published over the past four centuries is now online. Researchers say the tool is a powerful way to study cultural change.

Airs Monday, September 21, 2015 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV