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When you hear the word drone, images of warfare or high-tech surveillance come to mind. But the former editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine and a young Tijuana programmer have a different idea. They believe drones will revolutionize our daily lives.

Young people between the ages of 18 and 35 spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year. NPR asked some in this group how brands and corporations can get their attention.

The tech industry has been lobbying hard for an update to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the 1986 law governing online privacy.

People turn to Google for answers about how to do everything from changing a tire to putting on makeup. An entire industry has sprung up to make sure its sites — often with content dominated by ads — show up prominently in search results. But Google struck back, changing its formula to de-emphasize these so-called "content farms."

Saturday, March 29, 2014 at 1:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / On Demand. Joe and Patti travel to Decorah, Iowa where the Heritage Farm houses one of the world’s 1,400 seed banks and helps celebrate their 35th anniversary.

Adams managed to turn his failure at office work into a gigantic success — a syndicated comic strip about a hapless, cubicle-bound engineer. In his new book, How To Fail At Almost Everything And Still Win Big, Adams offers some sage advice such as: "Goals are for losers."

A federal website set to go live Tuesday will disclose drug and device companies' ties to doctors. The release marks a milestone, but the information will be incomplete and may be misleading.

The dazzling array of food options at the Googleplex campus in Mountain View, Calif., -- 25 cafes at last count -- is the much-cited example of tech world food perks. And you can peruse the menus at Airbnb and Facebook to get a taste of an equally high bar for not just free food, but worldly food that will delight and fuel employees to work better and harder.

High tech firms have been offering bounties to security researchers to find holes and bugs in their software, but these reward programs haven't drawn much interest from major banks.

New websites ending in "health," "doctor" and "clinic" will soon start appearing online. But anyone can buy those names. Some public health researchers worry that they'll purvey bogus medical advice.