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Airs Saturday, August 24, 2013 at 8 a.m. & 5:30 p.m. on KPBS TV

Airs Wednesday, November 14, 2012 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV

It only took an hour for Mat Honan's digital life to be destroyed. First, his Google account was taken over and deleted, then his Twitter feed was used to broadcast a racist and homophobic tirade. Then hackers erased all the data on his iPhone, iPad and MacBook. He lost all the photos of his one-year-old daughter.

Can your iPhone put you to sleep with a lullaby? Or play something upbeat when you’re jogging? Sure, if you ask it to. But a UCSD professor is teaching computers to know what you want to hear based on what you are doing.

Airs Monday, September 22, 2014 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

Children playing on phones or using computers eat less junk food than those watching TV, a study finds. Maybe it's the commercials. Or maybe it's just hard to pick up a chip while tapping away.

Airs Monday, September 8, 2014 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

A World Bank forecast was based on purchasing power parity, an estimate of the cost of living in a particular country. But that isn't the only way to measure the size of an economy.

Airs Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

By testing for radiation, detectives showed that wine bottles purportedly from Thomas Jefferson's collection were fake. And with wine fraud rising, authentication is getting even more sophisticated.