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Show summary: San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi tour a home that gets 40 percent of its power from the wind. After the homeowner installed a 45-foot-tall turbine in her backyard, not only was she the talk of the neighborhood, but her home was named one of the 12 greenest houses in the world, according to the Discovery Channel.
Category: News
April 11, 2008Show summary: To protest the Beijing Olympic torch's visit to San Francisco Wednesday, people came with varying perspectives and varying gadgets to capture the moment. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi reports on how technology is changing the way people demonstrate.
Category: News
April 9, 2008Show summary: There's some real science to throwing a ball and knocking it out of the park. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi spoke with players from the Oakland Athletics about throwing and hitting, and to a scientist who confirmed that yes indeed, they'd play better if they had paid attention to their physics class.
Category: News
April 9, 2008Show summary: The climbing robot from Stanford University doesn't have sticky feet at all. Instead, Stickybot relies on gecko-inspired technology to scale walls. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi visits with the little creature and learns that one day this tech may also enable us to climb like Spider-Man...err, Gecko-Man.
Category: News
April 1, 2008Show summary: Microsoft and Google scuffle over Yahoo, the gender-income gap widens and Super Bowl ads on MySpace: What's your favorite?
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February 4, 2008