News - Technology
2/9/2013
Mars rover finishes first drilling project
Posted 11:13 AM 2/9/2013 by Matt Stafford
LOS ANGELES (AP) - To scientists' excitement, the Curiosity rover has completed its first drilling on Mars and is preparing to analyze a pinch of powdery rock. Images beamed back to Earth overnight showed a fresh drill hole next to a test hole the rover made earlier. The (More)
2/7/2013
EU pushes plans for safer, more secure Internet
Posted 8:55 AM 2/7/2013 by Lauren Molenburg
BRUSSELS (AP) - EU officials are pushing a plan to make the Internet safer - more resistant to cyberattacks, freer from cybercrime and safer for children to use. The proposal unveiled Thursday would require each of the European Union's 27 nations to designate an authority to prevent (More)
2/6/2013
PREVIEW: Are violent video games safe for kids?
Posted 12:05 PM 3/18/2013 by Matt Stafford
A mental health debate continues across the country, and a piece to it is the repeat exposure to violence through video games. Do violent video games increase a person's aggression?
News 5 spoke with some moms that think the violent video game discussion may be going a bit too far; they do (More)
UK's space age Antarctic base can slide across ice
2/5/2013
UK: Surveillance devices to monitor Web traffic
Posted 10:24 AM 2/5/2013 by Lauren Molenburg
LONDON (AP) - The U.K. plans to install an unspecified number of spy devices along the country's telecommunications network to monitor Britons' use of overseas services such as Facebook and Twitter, according to a report published Tuesday by Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee. (More)...
K-12 aviation program orders flight simulator
Dell in $24.4B founder-led deal to go private
2/3/2013
Energy industry developing new fracking fluids to ease environmental concerns
Posted 11:17 AM 2/4/2013 by Matt Stafford
PITTSBURGH (AP) - The oil and gas industry is trying to ease environmental concerns by developing nontoxic fluids for the drilling process known as fracking. But it's not clear whether the fluids will be widely embraced by drilling companies. Fracking has made it possible (More)
2/1/2013
Teenage hacker sentenced in UK for cyber-attacks
Posted 8:37 AM 2/1/2013 by Lauren Molenburg
LONDON (AP) - A British court has sentenced a teenage hacker to youth rehabilitation after he and other members of the Anonymous movement carried out cyber-attacks targeting financial sites like PayPal and Visa. Jake Birchall had admitted conspiring to impair the operation of (More)
1/30/2013
Critical, long-overdue BlackBerry makeover arrives
Posted 8:58 AM 1/30/2013 by Lauren Molenburg
TORONTO (AP) - Research In Motion is changing its name to BlackBerry as it rolls out a new version of the smartphone after lengthy delays that saw the company fall behind its rivals in the mobile computing market. RIM CEO Thorsten Heins announced the company's new name Wednesday in (More)
1/29/2013
Apple unveils iPad with more memory
Posted 8:54 AM 1/29/2013 by Lauren Molenburg
CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) - Apple says it will sell an iPad with more memory than the current models available. Apple Inc. said Tuesday that the new, full-size model comes with 128 gigabytes of memory, up from 64 gigabytes. Nothing else has changed, so it will remain a fourth-generation (More)
1/27/2013
CU mulls putting select courses online for free
Posted 11:35 AM 1/27/2013 by Matt Stafford
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - The University of Colorado is weighing a contract with a company that allows universities to offer free online courses that are available to hundreds of thousands of students worldwide. CU spokesman Ken McConnellogue tells The Daily Camera the university will (More)
1/23/2013
Google fielding more legal demands for user data
Posted 8:18 AM 1/23/2013 by Lauren Molenburg
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Google says it is fielding more legal demands from governments around the world seeking to learn more about the people using its Internet search engine, email and other services. The latest snapshot of law enforcement agencies' efforts to extract personal (More)
1/21/2013
NASA's older Mars rover notches another milestone
Posted 8:17 AM 1/21/2013 by Lauren Molenburg
LOS ANGELES (AP) - All eyes are on the NASA rover Curiosity. It is poised to begin drilling into a Martian rock soon. There's less attention being paid to another Mars rover - Opportunity. The older rover is quietly embarking on its tenth year of exploration. Compared to (More)
1/18/2013
Technology proposal clears 1st CO legislative test
Posted 8:41 AM 1/18/2013 by Lauren Molenburg
DENVER (AP) - A proposal to attract more tech companies and their high-paying jobs to Colorado has passed its first test in the state Legislature. A House committee voted 8-3 Thursday in favor of a bill to spend as much as $20 million a year to lure jobs in conjunction with existing (More)
1/17/2013
Amazon makes MP3 catalog available to iPhone users
Posted 12:32 PM 1/17/2013 by Eric Ross
SEATTLE (AP) - Amazon says iPhone and iPod Touch users will be able to buy music from its digital store for the first time beginning Thursday. Amazon.com Inc. said Thursday that its MP3 library has 22 million songs available. Steve Boom, vice president of Amazon Music (More)
1/16/2013
Colorado astronaut headed back to space station
Posted 8:57 AM 1/16/2013 by Lauren Molenburg
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - Colorado astronaut Steve Swanson is headed back to the International Space Station. Swanson will serve as flight engineer on a joint mission with two Russian cosmonauts next year. According to Steamboat Today ( (More)
1/15/2013
NRA shooting game no longer for preschoolers
Posted 3:43 PM 1/15/2013 by Lauren Molenburg
WASHINGTON (AP) - A new shooting game for mobile devices tied to the National Rifle Association is no longer being labeled suitable for preschoolers. "NRA: Practice Range" changed its age recommendation Tuesday from 4 years and up to at least 12 years of age, with an added warning that the game (More)
Russia plans unmanned moon mission in 2015
1/14/2013
Google's ultrafast Internet draws startups to KC
Posted 10:05 AM 1/14/2013 by Lauren Molenburg
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) - Google's new superfast Internet connection is creating a tech startup culture in Kansas City. Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas City, Kan., were picked as the first cities to get Google's new fiber-optic network that's capable of reaching speeds far greater than (More)
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