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This is a helicopter on steroids. It has four rotor blades, two cameras and can be flown over a Wifi by an iPad, iPod Touch or iPhone but it has a huge learning curve.  2 minutes

Is that video safe to upload if it’s not of you? Shelly Palmer of Media30dotcom discusses some surprising dos and don’ts of putting content online and even some legal ramifications.  5 minutes

Erik Barnett, Immigration & Custom Enforcement (ICE) Senior Counselor, tells CSPAN’s "The Communicators" about ICE's new online anti-piracy campaign and its impact. 27 minutes

Last week, CNET news covered Steve Jobs unveiling the new Apple TV, which gets a qualified yes, and new iPods. Plus, Google takes over your inbox ... in a good way?  5 minutes

TGIF:  From information overload, not knowledge overload, and the effects to increasing malware and is Google spying on everyone?  5 minutes

Jesse Schell, CEO of Schell Games, describes the current relationship between advertisers and the video game industry, predicting what he calls "advergaming" and powerful virtual economies.  5 minutes

Wanted posters and mug shots on Facebook?  What are the pros and cons?  CNN’s Ali Velshi and Media30dotcom’s Shelly Palmer discuss how new tech creates new activities and the value or not.  4 minutes

Well-known Internet analyst Omar Wasow, who also tutored Oprah Winfrey for 12 weeks on TV, shares a journey in a TEDx Boston, starting with DonkeyKong and explores aspects of the technology space. 6 minutes

Samsung teases its Galaxy Tab, Apple is expected to launch new products, Google Street View irks the French, a look at a corporate data center, Windows 95 is 15 and explore the AR Drone helicopter. 7 minutes

TGIF: New York Times Technology Editor David Pogue evaluates the state of a popular computer dictation software which shows the progress, or not, of speech recognition technology.  Keep typing?  3 minutes

Game Special: Meet Milo, a hotly anticipated video game for Microsoft's Kinect controller. Like a real 11-year-old, the virtual boy recognizes and responds differently to different people.  15 minutes

Game Special: Jesse Schell, CEO and Creative Director of Schell Games, imagines a future where every aspect of daily life is integrated like a video game. Ten points for eating cereal? 8 minutes

Game Special: Facebook and Twitter built a "social layer" over the real world. TEDxBoston presents the next layer: the "game layer," behavior-steering game dynamics to reshape education and commerce. 15 minutes

Facebook introduces a location based service, Twitter creates the Tweet Button, Intel plans to buy security vendor McAfee, Apple is readying a new tablet similar to its iPad, robot news and more.  7 minutes

How do you truly test a device that beams your coordinates into space and dispatches a rescue squad to your exact location? That's exactly what Wired editor Joe Brown did.  The results? Find out.  2 minutes

An expert, Sr VP for Edelman Digital, David Armano, applies his expertise in social media and business strategy across multiple clients such as eBay, BlackBerry, and Twitter to name a few. His insights?  16 minutes

Food for Thought: Harry McCracken, Editor of Technologizer is interviewed by O’Reilly Media at the recent Web 2.0 Summit about the trends of tech and the impact.  5 minutes

Jesse Schell, CEO and Creative Director of Schell Games, applies Gartner's hype cycle to iPad consumer reaction -- from inflated expectations, to disillusionment, to finding its niche as a couch companion. 5 minutes

The HP scandal, Dell and its Streak tablet, more rumors about the iPhone and Verizon, Samsung’s portable 3D Blu-Ray player, South Korean police raid Google's offices, Skype files for IPO and more. 6 minutes

Wired chats with the cast of Tron: Legacy to hear about the streamlined, technology-laced costume designs created for the highly anticipated film.  3 minutes

Actor and activist Richard Dreyfuss worries that technologies have removed time from our collective decision-making process saying we no longer contemplate or change our minds, which could be fatal. 4 minutes

CBS News reports on how wannabe stars can turn a YouTube video into a record deal, taking grade school singers to 30 million YouTube views to Hollywood and more. 3 minutes

The sequel to the critically acclaimed "Batman: Arkham Asylum" is announced, Saudia Arabia shuts off BlackBerry service overnight, Apple's next iPod Touch may get a front-facing camera and more. 2 minutes

RIM introduces a new BlackBerry, Acer unveils a netbook that runs both Android and Windows XP, Google pulls the plug on Google Wave, a NASA robot plans to tweet from space and more. 7 minutes

In light of the new Kindle, Jeff Bezos, Founder & CEO, Amazon.com, appeared on the Charlie Rose TV show to discuss features and defend the Kindle.  6 minutes

In a TEDtalks, oceanographer John Delaney is leading the team that is building an underwater network of high-def cameras and sensors that will turn the ocean into a global interactive lab. 24 minutes

Will the Droid X prove that bigger is better? Or, will the Incredible continue to live up to its name? Find out in another CNET Prizefight punch out. 4 minutes

Comic Con 2010 is more about high tech movies, TV shows and video games to make it a geek heaven.  How high tech has it gotten?  Find out.  5 minutes

For the last week of July, exclusive video of the Defcon badge, Amazon announces a new Kindle, Panasonic shows off a 3D camcorder, General Motors pricing for their hybrid electric car and more… 7 minutes

Shai Agassi, Founder and CEO of Better Place -- on a one man mission to turn all cars electric -- talks about his perspectives and predictions about the trillion dollar transportation opportunity.  3 minutes

An astonishing new computer interface reads its user's brainwaves, making it possible to control virtual objects, and even physical electronics, with mere thoughts.  What about its far-reaching applications? 14 minutes

CBSNews.com's Shira Lazar talks to Randi Zuckerberg from Facebook marketing about Facebook's $500 million users, the release of Facebook Stories, customer service issues and the future.  4 minutes

Learn how the website WikiLeaks collects and posts highly classified information from founder Julian Assange, reportedly sought for questioning by US authorities.  Contains graphic battle footage.  20 minutes

Amazon strikes an exclusive-to-Kindle deal with a gaggle of famous authors, YouTube revamps its music site, a two-seat yellow submarine could be yours for just $2 million and more. 3 minutes

At Inside Gaming Plus, Rod Fergusson Executive Producer of Gears of War discusses advances that have been made in Gears 3.  Even if not a gamer, this stuff is an impressive statement of our culture. 5 minutes

Andreas Weigend, former Chief Scientist for Amazon.com, discusses what he calls the "social data revolution" and reveals how the data is gained and used to manipulate your world.  4 minutes

The MyFord Touch driver connect technology demonstates advancements in voice recognition technology that will impact other industries.  In this case, more than 10,000 first-level commands are understood.  4 minutes

Who wins?  It's a Prizefight of epic proportions between the top two phones in the hearts and minds of tech heads worldwide. Can Apple's iPhone dethrone the current reigning champion, the HTC Evo 4G.  23 minutes

Scientist Carter Emmart has coordinated the efforts of scientists, artists and programmers for the last 12 years to build a complete 3D visualization of the universe. See a stunning TEDTalks tour now. 7 minutes

FCC Commissioner Michael Copps discusses the currents and cross-currents surrounding implementation of the National Broadband Plan and implications in both Washington DC and Silicon Valley.  60 minutes

Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior discusses building the next Internet and the role of cloud services, security, and more for new business models.  2 minutes

O’Reilly Media reviews the evolution of Web 2.0 and explores the future of successful co-operative growth in the face of threats or roles of giants such as Apple, Amazon, Facebook and more.  23 minutes

A TEDtalks and author Clay Shirky look at "cognitive surplus" and how the shared, online work we do is building a better, more cooperative world.  4 minutes

CNET’s Buzz Report for last week includes the app store hacking and billing, AT&T denies technology glitches, Apple says iPhone signal bars are fiction, and more.  5 minutes

Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows, judges the kind of intensive activity people engage in online and rewards or not for modes of thought.  2 minutes

An interview with a Wired Magazine writer about his classic book Hackers Heroes of the Computer Revolution reveals noteworthy hackers such as Gates and Wozniak and more fascinating history. 28 minutes

At a Wired Business Conference, Steve Case, co-founder of America Online, talks about his conversion from Twitter skeptic to power user with almost 350,000 followers. 3 minutes

At Velocity 2010, Tom Cook, Facebook Systems Engineer tells how the site “runs” day-to-day with a geeky focus on tech, processes for rapidly pushing out changes while keeping site stability and more. 40 minutes

What are CNET’s Brian Cooley’s top 5 reasons for skipping the iPhone 4?  Can you resist?  4 minutes

The iPhone 4 is a sleek, satisfying, and compelling device that keeps Apple strongly competitive in an increasingly crowded marketplace.  Learn all about it.  5 minutes

iPhone 4 launches to much fanfare, Verizon and Motorola offer some competition with the new Droid X, the MIT Media Lab develops a new technique to test for eyeglass prescriptions and more.  6 minutes

At E3 2010, Brian Tong of CNET takes a first look at the Nintendo 3DS, the company’s newest portable handheld 3-D (with no special glasses) gaming device.  2 minutes

On CSPAN’s The Communicators, Walter McCormick of U.S. Telecom and Computer and Communications Industry Assoc’s Cathy Sloan discuss the FCC's efforts to regulate broadband services  31 minutes

In a TEDtalks, YouTube's head of user experience, talks about how the site works with copyright holders and creators to foster a creative ecosystem where everybody wins. Lesson learned?  8 minutes

Get more than just shows and movies on your television. Watch videos on the Web, browse photos, play games, and more -- all in one seamless experience. 3 minutes

Last week’s news includes AT&T tries hard to ruin iPhone 4's pre-order week, Nintendo owns E3, Microsoft goes cultish, and Sony makes a Magic Wand.  5 minutes

Brian Sawyer, co-author of Best Android Apps, shares his 5 favorite apps.  You will either want to get them right away or, if you don’t own an Android, know what’s important in phone tech today.  4 minutes

Angel investor Shervin Pishevar argues that when it comes to gaming, devices like the iPad, iPhone, and Android are the wave of the future. Is the xBox really dead?  3 minutes

Boing Boing co-editor/sci-fi author Cory Doctorow explains the idea of his novel Little Brother and warns that future technologies may allow governments more control over their citizens than ever before. 12 minutes

Apple CEO Steve Jobs ended up dealing with glitches during Monday's iPhone 4 unveiling. The culprit? Find out and LOL.  Glitches can happen to anyone.  8 minutes

The CNET Buzz Report includes Facetime on iPhone 4 and how, if it makes Jonathan Ive look funny, the rest of us are doomed. Also: EVO sales, World Cup fever on the Internet and more! 6 minutes

Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales, The Cult of the Amateur author Andrew Keen, and Personal Democracy Forum co-founder Micah Sifry discuss the lack of civility online, especially the pitfall of anonymity. 5 minutes

Christopher “moot” Poole of 4chan, a controversial, uncensored online imageboard, describes how its users publicly hacked a mainstream website, raising questions about the power and price of anonymity. 11 minutes

Dell's Ron Garriques shows CNET's Ina Fried the Andorid-powered tablet due out in July.  3 Minutes

The band "OK Go" dreamed up the idea of a massive Rube Goldberg machine for their next music video -- and Adam Sadowsky tells about the labyrinthine creation that became a YouTube sensation. 12 minutes

Vendors at Computex in Taipei show off the latest tablets and e-readers, MSI shows a laptop with keyboard that can flip over to reveal a pen input pad, a skirt made of flash drives and much more.  8 minutes

Education, business, media, entertainment, all use push resources toward anticipated needs, but websites are undermining push by creating pull.  Learn how pull will change how we work, live and interact. 90 minutes

How the Ford virtual manufacturing lab uses motion capture technology and human modeling software to design jobs that are less physically stressful on workers.  2 minutes

Jeff Jonas of IBM Entity Analytics, warns against "Spear Phishing the Masses: When Open Data is Dark” and suggests some protective actions.  6 Minutes

Take a look at the HTC Evo 4G; Adobe Photoshop CS5 helps Brian Tong with some personal issues; the 27-inch iMac earns an Editors' Choice; and Brian Cooley tries out the 2011 Kia Sorento.  30 minutes

TGIF! How well did people guess about celebrities on Twitter? In this episode of "Who Tweeted What," Tweet Talk goes Hollywood with street bi-standers, Marilyn Monroe and a Playboy House bunny.  5 minutes

Mitch Galbraith, COO of humor website Funny or Die, shares the insider scoop on viral content that wins and depending on social networking referrals for its ad-based revenue. 3 minutes

Rep. Dan Lungren (R-CA) tells CSPAN’s "The Communicators" about efforts to protect the national infrastructure from cyber attacks.  29 minutes

It's a first time CNET People's Choice Prizefight where you picked the fighters. Can the HTC Droid Incredible live up to it's name? Or will the battle-tested iPhone 3GS go for the knockout punch?  6 Minutes

Take an in-depth look at Gov 2.0.  Topics included government efficiency and transparency, government as a platform, and how technologists can play key roles in this important transformation.  50 minutes

Know all the definitions and uses for some popular twitter terms, such as dweet, twalking and twishing?  Find out now.   2 minutes

Increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks and the growing use of smart phones, social networks, information stored in someone else's cloud and more increases the need for cyber security. 52 minutes 

Learn more about Google's latest changes, including a left-hand panel with powerful tools that will make it easier to find accurate results.  2 minutes

Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins toys with the idea that technology might be effecting human evolution, pointing out the value of  "seeing an approaching saber tooth tiger.”  2 Minutes

Verizon confirms working on a tablet with Google, Microsoft introduces Office 2010, Sprint announces HTC Evo 4G Smartphone, pay almost anywhere using an iPhone and a credit card, and more.  7 minutes

Dye-sensitized solar cells operate indoors and can be used on standby power devices such as televisions.  Estimating 280 million TV units in the U.S., 500 million watts of electricity could be taken off the grid.  3 minutes

Leadership in gaming is discussed at the Defense Game Tech Users Conference 2010 where Will Wright, designer of SimCity, SimEarth, and The Sims, presents a keynote speech.  73 minutes

CNET's Ina Fried tries out a Microsoft research prototype that allows two people that don't speak the same language to engage in a real-time conversation.  4 minutes

Microsoft’s Kin phones ready, network key-cracking kits in China, Google revamps its search results page, MIT researchers show off surround vision, robots give offerings to the Aztec serpent god and more.  6 minutes

CBS News correspondent John Blackstone took a test drive in one of Stanford University's latest projects: Shelly, the car that drives itself not with remote control but through on-board intelligence.  2 minutes

Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica, talks about his quest to make all knowledge computational -- able to be searched, processed and manipulated. 20 minutes

Wired.com features 5 iPad apps including Flight Control, Beautiful Planet HD, Air Harp, Marvel Comics and Weather HD for your consideration or curiousity.  3 minutes

Google's Anjali Joshi talks with venture capitalist Esther Dyson about the relationship between tech trends and human nature. 4 minutes

HP plans to buy Palm, a RIM sneak peek of its BlackBerry 6 OS, Imagine Cup gets a visit from James Cameron, Acer plans a line of MIDs, Foursquares co-founder on privacy and monetization plus more.  7 minutes

Neuroscientist David Eagleman asks, "What happens when the Net goes down?" and advocates for a back-up plan powered by renewable energy, containing information on how to rebuild the network.  3 minutes

Looking toward 2011, a distinguished panel of industry experts from AT&T, SAP and more discuss cloud computing, and how and if it will change the way companies run their businesses. 51 minutes

CBSNews.com reporter talks to Twitter co-founder Biz Stone about new partnerships with The Library of Congress and Google, and how Twitter plans to make money off their new sponsored tweets. 8 minutes

The consumer privacy issues associated with analyzing a user's search engine history to target ads based on browsing behavior is explored by the Center for Democracy and Technology. 4 minutes

Facebook announces a new technology, Bill Gates advocates nuclear energy, Apple iPads go on sale in Taiwan, Luminos add a third dimensions to Microsoft Surface computers and more.  7 minutes

Examples of how online shopping and email can benefit the environment include the fact that UPS trucks delivering your online purchases save millions of gallons of gas every year by never making left turns. 3 minutes

At the NewsNow 2010 Ideas Summit, Google’s Eric Schmidt speaks to the American Society of News Editors not only about their disputes but also with predictions of the future of information on the Web.  2 minutes

In a short, funny, data-packed TEDtalk, Catherine Mohr walks through all the geeky decisions she made when building a green new house. What choices matter most? Not the ones you think. 8 minutes

The Communicators explore the DC Court of Appeals recent decision to strike down the FCC's 2008 "Cease & Desist" order aimed at Comcast for slowing info sent by BitTorent, a file-sharing service. 36 minutes

Microsoft introduces its Kin mobile phones, Apple delays the international launch of the iPad, Twitter introduces an ad service called Promoted Tweets, Skinput makes the entire body a touch interface. 7 minutes