CSC 170
Introduction to Computers and their Applications

Fall, 2007

Recommended Tech-News sources

It's a good idea to read news from different sources, and even different countries: the government-run Chinese People's Daily, for example, will have a very different take on free speech and censorship than Wired!

• ACM TechNews, a three-times-a-week digest of news stories of interest to computer scientists, from the Association for Computing Machinery, the leading CS professional organization
• British Broadcasting Company News Technology section
• C|Net News
• CNN Technology section
• Canadian Broadcasting Company Technology section
• Houston Chronicle Technology section
• IDG News
• Internet.com, a news magazine "for technology professionals"
• London Times Technology section
• Los Angeles Times Technology section
• MacLife, a news magazine on the Macintosh and related issues
• National Public Radio
• New York Times Technology section
• PC World, a news magazine on Windows-compatible computers
• Chinese People's Daily Technology section
• The Risks Digest, a roughly-weekly digest of news articles on Risks to the Public in Computers and Related Systems
• SiliconValley.com, run by the San Jose Mercury News (the leading newspaper for the Silicon Valley area)
• Seattle Times Technology section; Redmond, the home of Microsoft, is a Seattle suburb, and there are a lot of techies in the Seattle area
• SiliconIndia technology section
• Slashdot.org, "news for nerds"
• Wired magazine, a news magazine with a particular interest in technology and its human impacts
• Yahoo News technology section

Thanks to Professor M. Wendy Hennequin, from whose Internet and Technical Writing course page I copied most of these links.