Stories by Sharon Gaudin

Craigslist demands apology in battle of racy ads

After South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster said efforts by Craigslist to eliminate racy ads aren't enough to halt his crimininal investigation, the head of the classified advertising Web site demanded an apology.

Google News stutters for second day in a row

For the second day in a row, Google News had a glitchthat derailed Google Inc.'s news aggregation site for a short time.

NASA astronauts head out on last Hubble spacewalk

Gearing up for their fifth and final spacewalk today, the crew of the space shuttle Atlantis hoped to install the last set of batteries and a sensor that should help the Hubble Space Telescope point at its celestial targets.

WolframAlpha takes search in a whole new direction

After much online chatter and media buildup, WolframAlpha is up and running, promising to take online search in a whole new direction.

Google News hit with another outage

Less than a week after suffering a widespread outage, a Google Inc. Web site had another hiccup this morning.

NASA astronauts repairing Hubble's black hole hunter

The fourth spacewalk of the mission to repair and update the Hubble Space Telescope is under way, with astronauts working to bring back to life a key instrument that has been down for the last five years.

NASA astronauts install new computer on Hubble telescope

During a 7-hour-and-20-minute spacewalk today, NASA astronauts gave the Hubble Space Telescope a new backup computer to replace the onboard system that had to be put into use after a technical failure last fall.

NASA astronauts miss 40 tiles in heat shield inspection

NASA disclosed today that an investigation earlier this week that found multiple dings in the space shuttle Atlantis' heat shield must be restarted because about 40 tiles were missed.

Google blames outage on system error and online traffic jam

Google Inc. is blaming this morning's Google Apps service outage on a system error that caused a major traffic jam.

Google suffers major failure

The Internet has been abuzz about widespread trouble with Google Inc.'s Google Apps service this morning.

A Twitter first: NASA astronaut sends first tweet from space

Twitter hit a new milestone today.

NASA shuttle crew uses robotic arm to inspect for damage

The crew of the space shuttle Atlantis is using the NASA vehicle's robotic arm to determine whether the spacecraft's heat shield was damaged during yesterday's blast off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

NASA investigating damage to heat shield of shuttle Atlantis

An outer space inspection of the heat shield on the NASA space shuttle Atlantis has found multiple dings in critical outer tiles.

Google adds tools to help search users dig deeper

Saying that its users are becoming increasingly sophisticated, Google Inc. today unveiled a list of new search technologies geared to help users 'slice and dice' their Google search results, along with a new tool to help them cull information instead of web pages.

Google Adds Apps Link to BlackBerry

Looking to increase corporate use of its hosted Google Apps offerings, Google Inc. last week unveiled a tool that's designed to make it easier for users of BlackBerry mobile devices to use its Gmail, Contacts and Calendar software.