Episode: WTP 170: DARPA's Urban Challenge, Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales, and Facebook in Lebanon


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WTP 170: DARPA's Urban Challenge, Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales, and Facebook in Lebanon
This week's podcast is full of fun and frolics. First, the Bush Adminstration's offered to let NGOs and faith-based groups set up computers and internet access in Cuba. We'll look at whether that's likely to happen. Also, Darpa, the research wing of the US Defense Department, is offering $2 million to anyone that can build a robotic car than can drive itself through a simulated urban environment. Then, an interview with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. And we'll end with a segment looking at the popularity of Facebook in Lebanon. That reminds us -- The World's Technology Podcast is also now on Facebook. Find out more at http://www.theworld.org/?q=taxonomy/term/5.