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In Monday's video, we got to check out the 2010 Lexus HS250h, which is a fine representative of the current hybrid vehicles that this luxury brand has to offer. A few weeks back, Lexus presented a new car to add to its hybrid legacy at the 2010 New York Auto Show--the CT200h--and this video has got the scoop on the next generation of Lexus hybrids.

In this clip, Consumer Reports reviews the production-ready version of the CT200h that was initially unveiled at the 2010 Geneva Auto Show and will only be sold as a hybrid vehicle much like the … Read more

LONDON--Thanks to the volcanic ash pouring out of Iceland, I had some extra time in London last week, giving me an opportunity to try my hand at shuttle diplomacy between Facebook and a British police agency called the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Center, or CEOP.

I came to London en route to a tech conference in Spain that was canceled due to the air travel issues and also to give a talk at a Family Online Safety Institute conference in Bahrain that starts Tuesday.

As I wrote recently, CEOP is pressuring Facebook to add a reporting button (some call … Read more

I gotta say, I'm really proud of this week's Buzz Report--plus, it's extra-large for your enjoyment, at more than 6 minutes long! There's this week's ruling on the FCC's ability to enforce Net neutrality regulations, a little iPad talk (did you know you can take it through airport security and leave it in your bag?), and a little breaking news insert to update you on the big iPhone OS 4.0 announcement (we do in 90 seconds what Steve Jobs does in 90 minutes). And Kevin Rose takes over as Digg's interim … Read more

When applications crash or are forced to quit during a hang in OS X, the system will bring up a crash reporter window that contains diagnostic information about your system, which applications were open, and memory traces for the threads that were open. This information allows developers to troubleshoot and fix bugs in their programs that may have led to the crash. When presented, you will have the option to send the report to Apple along with comments about what you were doing, or dismiss the message without sending.… Read more

Many people who invest a significant amount of money in solar panels find themselves groping in the dark when it comes to knowing how well a system performs.

A new company, SunReports, has developed a device and Web software application that keeps tabs on how well both solar electric and solar hot water systems are performing. The San Francisco-based company on Tuesday said it expects to begin manufacturing its solar monitoring devices with a goal of making hundreds of thousands of units this year, according to CEO Thomas Dinkel.

The SunReports Apollo1 is a small box with ports to connect … Read more

"Never mind how I got it. I had two kidneys," said Stephen Colbert in his second brilliant, spontaneously QVC-ish iPad pitch, which aired on "The Colbert Report" Thursday night.

The seriously committed, or those who should be, will remember that Colbert was first seen producing an iPad from inside what might well have been a specially made jacket pocket at the Grammys. Thursday, on his show, he claimed everyone was raving about the magical revolution.

Newsweek, he declared, loved the iPad so much it made it the "first non-Obama cover in 15 months." Yes, … Read more

Amid a sea of praise for Google's recent decision to stop censoring search results in China, Paul Thurrott wrote a piece on how we shouldn't celebrate Google's China decisions at all, calling its move "a cold-hearted business decision, like so many other decisions made by this faceless, mathematically minded behemoth." Ouch. I respectfully disagree.

Pardon me for repeating myself (you can hear a similar version of this post in Thursday's Buzz Out Loud, starting around 29:30), but I think Thurrott is placing an unfair expectation of perfection on Google, and I don't … Read more

At first the purpose of this program puzzled us. Why would you want to download all of the images on a given Web site? We pondered this for a moment and then it dawned on; although we're sure there are other reasons, the first one that occurred to us starts with a P and ends with a -orn. Whatever your reasons, if you find yourself needing to grab a lot of images off the Web in a hurry, Web Image Collector is exactly what you need.

The program's interface is plain and intuitive, with graphical buttons that represent … Read more

China and Iran are among the world's top "Internet enemies" tagged by Reporters Without Borders for restricting Internet freedom. But even democratic countries like Australia and South Korea are raising concerns.

The fight to restrict freedom is increasingly being fought on the Internet as certain governments continue to censor what content their citizens can see online and try to target those who resist such efforts. The current skirmish between Google and China over filtering search results is just one example.

But it's not only repressive regimes like China that are the culprits, according to a report (… Read more