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By clock on April 7, 2010. Continuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See all the interviews in this series here. You can check out previous years' interviews as well: 2008 and 2009. Today, I asked Beth Beck from NASA to answer a few questions. Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Would you, please, tell my readers a little bit more about yourself? Where are you coming from (both geographically and philo...

Doug had cinnamon apple oatmeal for breakfast the day he hit the championship-winning home run.  For the big game, the team was wearing their preferred dark uniforms rather than the “away game” white ones. The game was in their home stadium. The wind was out of the southwest at about ten knots, making a nice breeze from behind home plate toward the left field fence. The team’s biggest fan, sitting in section D, row 3, seat 7, was wearing his lucky Def Leppard T-shirt, had his Snap-On Tools ball cap on backward in “rally” mode, and he was drinking his usual diet soda. Queen’s “W...

Google Cloud has returned to its focus on selling to customers as it competes against Amazon Web Services and Microsoft, employees say.

Honk introduces a real-time, ephemeral messaging app aimed at Gen Z A new mobile app called Honk aims to make messaging with friends a more interactive, real-time experience. Instead of sending texts off into the void and hoping for a response, friends on Honk communicate via messages that are shown live as you type, with no saved chat history and no send button. The end result is a feeling of being more present in a conversation, as Honk will notify users the moment someone leaves a chat. And if you really want to get someone’s attention, you can send them a “Honk” — a hard-to-miss n...

This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. PayPal COO Bill Ready came aboard to help lead Google's e-commerce push, while former Obama health official Karen DeSalvo is working on Google's healthcare play. David Drummond, the company's chief legal officer, departed following an investigation into claims he had relationships with subordinates at the company, while Google Cloud's former CFO Steffan Tomlinson left for the $4.5 billion startup Confluent. Read below for Google's biggest hires and departure...