Hacking is the modern-day super power. It can be used for good or evil. Laurie Segall infiltrates the underworld of hackers, revealing the community of adrenaline seekers, altruists, and anarchists...
What's your party trick? Hacking guns? Cars? ATMs? One week a year, Vegas fills up with members of a group that's becoming one of the most influential in the world: hackers. Thousands and thousands...
Meet the real-life girl with the dragon tattoo. Just like the fictional Lisbeth Salander, Shyama Rose faced abuse and fought back with an incredible ability to hack. And by total coincidence -- yea...
Some people hack for a cause -- it's known as hacktivism. Laurie Segall speaks to face-to...mask with Anonymous, and speaks with a hacker who fights for justice by attacking racist websites, but fi...
Moxie Marlinspike won't tell you his name or where he's from, but everyone from U.S. Intelligence officials to Edward Snowden looks to what he'll say on one topic: encryption. The technology has co...
Social engineers, or people hackers, specialize in getting you to share information you shouldn't -- like personal details that could lead to a password being stolen. Laurie Segall reports.
Elon Musk is the man of the future. He makes cars that don't require gasoline and rocket ships that will carry humans to space. But he can't solve all of humanity's challenges. We found the compani...
Hiding in Knoxville, Tennessee is the nation's most powerful supercomputer. 'Titan' is being pushed to untangle the world's deepest mysteries, like the Big Bang Theory, using sheer computing power.
Teaching computers to operate like the human brain is the ultimate goal of artificial intelligence. The biggest fear is that machines can teach themselves dangerous human-like behaviors. We go insi...
Solazyme was founded with the goal of creating transportation fuels from algae. But they soon discovered that a certain strain of pond scum could be coaxed into any type of oil, including cooking o...
Elon Musk is worried about AI, but not in the 'evil robots take over the world' kind of way. What happens when artificial intelligence becomes superintelligence?
750 million people don't have access to clean water. Desalination, or the removal of salt from seawater, is not a new concept and has been widely criticized for the amount of energy used during the...
Bloom Energy is a multi-billion dollar brainchild of a NASA rocket scientist. Its original task was to provide oxygen for people on Mars, but instead the company stumbled upon a cheap renewable ene...
Twelve hundred frozen embryos were stranded for nearly two weeks in a flooding hospital in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, until a special task force from Illinois made a daring rescue.
FEMA estimates that 30-40% of people didn't evacuate because they stayed with their pets. After Katrina, Congress passed the PETS Act, which authorizes FEMA to rescue, shelter and care for people w...
Frustrated with the limited options for special needs children in New Orleans post-Katrina school system, Jacqueline Case founded her own academy for students with cognitive disabilities.
NASA's Michoud Assembly Plant in New Orleans was nearly destroyed in Hurricane Katrina, but the staff rallied around their mission and returned to full operations in just two months.
The Running Bear Boxing Club in New Orleans Lower Ninth Ward was destroyed in Hurricane Katrina. But it's back and better than ever, serving at-risk children in the community.
Quarterback Drew Brees became a symbol of New Orleans' post-Katrina recovery, leading the Saints to an improbable Super Bowl win in 2010. But his heroics extend off the field, where he's helping to...
Family-run Pelican Produce leases 25 lots from Habitat for Humanity, which took possession of thousands of acres of blighted land in New Orleans in the wake of Katrina.
1 in 5 children in the U.S. rely on food stamps, or SNAP benefits. CNNMoney follows one family in Bridgeport, Connecticut to see how children living under the poverty line eat every day.
When the city of Bridgeport, CT started offering breakfast in the classroom, participation more than doubled. Here's why that's important for low-income children's development.
After taking out labor, equipment and transportation costs, the city of Bridgeport has about $1.50 to spend on lunch for each child. CNNMoney visits where daily meals are made for more than 10,000 ...
Healthy food is hard to come by in many sections of Bridgeport, CT. Especially on a food stamp budget. We follow a single mother shopping as she tries to make her SNAP benefits stretch.
The income inequality between Bridgeport, CT and its neighboring towns is striking. Raised on food stamps, one mother is determined to break the cycle of poverty for her family.
Charlotte Laws' daughter took a topless selfie and shared it with no one, but it ended up on one of the most popular revenge porn websites. Laurie Segall reports.
Hackers are breaking into webcams and emails to gain access to intimate images and then selling or trading them in the dark corners of the web. Laurie Segall reports.
Hacker Charlie Evens infiltrated countless womens' inboxes to steal naked photos and post them on a revenge porn website. He explains why he did it in an interview with Laurie Segall.