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All Things Considered host Melissa Block looks ahead to this week's tech news with NPR's Laura Sydell. This week, Kodak, the former photo giant, unloads another property to stay afloat.

Emails from the big British bank suggest traders tried to manipulate a key interest rate. Now regulators in Europe and the U.S. are looking into whether other banks also gamed the numbers.

Our readers debate whether a tweet is best compared to an ephemeral shout, or a bulletin board memo.

Author Rajiv Chandrasekaran believes the U.S. has made multiple miscalculations in waging war in Afghanistan. In his new book, Little America, he says America should have learned from a largely forgotten U.S. adventure undertaken there a half-century earlier.

Drink that Slurpee too fast, and you risk an attack of "brain freeze." Scientists are fascinated by the headaches caused by consuming cold things. But alas, they still don't know where ice cream headaches come from.

The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space was established to drum up interest in experiments by folks outside of NASA. The organization has had a rocky first year but now is starting to show what it can do.

Chief executive Bob Diamond is the latest figure ousted in a financial markets scandal at Barclays. The bank's chairman also announced his intention to resign.

No power and high heat equal no fun in parts of Illinois. Some worry that July 4 celebrations will be affected.

Several states in the East and Midwest are still grappling with last weekend's severe storms. In Virginia, hundreds of thousands of residents don't have electricity. But the question is: Why do some neighborhoods in Charlottesville have power while others don't?

NPR science editor Maria Godoy was inspired by the fantasy novel and HBO series Game of Thrones. The TV show also inspired the authors of A Feast of Fire and Ice, who found authentic medieval recipes for their cookbook.