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...Progressive Insurance already gives people recorders for their cars and offers lower rates based on six months of black box data. Some say that eventually people won't be able to get insurance unless they reveal their black box data...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q & A: Joan Claybrook | 8/8/2006 | See Source »

...supervised driving patterns. In what some see as a slippery slope, Ohio-based Progressive Insurance has offered 3.6 million customers the possibility of a $100 annual rebate if they install black boxes that gather six months of data and share that information. The theory: drivers proven safe should pay lower premiums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Psst, Your Car is Watching You | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

...sandy arena out the back of Rockhampton's Great Western Hotel on this Saturday night, 45 cowboys in cocky white straw hats and cautious padded vests will lower themselves onto the back of a close-penned bull, wedge one hand under the rope around its chest, an`d wait for the ring-ward side of the pen to be pulled open. But only 11 will ride the bull, and only four will know the glory of doing it twice. The rest will-in the time it takes several hundred steak-sandwich-chomping onlookers to gasp-be tossed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where the Buck Stops | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

KIMBERLY DOZIER, the CBS correspondent critically wounded in an explosion while reporting from Iraq in May, was released from a rehabilitation facility in Maryland last week. The blast killed her camera crew and left Dozier with wounds to her head, legs and lower body. "I'm up on crutches and can even manage with a cane," she said in a written statement last week. "It's not pretty, but I'm walking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Update: Aug. 14, 2006 | 8/6/2006 | See Source »

...PICTURES AND VIDEO Pixsy This clever engine extracts images and videos from the RSS feeds of a variety of content providers, from YouTube to the BBC. Click on a source - say, The New York Times - from the "Browse Recently Added" box on the lower right-hand side of the home page, and you'll get a fresh batch of thumbnails, which serve as direct links to the material. Or browse by category to see the latest content to come online. Currently stocking some 10 million items in its searchable bank, Pixsy intends to have 1 billion items in store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Web Search and Services | 8/3/2006 | See Source »

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