In an era defined by free information exchange via the wide open, largely unregulated internet, the concept of federal bodies …
Continue reading Net neutrality and the FCC: what’s being done to preserve it
See with your tongue. Navigate with your skin. Fly by the seat of your pants (literally). How researchers can tap …
Do you ever wonder what happened to all of those bright-eyed, optimistic visions of a clean, utopian future that technology …
Continue reading The Floating City of the Year 2000 (from 1979)
BBC journalist Matt Frei presents a brief but enlightening layout of the forces at work in US/Iranian relations. It’s more complicated than …
Continue reading Inside Iran: What are we heading for, and why?
I wonder how many times mistakes like this happen these days, when PR disaster is often just a click or …
Continue reading Microsoft Sends Secret Dossier on Reporter, to Reporter
The leading manufacturer of night vision gear for the Defense Department has admitted sending classified materials overseas and will pay …
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According to McCain, the surge is working! And the streets of Baghdad are safe for Americans to go strolling down. …
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An excellent little article by Chris Chatham that puts a lot of common misconceptions about the future of AI into …
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A Glimpse into Government Radley Balko, March 26, 2007 The one useful thing to come of all of this is …
Continue reading What those Justice Department emails really reveal.
The Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE), from which U.S Watch Lists are drawn from, has grown to the point that …
Continue reading Terror database spiraling out of control, criticized for inaccuracies
One of the most bizarre weather patterns known has been photographed at Saturn, where astronomers have spotted a huge, six-sided …
Jeff Hawkins invented the Palm Pilot and wrote a book called ‘On Intelligence’. Now he has founded Numenta – a …
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