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US Senator demands the restoration of 10 years of online public records
The head of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee is urging the federal bureaucracy to restore a decade's worth of electronic court documents that were deleted last month from online viewing...
Yahoo was threatened with a daily $250,000 fine for protecting user data
Back in 2008, in the days of the BlackBerry Storm, netbooks and well, yes, Yahoo, the internet company was threatened with a hefty $250,000 per day fine from the US...
Google has agreed to refund $19 million in app purchases made by children
Google has agreed to issue at least $19 million in refunds to consumers whose children made app purchases from its Google Play store without parental consent. The United States Federal...
Why does the decade-old TI-84 Plus still dominate the US market?
The TI-84 Plus graphing calculator has a 15 MHz processor, 24 kilobytes of RAM, and a 96x64 black and white screen. It has an Amazon list price of $190. The...
The FCC’s next CTO is an expert on net neutrality
The CTO position at the FCC demands a person who is technically proficient in networks and the Internet, and also one who isn’t afraid to get neck-deep in policy making....
A SpaceX rocket blew up over Texas in mid-flight during a test
A SpaceX F9R rocket exploded during a test over Texas today after an anomaly was detected. The rocket’s software automatically blew up the ship, preventing it from leaving the test...
The US Navy is testing exoskeletons from Lockheed Martin
While it may not be a full suit of high-tech gadgetry like Iron Man dons, the US Navy is set to test exoskeletons from Lockheed Martin. In the first contract...
The FCC wants to protects civilians from “Stingray” devices
Devices known as Stingrays, which can secretly track and record phone users by mimicking cell phone towers, have been a hot topic in law enforcement and civil liberties circles for...
The FCC has condemned Verizon’s plans to throttle “unlimited” LTE users
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler isn't happy with Verizon's reply to his strongly worded letter, which chastises the company for its plans throttle some unlimited LTE subscribers. See, Big Red defended...
Russia’s anti-freedom “blogger law” has come into effect
The new law requiring Russian bloggers to register as media entities and hold themselves to the same standards as a full media organization has come into effect today. First signed...
Google Street View cars are being used to detect gas leaks
Trundling along the streets of Boston, Staten Island, and Indianapolis in recent months, Google’s Street View cars haven’t just been collecting panoramic imagery. Fitted with methane sensors, the cars have...
The vast majority of NSA-intercepted data came from non-targets
Late Saturday night, the Washington Post dropped a bombshell of a report related to a trove of documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. The documents included...
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