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Jimmy Wales on Systems and Incentives
The Wikipedia founder explains how the online encyclopedia will maintain objectivity in polarizing times.
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FDA grants emergency authorization for first saliva-based coronavirus test
The new saliva collection method, which RUCDR developed in partnership with Spectrum Solutions and Accurate Diagnostic Labs, will allow for broader population screening than the current method of nose and throat swabs.
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Why We Should All Care About Today's Senate Vote on FISA
Today is an incredibly important vote for the future of your digital privacy, but some in Congress are hoping you won’t find out. Finally, after weeks of delay, the Senate will start debate on the dangerous FISA Amendments Act at 10 am Eastern and vote on its re-authorization by the end of the day...
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What Happened in 2014?
I’m not much for the rear view mirror. I like to look forward, not back. I guess that’s why I’m in the line of work I’m in. But I’m going to force myself to look back at 2014 and explain what just happened. Doing that will help me look forward (tomorrow?) and explain what is […]
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Offline-Pedia converts old televisions into Wikipedia readers (2018)
There are villages in the Ecuadorian Andes that are so small you cannot find them on a map. Cajas Juridica is one such place, located just 13km north of the equator. But two engineering students, Joshua Salazar and Jorge Vega, and the staff of Yachay Tech University have figured out a way to give discarded….
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Google Surrenders in the Nymnwars
Proponents of pseudonymity scored a major victory today, when Google executive Vic Gundotra revealed at the Web 2.0 Summit that social networking service Google+ will begin supporting pseudonyms and other types of identity. The news comes after several months of what has been dubbed Nymwars, in...
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Security in 2020
There’s really no such thing as security in the abstract. Security can only be defined in relation to something else. You’re secure from something or against something. In the next 10 years, the traditional definition of IT security—that it protects you from hackers, criminals, and other bad guys—will undergo a…
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Case law is set free; what next?
The next article in our 10th Anniversary Series is by Thomas Bruce. He is the director of the Legal Information Institute at Cornell. He ...
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Turning the Tables on AI
How about using it not to think less but *more*?
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Picture This: The Periodic Table
Philip Ball on the visual ordering of all the elements known to humankind—and how we might order them differently.
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Free the Internet: The Tor Project's annual fundraiser
This year we are calling to FREE THE INTERNET. Your donation will help break the chains of censorship and surveillance. If you give now during the campaign, your donation will be matched by our supporters at Power Up Privacy. This means a $25 donation will have a $50 impact.
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Gov. Brown Signs CalECPA, Requiring Police to Get a Warrant for Your Data
Californians can rest assured that law enforcement can’t poke around in their digital records without first obtaining a warrant. Today, Gov. Jerry Brown has signed S.B. 178, the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (CalECPA). After months of pressure from public interest groups, media...
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Driving is more expensive than you think (2020)
Harvard study says Massachusetts car economy costs $64 billion, and more than half of that comes from public.
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The Road Not Taken Is Guaranteed Minimum Income
The dream is incomplete until we share it with our fellow Americans.
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GDPR Hysteria Part II, Nuts and Bolts, Actionable Advice
Part I of this is here , if you haven’t read it yet please do so before reading this installment, it will help to establish context.
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Warren Buffett's bet against hedge funds at the Long Now Foundation (2008-17)
will go to Girls Incorporated of Omaha if Buffett wins, or Friends of Absolute Return for Kids, Inc if Protege Partners, LLC wins.