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Employers who violate Colorado’s non-compete laws face stiff new penalties
Employers Who Violate Colorado’s Non-Compete Laws Face Stiff New Penalties, Including Jail
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When Lobbying was Illegal
Although lobbyists' influence seems inevitable, in the 1800s, several states banned lobbying outright.
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Bradley Manning’s Statement
Yesterday Bradley explained how and more importantly, why, he shared classified documents with WikiLeaks. Rush transcript by Alexa O'Brien.
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Open Letter from Laura Poitras
The Intercept Promised to Reveal Everything. Then Its Own Scandal Hit. Laura Poitras says she's been fired by First Look Media over Reality Winner controversy. Now she's questioning the watchdog's integrity.
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The forgotten war on beepers
30 years before parents and lawmakers sought to save youth from smartphones via age limits and bans in schools, a similar conversation took place about a pre-cursor to the cellphone: pagers Through the 1980s pagers became increasingly popular with teens, and also:
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Google’s new Chat service shows contempt for Android users’ privacy
Google launches Chat - new messaging service for Android phones
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An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress
Today, a group of 83 prominent Internet inventors and engineers sent an open letter to members of the United States Congress, stating their opposition to the SOPA and PIPA Internet blacklist bills that are under consideration in the House and Senate respectively. We, the undersigned, have played...
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We've Built Cities We Can't Afford
Kansas City, Missouri, has a serious infrastructure problem. But an emerging conversation is charting a path toward greater strength and financial resilience.
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Note from Mark Zuckerberg
Everything we do at Facebook is focused on our mission to make the world more open and connected.
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Norwegian frigate sinking has far-reaching implications
In an incident that has attracted relatively little media attention in Australia, the modern 5,300-ton Norwegian frigate KNM Helge Ingstad sank in a Norwegian fjord after a collision with the large Maltese-registered oil tanker Sola ...
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Air Accident Investigation Branch: film lights caused window damage on A321neo
The UK AAIB says high-powered film lights caused damaged to the windows of the Titan Airways A321neo G-OATW.
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Goodbye Mac App Store
While Jettison and HistoryHound are still supported and sold on the St. Clair Software website, I’ve pulled them from the Mac App Store. The versions that were in the Mac App Store were older revisions, and it just didn’t make business sense to rearchitect the apps to meet Apple’s current requirements for approval so…
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230, or not 230? That is the EARN IT question
Over the past several weeks, Signal traffic has gone through the roof. New users are signing up at unprecedented rates, and we’ve expanded our server capacity faster than we ever anticipated. It means a lot to us that so many people are relying on Signal during this difficult time. When users che...
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India’s Downward Spiral
How India is losing its footing on free expression. The world’s biggest democracy is a formidable power in the IT sector. With software exports comprising approximately ten percent of India’s total GDP and a technology sector that employs more than 2.5 million people, India is poised to become a...
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LineageOS will be a continuation of what CyanogenMod was
We aren't going anywhere.
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SaveDotOrg Protest at ICANN in Los Angeles this Friday Jan 24
Learn how the nonprofit community united in 2019 behind a successful campaign organized by NTEN and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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50% of U.S. vinyl buyers don't own a record player
The Great Return: From Digital Abundance to Analog Meaning
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Keeping your data from Apple is harder than expected
New study shows that the default apps collect data even when supposedly disabled, and this is hard to switch off
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GiveDirectly Planning to Give $30M in Basic Income to East Africa
Money always helps, but for the poorest, one large lump sum can last a long time. A long-term universal basic income also looks promising.
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U.S. Supreme Court Curbs Excessive Design Patent Damages
The Supreme Court issued an important ruling today in the long-running patent battle between Apple and Samsung. The appeal involved some of Apple’s infamous design patents on rounded corners. The Federal Circuit had ruled that Apple was entitled to all of Samsung’s profits from the infringing...
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Poverty reduces brainpower needed for navigating other areas of life (2013)
Research based at Princeton University found that poverty and all its related concerns require so much mental energy that the poor have less remaining brainpower to devote to other areas of life.
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College campuses are designed at human-scale – cities can be too
Many college campuses are designed to be walkable and human-scaled. But living in a neighborhood like that doesn’t have to end at graduation.
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EFF Defends Public’s Right to Access Court Records About Patent Ownership
The public’s right of access to court proceedings is well-established as a legal principle, but it needs constant defending. In part, that’s because private parties keep asking publicly-funded courts to resolve their disputes in secret. As we and others have written before, this problem is...
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Update on Omicron
On 26 November 2021, WHO designated the variant B.1.1.529 a variant of concern, named Omicron, on the advice of WHO’s Technical Advisory Group on Virus Evolution (TAG-VE). This decision was based on the evidence presented to the TAG-VE that Omicron has several mutations that may have an impact on how it behaves, for…
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Ask a Female Engineer: How Can Managers Help Retain Technical Women?
I’m the moderator for our Ask A Female Engineer series, and a female engineer on the software team at YC. In the ongoing conversation about women in tech, we hear a lot about women leaving companies and even the industry as a whole, so we decided to ask a group of female engineers…