Department of Pre-Crime Is Becoming a Reality
Civil liberties and the pitfalls of predictive policing
Civil liberties and the pitfalls of predictive policing
Civil liberties increasingly threatened under state of emergency that's been extended for 6 months.
Among other things, Apple alleges that the FBI violates its First Amendment rights by compelling company engineers to write code.
A murder of local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies would want their own backdoors too.
Technological progress and innovation aren't a given and don't happen on their own.
Mrs. Reagan was staunch advocate of War on Drugs, later bucked Republican party by pushing for stem cell research.
Big names in tech file briefs in support.
There are good reasons to doubt that conclusion.
Contradicts claims that only 40 percent of studies could be replicated.
Tor Project insists those vulnerabilities are not longer exploitable by law enforcement.
But unintended pregnancies remained most common among women who were poor and cohabiting
Will February's warmth stand out as a singular spike or be part of an ongoing trend?
School administrators say she should have password-protected the phone.
Judiciary Committee members understand the precedent involved.
Representatives of 195 countries hammer out an emissions accord in Paris.
Private-sector innovations trump government-controlled monopolies.
Federal officials can't keep their own secrets. Would you really trust them with the ability to access yours?
Says government has overstepped bounds
Farmers would have to plow down an area roughly equal to Connecticut.
Getting rid of the $100 bill is one more trim on our freedom to be left alone.
We spoke with author Andy Weir in September.
The stories of yesterday provide hints for the lawmakers of tomorrow.
Ordering people to reproduce in only government approved ways is tyrannical and unethical.
Rubio, Cruz accept claim that the encryption fight is over "just one phone."
Not all "female genital mutilation" is destructive, they say, with some procedures no more problematic than male circumcision.
The national security whistleblower talks to the Free State Project from an undisclosed location in Russia.
The DOJ has persuaded a judge to issue a search warrant for a thing that does not exist, by forcing Apple to create a key that the FBI is incapable of creating.
Melinda Gates calls on teens to close the unpaid-work gap globally via entrepreneurship and technological innovation.
The rate of temperature increase has been dramatically slower than predicted, says Nature Climate Change.
Company reveals formal opposition plan to demand they help weaken phone security.
Coastal flooding made worse by sea level rise linked to rising average temperatures
Kennedy and Matt Welch defend Apple against the FBI
It's possible that the FBI is not primarily concerned with the particular evidence stored on the San Bernardino shooter's phone at all.
Would the government really limit itself to just this one terrorist iPhone? Tune into Kennedy on Fox Business Network; replay at midnight
The electric car company might achieve victory in another state but the win should not be limited just to Tesla.
Taleb's anti-GMO precautionary nonsense is unethical and harms poor people
The talking points insist this Apple case is an isolated incident. Evidence suggests otherwise.
How Music Got Free author Stephen Witt on the creation of the MP3 and the death of the music industry
A handy guide for chatting anonymously online.
The government wants what it wants, consequences be damned.
Documentaries on robots and big data avoid some big issues.
Planting biotech crops will not lead to human extinction or global ecocide.
Fallacious arguments against developing and growing modern biotech crops is cause for great moral concern.
The stick has been suggested. Now where is the carrot?