Ethics In Tech Social media accounts linked to the enigmatic street artist Banksy posted a touching tribute to the 12 people killed by Islamist terrorists in Paris on Wednesday. Hours after the three gunmen massacred 10 staff members of the controversial satire magazine Charlie Hebdo and two police officers near Read more…
An undated picture released by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency shows leader Kim Jong-Un looking at a computer during a military drill.” An undated picture released by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency shows leader Kim Jong-Un looking at a computer during a military drill. South Korea Read more…
As their numbers and confidence swell, Republicans in Congress are preparing to fight the Obama administration’s plans to protect net neutrality. The Wall Street Journal reports Republicans are looking at a number of options to thwart proposed rules designed to protect net neutrality, the principle that all Internet traffic should be treated Read more…
Former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin triggered a social media firestorm after she posted Facebook photos of her son using the family dog as a step stool. Palin’s post includes photos of 6-year-old Trig, who has Down Syndrome, standing on the back of the prone black Labrador Read more…
Google is warning that a US government plan to expand the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s hacking powers is a monumental constitutional threat. The federal government wants to make it easier for the FBI to hack into computers of Internet users who seek to keep their online activities anonymous. At issue is Read more…
Two student groups have blasted an outrageous University of Massachusetts Amherst policy that bans Iranian students from enrolling in a wide range of science, engineering and technology courses due to US sanctions policy against the Islamic Republic. Beginning on February 1, the prestigious university stopped admitting Iranians to various programs Read more…
Japan now has more electric vehicle charging points than gas stations, an encouraging milestone in a nation that has long been a leader in the transition to post-fossil fuel-powered transportation. Bloomberg reports Nissan Motor Company, which manufactures the all-electric Leaf, made the surprising discovery while counting Japan’s electric charging points. There Read more…
Apple Inc. has fired a former Alabama state lawmaker with a history of opposing rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. Inside Alabama Politics reports Apple has terminated the contract of Jay Love, a former Republican state legislator turned lobbyist who was registered with the Alabama Ethics Committee Read more…
A group presumed to be the US National Security Agency has found a way to install surveillance and sabotage spyware deep inside computers it has targeted in numerous nations, a Russian cybersecurity company claimed on Monday. The New York Times reports Kaspersky Lab, the same firm that recently revealed that Read more…
Children who have been deaf for their entire lives are receiving the gift of hearing for the very first time thanks to a device being tested by researchers across the country. It’s called an auditory brainstem implant (ABI), and it’s a surgically inserted electronic device that provides a sense of Read more…