Dec 18
The wait is finally over! Despite having said it would come out in January, the Obama Administration hustled and released a report from the advisory committee set up to recommend changes to the NSA. And, my, are those changes many.
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Nov 19
Slate is reporting that, while the Obama administration has long been making noises about trying to support phone unlocking
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Oct 07
So, you know how the federal government all shut down because Congress failed to come up with a budget to pay the employees? Well, the members of the special committee set up to investigate the intelligence community just threw in the towel, too. But they weren’t even getting paid in the first place.
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Feb 18
The Obama Administration has announced plans to map the human brain in a decade long research project. The project is in the works to be unveiled by March and hopes to do for the brain exactly what the “Human Genome Project” did for “genetics” as reported by the The New York Times. The Human Genome Project identified all the genes in the human DNA that helped understand disease and their treatment, human evolution and many other areas.
The project which could cost billions of dollars will be announced with the annual budget proposal. Although the actual cost of the project as well as the amount it will get from federal funding is unknown, but it seems that the Obama Administration is highly invested in the project. “Every dollar we invested to map the human genome returned $140 to our economy — every dollar/ Today our scientists are mapping the human brain to unlock the answers to Alzheimer’s. They’re developing drugs to regenerate damaged organs, devising new materials to make batteries 10 times more powerful. Now is not the time to gut these job-creating investments in science and innovation” President Obama said during his State of the Union address.
The project could do very well for the economy, as was the Human Genome Project, which cost $3.8 billion to complete, and as per federal research has returned almost $800 billion by 2010. The project could possibly transform the brain research industry and create jobs in the research sector.
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Sep 17
Editorial: We, the digitally naked
Posted in: Today's Chili 
The iPhone 5. It is taller, and has incremental improvements under the hood, and is shiny. (I’m staying away. Typing on glass is wrong.)
Of more import, the smartphone you carry is more than a communication device; it is potentially a government surveillance enabler. To whatever extent that is the case (depending on whose public pronouncements you believe), latent digital snooping was reinforced on the same day as the iPhone event. Two days after that, Google announced its intention to build a “Do Not Track” option into the Chrome browser, giving users some shielding from a different type of rampant surveillance — the type that creepily delivers knowingly targeted ads. The two issues differ in seriousness, but are related as privacy concerns. As our mobile and desktop devices get sexier, we become increasingly naked.
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