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First-Class Flyers Get to Try Virtual Reality, Coach Passengers Stuck in Real Reality
The Australian airline Qantas, in partnership with Samsung Electronics Australia, just announced that it will offer virtual-reality technology on s...
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Parental Leave Could be for Dad, Too
Anne-Marie Slaughter, president and CEO of the New America Foundation, said offering paternity leave would mean more workplace equality for women a...
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Message to Congress: How not to kill the Internet when fighting terror
MacKinnon testifies before the House Foreign Affairs’ Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade
This week, I testified at a hearing titled The Evolution of Terrorist Propaganda: The Paris Attack and Social Media convened by the House Foreign A...
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Building Cohesive Neighborhoods by Sharing Broadband
The high price of broadband service, lack of choice in broadband offerings, and uncertainty about the possible benefits and harms of digital partic...
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Did an Armed Chinese-made Drone Just Crash in Nigeria
As the brutal Boko Haram insurgency has entered its 7th year in Nigeria, the relationship between the government and China has deepened. In many wa...
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Focus on Afghanistan, not Kashmir, India and Pakistan urged
"The Pakistani Taliban was more dangerous six years back. Since 2009, military offensives have pushed it back and there is a situation now where th...
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House panel says tech firms need to help more on terror
"I don't think law is going to solve the problem, but I'm also quite leery of just generally saying 'OK, social media companies, you just police ev...
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Lobbying tapered off in 2014 amid congressional gridlock
"There’s a lot of value to continuing to show up and build relationships,” Drutman said. “Politics is not a vending machine. You don’t know what wi...
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The Transformative Agenda of LBJ
In The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society, Julian E. Zelizer argues that Johnson spearheaded the...
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The Wrong Time to Get Rid of 529s
President Obama’s message in the State of the Union was clear: Wealth should be taxed to ease the burden on the middle class. Then why would the pr...
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Good News: Replicas of 16th-Century Sculptures Are Not Off-Limits for 3-D Printers
Despite our modern aversion to “copying,” the act of reproducing sculpture is nothing new. Museums have been created high-quality casts of their sc...
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MacKinnon Testifies Before Congressional Subcommittee on Protecting Freedom while Combating Extremism
Today Rebecca MacKinnon, Director of the Ranking Digital Rights project at New America, will testify at a congressional hearing on “The Evolution o...
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AWS-3 Auction Ends; Wheeler Says Incentive Auction Will Start Next Year as Planned
“The U.S. Government sucking $45 billion in capital out of the wireless industry is a tragedy, not a victory,” said Michael Calabrese, director of ...
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AT&T, Verizon Fight to Exclude Mobile From Obama’s Web Rules
In 2010, “the iPhone was relatively new and the vast majority of Internet usage was still on wireline networks,” Calabrese said in an interview. “N...
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Obama Wraps Up India Visit; Banned Pakistani Militant Leader Gives Speech; USAID Suspends Major Contractor for Afghanistan
U.S. President Barack Obama urged Indians to address climate change, overcome religious divisions, and promote gender equality, while addressing an...
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How Technology Is Changing the Family Tree: A Future Tense Event Recap
At a Future Tense event in New York City last week, Jacobs, along with the author Maud Newton; Chris Whitten, the CEO of the collaborative family h...
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Charlie Hebdo’s Rights and Wrongs
The easiest way to compound the tragedy in Paris would be to use the deaths of Charlie Hebdo’s editor, Stéphane Charbonnier, and 11 others to fan t...
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Here's What You Need to Know About the Financial Aid Program Obama Quietly Killed
"We knew the year-round Pell Grant program had a reputation of being way more expensive than everyone had thought," Miller says, "but what we reall...