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Building Up the U.S. Semiconductor Industry
U.S. chipmakers await monetary support from the government a year after supporting legislation was signed into law.
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Scotus to Weigh In on When Online Rants Become Criminal Threats
The US Supreme Court on Monday announced that it will consider a case involving a thorny free speech issue in the digital age: at what point does a statement made...
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Aereo Analysis: Cloud Computing at a Crossroads
The question of whether online broadcast television is to remain in the hands of a stodgy industry that once declared the VCR the enemy is being put directly before...
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Supreme Court Weighing When Online Speech Becomes Illegal Threat
When does an online threat become worthy of criminal prosecution?
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As Human Laws Grapple with Robots, There Are No Easy Answers
There's been a lot of buzz about robots lately.
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Government Wants You to Broadcast Your Driving Data—Eventually
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has announced that it's finally ready to consider regulations that...
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How the Nsa (may Have) Put a Backdoor in Rsa's Cryptography: A Technical Primer
There has been a lot of news lately about nefarious-sounding backdoors being inserted into cryptographic standards and toolkits.
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Secret Court Declassifies Opinion Providing Rationale For Metadata Sharing
For the first time, the United States' most secret court, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), has published its legal rationale as to why the ...
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