technology
End of the post office as a public institution?
February 12, 2013This year the post office will close half its processing centers. By the end of this summer Saturday delivery is scheduled to end. Over the next year over 3,000 local post offices will close.
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Obama, FCC expanding public Wi-Fi
February 5, 2013The move is intended to decrease network congestion and enhance media (such as streaming HD videos). It is also an important shift, however, in the direction of free Internet for everyone.
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Google-funded spy tech to prey on poachers
December 18, 2012Both surveillance technology and Google have generated controversyt. But in opposition to the growing international threat of poaching, however, many feel they can be put to good use.
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South Africa deploys anti-poaching plane
December 5, 2012"This is a war. You cannot take a stick to a gunfight."
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The end of Internet freedom: Coming soon to a computer near you
December 4, 2012The International Telecommunications Union is convening a conference that would give the group (a part of the United Nations) crippling new powers over the Internet.
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