USA Today features a Boston Consulting Group report on America’s waning lead in industrial innovation. We’re still investing in and churning out more basic and applied research…
Tag: technology
One autopiloted Uber car smacks into a non-robot car whose human pilot was bending the rules, and humans suspend the robot program and consign the driverless-car revolution to another generation…
In more security theater, the Trump Administration has ordered airlines flying from eight relatively friendly Muslim countries to ban passengers from bringing any electronic devices larger…
House Bill 1196 originally sought to drop our mandatory school attendance age back to 16. House Education hoghoused HB 1196 last Wednesday to clamp down on…
Profs at the School of Mines are worried that renovation of McLaury Hall means they’ll lose their chalkboards: “Everybody’s really concerned that they’re going to come…
Donald Trump may not take cybersecurity threats seriously, but the South Dakota Bureau of Information and Telecommunications does. They’ve proposed House Bill 1020, which would…
In good news, House Republicans’ retreat from their sneaky effort to weaken the Office of Congressional Ethics shows that Congress will still listen to public pressure. In bad…
The world’s sixth-largest (or is it eleventh-largest?) economy has just set new energy-efficiency standards for computers: The California Energy Commission has passed sweeping energy-efficiency standards for…
If we can’t have a state ethics commission to review campaign finance reports, can we at least have a math function in the reporting software? While…