Collaborate Disseminate
A new collection of data from MuckRock and the Electronic Frontier Foundation has shown that law enforcement agencies only have an average hit rate of 0.5 percent for automated license plate readers. Continue reading License Plate Scanners Track Millions of Drivers to Catch a Handful of Criminals
Technology is getting more adept at tracking our moves and anticipating our choices, and being watched all the time can make us feel anxious. Continue reading What Constant Surveillance Does to Your Brain
A Reddit user scraped data from every submission that got at least 1,000 upvotes and found Trump topped the list of most-used words for three years running Continue reading This Word Appears in More Reddit Post Titles Than Any Other
Russ Kick, a transparency advocate who archives government websites, downloaded the publicly-available issues before they were deleted this summer. Continue reading Obama-Shaped Ecstasy and Coke-Stuffed Globes Fill the DEA’s Deleted Drug Newsletter
But that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t make people angry. Continue reading No Evidence the White House Video of Jim Acosta Was Doctored, Forensic Expert Says
Toyota and Pizza Hut teamed up to make the prototype, which includes robots that bake your pizza en route. Continue reading This Pizza Delivery Truck Cooks Your Pie on the Road and Produces Zero Emissions
Marsha Blackburn successfully made the leap from the House to the Senate, despite the popularity of her Democratic opponent. Continue reading Net Neutrality-Opposing, Big Telecom-Backed Marsha Blackburn Wins Senate Seat
The Comcast-backed law was enacted in 2005, but allows for towns and counties to exempt their district through a local vote. Continue reading 18 Colorado Local Governments Are Voting on City-Run Internet Tuesday
Three justices wanted to reconsider a lower court’s decision on net neutrality, but couldn’t get a majority because two other conservative justices had conflicts of interest and had to recuse themselves. Continue reading Supreme Court Judges Have Too Many Conflicts of Interest to Reconsider Net Neutrality
A new study published Friday in Nature Plants showed that 36 percent of critically endangered plants produce recalcitrant seeds, which can’t be preserved. Continue reading Seed Vaults Can’t Save a Third of Critically Endangered Plants