On December 11, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order (EO) that purports to deprive states of the ability to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) – t…
Back in 2011, as Nevada was developing regulations for automated driving, there was debate about whether vehicles should have a special external signal to indic…
Berlin, April 28, 2025 - Epicenter.works, the Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF), the Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (vzbv), and Stanford Professor Barba…
I am starting to post some of my thoughts on individual questions at http://academiccopyright.typepad.com. I am trying to get all six questions done today, bu…
According to the NY Times, "At least 26 prisoners have died in American custody in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2002 in what Army and Navy investigators have…
Harvard Business School has summarily rejected applicants who had taken an early peek at the School's decision on their candidacy. Some clever person with…
Halliburton billed more than a $100 million in excess for fuel imported into Iraq (by the way, how galling must this be for Iraqis, who hold the second largest…
Monday March 14, 2005 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Room 271 Free and Open to all! Lunch Served Many of the stores and websites defend their huge collections of personal i…
The problem with the iPod is not only Apple's claim to having a monopoly on legitimate sources of purchased downloaded music (that is, Apple's claim tha…
A comment on my blog notes that iRiver music players do not have proprietary loading technologies. That comments prompts further reflection: Why do Sony and A…
Germanys Cabinet has announced its new 'eCard' (PDF German) strategy that essentially will render the 'GesundheitsCard' (HealthCard) into a univ…
The World Economic Forum releases its annual report card on "network readiness." Singapore moves to #1, the U.S. drops to #5. Here's the report.…
BBC reports that Indian state Andhra Pradesh will offer cash incentives to parents to have one girl, and one girl only. (Pictured is local hero, Sania Mirza, t…
David Brooks odd column yesterday reveals how conservative thinking has shifted on "brown-skinned" people. Recall that Brooks applauds Wolfowitz for…
My friend Julie Brof pointed me to this very cool website today for an organization called Kids With Cameras. The organization is responsible for the Oscar awa…