The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has filed a motion with the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit requesting that the court allow…
The House Judiciary Committee is considering a bill (.pdf) to amend the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 USC 1030. I've redlined the current statute (.doc)…
The Center for Internet and Society once again participated in National Robotics Week, organized by the Robotics Caucus of the U.S. Congress and leading robotic…
I am excited to announce that Oxford University Press has published my book, Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources. It has been almost a deca…
Google has posted an inspiring video (with audio captions) of a legally blind individual riding in the front left seat of one of its self-driving cars as that c…
In 1994 Holly Collins became an international fugitive, hunted by the FBI after she grabbed her three children and went on the run. Holly felt she had no choice…
An interesting study was released earlier this month by a group at Carnegie Mellon University titled “censorship and deletion practices in Chinese social media.…
The news this week that that EB discontinues the print edition of the encyclopedia should not too much of a surprise. This should be seen in a larger context.…
“Nothing is going to catch this car by surprise…. It’s going to see hundreds of feet in all directions. [You’re] not going to have a pedestrian ‘come out of now…
On the final day of its regular scheduled session, Florida's Senate moved rapidly to unanimously pass CB/HB 1207, the autonomous driving bill that Florida&#…
How accurate is the Patent and Trademark Office? Can its examiners tell good patents from bad? Many doubt that they can and the PTO is often criticized for allo…
The Examiner is reporting that a prototype drone crashed into a Texas Montgomery County police vehicle, causing little damage. No doubt this event will touch o…