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FAA Says Yes to Civilian Drones—and No to Flying Robots
The technology that makes it possible to build self-driving cars is moving much faster than the laws that would allow them to hit the roads. The same pattern may play out with self-flying drones. The Federal Aviation Administration outlined for the first time how it will deal with the rise of the drones (pdf), moving from a system in which it issues approval on a drone-by-drone basis to a more systematic process.
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FBI feared much-loved science fiction author Isaac Asimov was Soviet agent
Isaac Asimov was one of America’s most prolific and best-loved science fiction authors, publishing more than 500 volumes in a career that spanned five decades. But newly released papers show that, in the 1960s, he was unknowingly embroiled in intrigue more suited to a John Le Carre novel, as the FBI investigated him on suspicion of being a Soviet spy.
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Believe it: Conspiracy theories live on
Political conspiracy theories may date back to ancient times, but in the modern era they can go from fringe to famous in less than a work week.
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New bill would give streaming video services same protections as cable providers
Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) is introducing legislation today that would put streaming videos services on similar legal footing to traditional cable services, potentially prohibiting anticompetitive practices. Under the legislation, online video providers would be given the same protections that satellite providers were given in the Cable Television and Consumer Protection Act of 1992, which was made to stop cable companies from blocking competition from satellite providers.
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Our Government Has Weaponized the Internet. Here's How They Did It
The internet backbone — the infrastructure of networks upon which internet traffic travels — went from being a passive infrastructure for communication to an active weapon for attacks. According to revelations about the QUANTUM program, the NSA can “shoot” (their words) an exploit at any target it desires as his or her traffic passes across the backbone.
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HealthCare.gov targeted by more than a dozen hacking attempts
Hackers have attempted more than a dozen attacks on HealthCare.gov, the struggling website at the center of President Obama's signature healthcare law, according to published news reports citing a top US official.
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Proposed ethanol reduction could hurt farmers
The Obama administration proposed on Friday slashing federal requirements for U.S. biofuel use in 2014, partially bowing to pressure from the petroleum industry and attempting to prevent a projected fuel crunch next year.
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FBI warns of U.S. government breaches by Anonymous hackers
Activist hackers linked to the collective known as Anonymous have secretly accessed U.S. government computers in multiple agencies and stolen sensitive information in a campaign that began almost a year ago, the FBI warned this week.
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Can ObamaCare be saved?
On Friday, 39 Democrats in the House of Representatives voted in support of a bill put forward by GOP Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan that proponents claimed would allow millions of people who had received cancellation notices since ObamaCare went into effect October 1 to stay on their health plans.
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Up to 40% Of The Obamacare Website Isn't Even Built Yet
Up to 40 percent of the technology needed to run the new Obamacare health insurance marketplace has not yet been built and will not be ready when insurance companies start sending in bills when coverage begins January 1, the project manager of HealthCare.gov told the U.S. Congress on Tuesday.
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'The Worst of the Worst'
A U.S. ally is treating a would-be nation as a prison camp - and we're doing nothing about it.
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US Holiday Celebrating Bounty Comes as Government Cuts Food Program for Poor
The American holiday of Thanksgiving celebrates bountiful harvests with traditional family feasts. This year it comes just as the government assistance food stamps program is reducing benefit...
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Another HealthCare.gov delay announced
Small businesses will not be able to enroll online in the new health insurance exchanges until November 2014, the Obama administration announced Wednesday.
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US govt caught using pirated software for military, settles for $50mn
The Obama administration has agreed to pay Apptricity US$50 million for pirating the company’s logistics software the US Army used beyond contracted parameters.
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H-P will replace Verizon for web-hosting services on HealthCare.gov
The Department of Health and Human Services will replace Verizon Communications Inc. VZ -0.25% 's Terremark subsidiary as its web-hosting provider for the federal health-insurance marketplace, according to people familiar with the matter, presenting a new challenge to the rollout of the Obama administration's signature health-care initiative.
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Wal-Mart arrests could fuel “a new political movement of the disenfranchised,” Grayson tells Salon
Firebrand Congressman Alan Grayson hailed Black Friday civil disobedience in an afternoon interview, saying the protests by Wal-Mart workers and supporters show “the dissatisfaction of the middle class” since the 2008 financial crash “coming to a slow boil.”
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Tensions high as Healthcare.gov relaunch looms
Computer specialists are scrambling to meet one of the world's biggest deadlines for a working website: Healthcare.gov's proposed overhaul is due Sunday. The website for Barack Obama's signature health care plan struggled to keep up with crush of visitors after launching in October.
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Falsifying government reports to get re-elected?
When government pays for something, it gets more of it. For the past five years, Congress has been pushing “emergency” subsidies for long-term unemployment, and, not surprisingly, we’ve been getting more joblessness — a fact some have been working overtime to conceal.
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Watching the Watch List: Landmark Case Goes to Trial over Massive U.S. Terrorism "No-Fly" Database
With hundreds of thousands of people now on the government’s terrorist watch lists, a closely watched trial begins today in San Francisco. Stanford University Ph.D. student Rahinah Ibrahim is suing the U.S. government after she was barred from flying from Malaysia back to the United States in 2005 to complete her studies at Stanford after her name was placed on the list.
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Microsoft blasts "government snooping," pledges to enhance encryption
Xbox maker says it is "alarmed" by recent allegations of government's attempts to collect private customer data, vows to expand encryption for products and services.
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