What Do Artificial Intelligence Researchers Think of the Risks of AI?
By Ramez Naam Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and Bill Gates have recently expressed concern that development of AI could lead to a ‘killer AI’ scenario, and potentially to the extinction of humanity. None...
View ArticleTortoise vs the Hare; Will McConnell salvage the Patriot act?
By Matthew Crist Aesop’s fable of the Tortoise and the Hare has something to teach us about the current showdown between Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul regarding the PATRIOT Act and USA FREEDOM Act....
View Article7 Reasons Libertarians Should Check Out Voice & Exit
You Should Check Out Voice & Exit Conference in Austin: Here’s 7 Reasons Why By Avens O’Brien This June 20th & 21st, a large community of innovative, creative individuals will be gathering in...
View ArticleRand Vows To Force Patriot Act To Expire
By Rachel Stoltzfoos Republican senator and presidential candidate Rand Paul vowed Saturday to force the Patriot Act to expire Sunday night. The Senate will reconvene with just hours to either extend...
View ArticlePATRIOT Act dies; FREEDOM Act in limbo
By Matthew Crist If you owned a private business and 89% of your customers did not approve of how you ran the business, did not like your product, and did not like you, then you would promptly go out...
View ArticleHere’s Everything You Need To Know About The Patriot Act Changes
By Casey Harper Majority Leader Mitch McConnell suffered a serious embarrassment over the weekend when Congress let certain key provisions of the Patriot Act expire at 12:01 a.m. Monday morning. At...
View ArticleCongress Demands Answers From FBI On Domestic Spy Planes
By Bedford After a series of recent reports exposed the FBI’s fleet of domestic spy planes, Congress is demanding answers. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, a Republican, wrote a...
View ArticleGreg Gutfeld Calls Rand Paul Despicable After Ending PATRIOT Act
Greg Gutfeld on Fox News had harsh words for Rand Paul after the Kentucky senator almost single-handedly caused the PATRIOT act to sunset. Gutfeld launched into Paul, calling him “despicable,” after...
View ArticleNew App Allows Neighbors to Tattletale on Water Wasters in Cali
By: Laura Meyers In the wake of California’s four-year long drought, the Placer County Water Agency has created two new smart phone apps to help citizens track and report wasteful water usage. One is a...
View ArticleEllen Pao Issues New Censorship Edict For Reddit [PODCAST]
Reddit bans ‘Fat People Hate,’ other subreddits under new anti-harassment policy By: Ryan Carrillo PODCAST – Subscribe on iTunes Ellen Pao, CEO of Reddit, or Chairman Pao as some users on Reddit have...
View Article5 Machines That Liberated Women
By: Laura Meyers Did you know that some of the most liberating technologies for women in history were created by male entrepreneurs? Those dirty misogynists. Men probably only invented such things for...
View ArticleIs This The Dumbest Patent Troll Ever?
Congress is currently working through the arduous process of passing a long-overdue reform to patent laws designed to curb the widely known and widely loathed practice known as patent trolling. Or, as...
View ArticleDrones Help Prevent Shark Attacks in Shallow Waters
By: Laura Meyers A new use for drone technology is being utilized on a Los Angeles beach to help survey for sharks roaming in shallow waters. This new tool makes its debut alongside the news of two...
View ArticleDepartment of Defense May Be Getting New Hoverbikes [VIDEO]
By Geoffrey Ingersoll This new hoverbike looks like something straight out of a futuristic sci-fi movie, but the future is here people, and it is awesome. A Maryland based engineering company called...
View ArticleIf Video Games Like Doom Cause Violence, Why Is Violent Crime Going Down?
By R. Brownell The cult classic video game “Doom” is coming back for a series re-launch, with a vengeance! Riddled with controversy since its debut in the early 90’s, “Doom” has been accused of being...
View ArticleDC Police Sending Body Cameras To Mostly Black Neighborhoods
By Josh Fatzick After a long battle with the city council over funding, The Metropolitan Police Department is now going ahead with its plan to issue body cameras to officers throughout the city....
View ArticleFeds Beg Court Not To Ban Your Samsung Galaxy
By Peter Fricke On Monday, the federal agency that oversees trade policy recommended dismissing patent infringement claims that could lead to a ban on U.S. sales of the Samsung Galaxy line of phones....
View ArticleHow States Are Fighting to Keep Towns From Offering Their Own Broadband
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View ArticleNeighbor shoots down man’s hexacopter in drone vs. shotgun battle
By: Laura Meyers Scene: In a rural, gun-toting libertarian republic, two neighborly men had a face-off. The first neighbor was testing his self-constructed drone when all of a sudden, his neighbor...
View ArticleChicago To Apply 9% ‘Netflix Tax’
By: Ryan Carrillo It was only a matter of time before Chicago’s Democrats came up with a way to grab a bigger slice of the pie from the tech industry. The Chicago Tribune reports that on Wednesday, the...
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