Craig Timberg reports: Cars will soon be so linked into wireless networks they will be like giant rolling smartphones — with calling systems, streaming video, cameras and applications capable of harnessing the unprecedented trove of data vehicles will produce about themselves and the humans who drive them. The battle over who can access all this…
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Bad laws would hurt good drones
Productive day for Ryan Calo. Here’s another article by him, this one on CNN: An Alitalia passenger jet pilot said he saw a drone over Brooklyn on Monday. Whether it’s true or not — the Federal Aviation Administration is investigating — we are going to be hearing more and more about drones in American skies….
The Catch-22 That Prevents Us From Truly Scrutinizing the Surveillance State
Ryan Calo writes: “That’s some catch, that Catch-22,” he observed. “It’s the best there is,” Doc Daneeka agreed. Joseph Heller was writing about crazy times. The setting is World War II and flying dangerous missions over Europe has taken its toll on American pilots. Many are so compromised psychologically that they probably shouldn’t be in…
College genetics classes getting personal. What could possibly go wrong?
Ryan J. Foley of Associated Press reports: Bakir Hajdarevic didn’t have to study for the most important test in a class last fall. He just had to spit — a lot. The 19-year-old freshman at the University of Iowa took an honors seminar on personal genetics in which students had the option of sending saliva…