Freedom to Tinker

Google's legal team has extraordinary power to decide which videos can be seen by audiences around the world, according to Jeffrey Rosen's piece, Google's Gatekeepers in yesterday's New York Times ...

Thus far, the debate over broadband deployment has generally been between those who believe that private telecom incumbents should be in charge of planning, financing and building next-generation b...

Minnesota election officials are hand-counting millions of ballots, as they perform a full recount in the ultra-close Senate race between Norm Coleman and Al Franken. Minnesota Public Radio offers ...

The TSA, which oversees U.S. airport security, comes in for a lot of criticism -- much of it deserved. But sometimes commentators let their dislike for the TSA get the better of them, and they offe...

Last week researchers from Google and the Centers for Disease Control unveiled a cool new research result, showing that they could gauge the level of influenza infections in a region of the U.S. by...

Several interesting things are happening in the wild world of digital photography as it's colliding with digital video. Most notably, the new Canon 5D Mark II (roughly $2700) can record 1080p video...

Ed recently made a number of predictions about election day ("Election 2008: What Might Go Wrong"). In terms of long lines and voting machine problems, his predictions were pretty spot on.
On elect...

With Barack Obama's election, we're likely to see a revival of the network neutrality debate. Thus far the popular debate over the issue has produced more heat than light. On one side have been peo...

Over at Ars Technica, the final installment of my series on self-driving cars is up. In this installment I focus on the policy implications of self-driving technologies, asking about regulation, li...

Tom Lee wonders about a question that Ed has pondered in the past: how much bandwidth does one human being need?
I'm suspicious of estimates of exploding per capita bandwidth consumption. Yes, our ...