David Mayman has a vision for personal aviation that he’s spent the past dozen years and millions of his personal fortune chasing. He hasn’t accepted the convention that jetpacks were just a misguided fantasy for the future; his company, Jetpack Aviation…

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Smartphone game makers working with Nintendo are finding the home of Mario the plumber is putting up obstacles to scoring high revenue.

The lure of "federation"
for internet services is potent, since it allows disparate providers to
interoperate and users to choose the provider that (most) meets their
needs—or to become their own provider. Many of the longtime services, such as email, web…

Yes, you have been to 30 countries in 5 years, but have you really "been" there? How many places do you really know and understand?

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Researchers digging into ways around the von Neumann bottleneck.

Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement of A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking is not some dramatic pivot: it is a growth opportunity for Facebook and a challenge for regulators.

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Empires](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidental_Empires) by [Robert X.
Cringely](...

The actions by federal regulators come as part of a broader deregulatory push by the Trump administration.

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The Massachusetts senator, who is running for president, announced a regulatory plan aimed at breaking up large tech companies and “unwind tech mergers that illegally undermine competition.”

Apple CEO Tim Cook said there's a "mismatch" between the skills learned in college and skills that are necessary for many businesses in the future.

Submit a public comment opposing the disastrous proposal to sell out the heart of the Arctic Refuge for oil drilling.