“Seven years after its secretive launch, X is starting to spawn mind-blowing companies—and show us what an ever expanding Google means for the world.”
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/alphabet-google-x-innovation-loon-wing-graduation/
“The Commerce Department’s order should allow ZTE to at least partially resume operations, though it appears to be narrowly targeted to really only allow for maintenance and the benefit of customers, and not deployment of new products. By and large, the trade ban is still in place.”
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/3/17532508/zte-ban-us-temporarily-lifts-security-updates
“Unused stamps accounted for more than $70 million in Post Office revenue during the three years Davidson’s image was used. The court awarded Davidson a five percent royalty for those unused stamps.”
“Calling the police on nonviolent license offenses is the adult equivalent of throwing a temper tantrum on the playground, except the temper tantrum doesn’t have a chance of ending in shots fired.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/schools-have-created-a-generation-of-permit-pattys-and-bbq-beckys/
“It defies all reason that a man could go to prison for three decades for taking a sexy picture of a teenager who was deemed fully capable of consenting to sex. This is a travesty of justice, a violation of consenting adults’ sexual freedoms, an abuse of mandatory minimum sentencing, a blow to states’ rights, and an absurd waste of the FBI’s time.”
Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2018/07/05/sexy-pictures-17-child-porn-arrest
“‘Oh come on, bruh. You’re really going to tase him? He was sitting down,’ shouts the bystander who captured the incident on camera. ‘That’s crazy. That’s why I record everything.'”
Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2018/06/29/pennsylvania-lancaster-officer-tasing
“Welcome to a world where Juggalo makeup is your best shot at avoiding involuntary surveillance.”
“America’s founding document might be too politically incorrect for Facebook, which flagged and removed a post consisting almost entirely of text from the Declaration of Independence.”
Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2018/07/03/facebook-algorithm-flags-removes-declara
“No research was done and no panel formed by the banking regulator before coming down heavily on the exchanges.”
Read more: https://qz.com/1321076/bitcoin-ban-how-rbi-choked-indias-cryptocurrency-ecosystem/
“Blockchain technology could allow for bonds selling at $5, $10 or $25 each, perhaps with tokenized interest payments, while simultaneously increasing transparency.”
Read more: https://www.coindesk.com/california-citys-blockchain-token-definitely-maybe-happening/
