Water key to cooling Australian cities
A group that comprises Australia's top water experts has welcomed a federal government plan to make cities greener and cooler.
View ArticleYoung Chinese scale Great Firewall to flood Taiwan media
The Facebook page of Taiwan's president-elect was flooded Thursday with tens of thousands of pro-China comments following a campaign by young mainlanders to jump the country's "Great Firewall" into...
View ArticleThanks to big data, US parties know all about voters
If you're an American voter and have provided personal information to a company, chances are data groups have shared it with political parties to help them target potential supporters.
View ArticleWhat DuPont's deep R&D cuts mean for science
During the last century, private companies, as well as illustrious universities, were known for great exploratory research. But those days may soon be a memory if DuPont's recent layoffs are any...
View ArticleFunding issues plague Kentucky's proposed high speed network
KentuckyWired was supposed to be a can't-miss project, a high-tech solution that would help revive the floundering Appalachian economy.
View ArticleFacebook announces stricter policy on firearms sales
Facebook says it's cracking down on online gun sales, with a new policy that bars private individuals from advertising or selling firearms on the world's largest social network.
View ArticleNetflix's VPN ban cannot cure TV studios' chronic headaches
In mid-January, Netflix announced a ban on the use of proxies, unblockers and virtual private networks (VPNs) – all technical work-arounds to view movies and TV programs unavailable in the subscriber's...
View ArticleProtecting data assets with two-factor authentication
To better protect the Institute's data – including employee data – from future cyber risks, the Office of Information Technology (OIT) will begin deploying two-factor authentication to early adopters...
View ArticleObama administration plans new high-level cyber official
The Obama administration is creating a new high-level federal official to coordinate cybersecurity across civilian agencies and to work with military and intelligence counterparts, as part of its 2017...
View ArticleObama seeks cybersecurity boost to replace 'ancient' tech (Update)
President Barack Obama said Tuesday he is asking Congress for $3.1 billion to update the government's archaic computer systems to protect them from cyberattacks as part of a new, centralized effort to...
View ArticleAn uneasy marriage: planners, public and the market struggle to work well...
Governments regularly extol the benefits of involving citizens and the private sector in planning land use and providing infrastructure.
View ArticleNew reports show positive and negative effects of Louisiana school voucher...
The Louisiana Scholarship Program has widely varying effects on students, according to a series of studies released jointly by the School Choice Demonstration Project at the University of Arkansas and...
View ArticleThinking beyond jobs with sustainability in the title
Sustainability Management alum James Ossman ('15) approached the program searching for a new toolkit of hard skills. He was looking for a career transition into the private sector, and was interested...
View ArticleStudy finds three key factors to crowdfunding success
For entrepreneurs using crowdfunding to bring new products to market, high quality photos and video, previous crowdfunding success and positive comments from backers are the keys to a successful...
View ArticleWorld Bank climate policy officer describes keys to success of the Paris...
The historic climate agreement reached by more than 190 nations in December 2015 will require more than just the individual efforts of participating countries to meet their commitments to mitigate...
View ArticleJudge approves settlement in Sony Pictures hacking case
A judge on Wednesday approved a multimillion dollar settlement in a class-action lawsuit filed by former Sony Pictures Entertainment employees whose private information was stolen in a massive data...
View ArticleTurkey passes long-awaited data protection law
A long-awaited new data protection law came into force in Turkey on Thursday, just days after it emerged that private details about some 50 million citizens had been leaked.
View ArticlePersonal data revolution takes first step
A new way of managing personal information set to maximise people's chances of privacy is being developed by computer scientists, led by a researcher at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).
View ArticlePrivacy wars pit tech firms vs. the feds
Companies like Apple and Microsoft are pushing back against government surveillance in the courts, arguing that federal authorities have gone too far in obtaining chats, emails and other private...
View ArticleTwitter's new China head wants to 'work together' with state media
The new head of Twitter in China has called for "closer partnership" with Communist Party-backed state media, leading many of the social network's users to question her appointment.
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