Outside the Beltway

When AI search provides some morning levity.

The prize: sick and dead US children

It is as if qualifications for positions of power matter.

Machines have been eliminating blue collar jobs for decades. Now they’re coming for white collar jobs.

Ask a simple question, be surprised at the results.

The relationship appears to be an inverse one.

A day of AI, tariffs, and world historic stupidity.

America’s edge in innovation, built over a century, is being squandered in weeks.

Outsourcing efficiency.

We can’t fire the popular Chinese spyware, it quits.

Pornhub has banned itself in nineteen states to the delight of legislators.

Closing the barn door after the horse has left.

A regional pilot program could be expanding.

Why the rent is too damn high.

We’re about to test the limits of existing copyright law.

The skies are getting a little friendlier thanks to technology.

Its time has passed.

A technological miracle with obvious potential for abuse.

Trials of mRNA treatments are going well.

The psychologist who won a Nobel in economics is gone at 90.

A long-predicted threat has emerged.

A well-intentioned but likely doomed effort.

A growing scourge may be next to impossible to stop.

Our infrastructure was not designed for what most Americans drive today.

A weirdly ineradicable nuisance.

The switch still doesn’t make sense for most Americans.

Are we leaving too many people behind?

It’s just resting.

The theory of the Internet clashes with its reality.

Has the search goliath gotten worse?

The Justice Department claims the search giant abused its power.

The Adobe cofounder who revolutionized printing is gone at 82.

When something simple isn’t so simple.

A simple typo misdirected millions of emails intended for the US military.

You can’t fire me, I quit!

Decades of innovation may be coming to fruition.

The weatherman don’t know which way the wind blows.

As much as we complain about them, they’ve become indispensable for most of us.

Vague terms of use.

Should we reform the way we train a high-tech workforce?

Should the government need a warrant to get information it can buy on the open market?

Train I ride, sixteen coaches long.

Why Google isn’t AltaVista.

Who knew they got cell reception?

Will consumers put up with monthly fees on top of hefty sticker prices?

Car manufacturers are slowly removing an old format.

Some predict a fundamental restructuring of the economy.

International law enforcement agencies have made hundreds of arrests.

An odd set of Senators have a really bad idea.

A wildly ambitious goal.