Outside the Beltway

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.

Who should pay whom for what?

A pending lawsuit seeks to settle those questions.

The future is here, whether we like it or not.

Some long-overdue safeguards are being implemented.

Should we expect privacy from our own cameras?

Hubris has set back the cause of science.

A brief primer on trauma and a link to an interview and paper on being trauma informed

Tips for how to check yourself before you wreck yourself.

I somehow missed Google’s launch of a service that solves the biggest annoyance of streaming.

The controversial AI has some interesting programming quirks.

Understandable efforts to protect their market share are alienating customers who think they’re doing nothing wrong.

The science-education gap.

You be the judge.

ChatGPT is just the latest example of a perverse phenomenon.

We’re all gonna die, folks.

A free panel on how transparent social media platforms should be about government requests

Why millenia-old concrete outlasts its modern version.

A big problem with a simple solution.

Facial recognition technology and its uses.

The Energy Department is expected to make a big announcement tomorrow.

Traffic deaths are going down in most of the world. Not here.

The company is begrudgingly complying with the EU’s requirement.

Making ourselves cooler is making the earth warmer.

When belief is more important than facts

Elon backs out.

The company’s new AI technology looks awfully familiar.

A slim majority upheld an injunction, kicking the can down the road.

“Protect and Serve” is just a slogan, not a guarantee.

The bubble may have burst.

The pandemic forced the spread of useful technology.

A splendid idea but why stop there?

It’s happened. What does it mean?

Brussels has gotten ahead of Washington in regulating mostly American-based Internet companies.

An example of when better isn’t better.

There are too many variables to make generalized calculations.

A twist on an evergreen debate.

An odd kerfuffle in local education politics.

Another morale booster for the good guys.

Intellectuals are fleeing as Soviet-style censorship returns.

They’re not missing and that points to a systemic issue

One of the great annoyances of the Internet is slowly going away.