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Many U.S. cities are not prepared for aging Baby Boomer population

March 26th, 2012 at 10:00 am » Comments (0)

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The nation’s population of those 65 and older will double between 2000 and 2030.
As aging Baby Boomers move out of the workforce and into retirement, few communities have started to think long term about how to plan and redesign services for them.



Social media role in police investigations growing

March 19th, 2012 at 11:21 am » Comments (0)

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88 percent of law enforcement agencies use social media to investigate crimes.
Cincinnati police investigators stumbled upon an online video last year showing an act of armed robbery, helpfully taped by the perpetrators themselves.  The city’s Real Time Crime Center analysts found the footage on a Facebook page while using the popular [...]



The health insurance industry could be destroyed by a $1000 test

March 10th, 2012 at 9:12 am » Comments (0)

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The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act bars insurers from denying coverage or raising premiums on individuals who show a genetic predisposition toward particular diseases.
The cost of sequencing an individual genome will soon be less than $1,000, reports the New York Times. That’s not nothing, but given what most health care costs, it’s [...]



295 words and phrases blocked by Chinese internet censors

March 10th, 2012 at 8:53 am » Comments (0)

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The Chinese government is not shy about its Internet censorship, even launching an official campaign known as the Golden Shield Project, or “Great Firewall.”
Most people in the world who get into trouble on Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites fail to exercise a bit of healthy self-censorship. A [...]



U.S. Department of Defense wants more control over the internet

March 1st, 2012 at 11:53 am » Comments (0)

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The U.S. government says it must govern Internet technology more closely to protect against cyberattacks.
The research that led to the internet may have been funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, but freewheeling innovation created the patchwork of privately owned technology that makes up the Internet today. Now the U.S. government is trying [...]



German post offices to cash in on e-waste

February 12th, 2012 at 7:48 pm » Comments (0)

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Sending e-waste to better destination.
Mobile telephones and personal computing devices have taken a lot of business out of the post office. Personal letters and corporate mailings now largely have been replaced by digital-age communications.
But the post office may get the last laugh. In Germany, the post office plans to make a good business by collecting [...]



Cable companies lobby FCC to increase your bill and limit competition

February 9th, 2012 at 10:09 am » Comments (0)

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Currently cable companies must deliver broadcast channels in a way that enables tuners to display those channels without any extra hardware.
Cable companies are suffering from flat and declining cable TV subscription numbers.  So now cable companies are lobbying the FCC to force every cable subscriber to rent cable boxes or cable [...]



Too much passenger screening is making airports less secure

February 8th, 2012 at 10:41 am » Comments (0)

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Stricter security measures n U.S. airports is making air travel less safe.
Ever stricter security measures in place in U.S. airports is making air travel less safe and airports more vulnerable, according to University of Illinois mathematics professor Sheldon H. Jacobson. The reason is too many resources are spent screening passengers [...]



Congress ok’s bill that opens skies in U.S. to unmanned drones

February 7th, 2012 at 12:03 pm » Comments (0)

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Unmanned drones controlled by remote operators on the ground will fly in the same airspace as airliners, cargo planes, business jets and private aircraft.
A final congressional bill was approved Monday to speed the nation’s switch from radar to an air traffic control system based on GPS technology, and to open U.S. skies [...]



Congress and the EU are fighting to change Google’s privacy policy

February 3rd, 2012 at 12:04 pm » Comments (0)

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Are you ready for Google’s new privacy policy?
Google’s new privacy policy has already caused a stir among users. Now, Congress and EU regulators are sniffing around the changes and aren’t happy about them — but Google doesn’t seem to care in the slightest.
According to The Hill, house lawmakers questioned Google representatives for two hours yesterday [...]



More Americans say cheat on your income taxes

January 31st, 2012 at 11:59 am » Comments (0)

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Uncle Sam has been given some good news: The vast majority of Americans still believe that you should never cheat on your taxes — or, at least, that’s what they tell the pollsters representing the Internal Revenue Service Oversight Board.



Is America in danger of collapsing?

January 31st, 2012 at 10:46 am » Comments (0)

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The 2012 presidential election is the most critical in the modern history of America, according to GOP candidate Newt Gingrich.  And when Mitt Romney says America must change its direction, he is absolutely right. The information that follows will explain why.



Twitter to censor tweets on a country-by-country basis

January 27th, 2012 at 1:00 pm » Comments (0)

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Some Twitter users are planning to go all of Saturday without tweeting to show their displeasure.
There are fears of Twitter censorship among bloggers and activists from China, the Middle East and Latin America as new Twitter policies could allow governments to censor messages, stifling free expression.



Comparing the Senate and House crowdfunding proposals

January 21st, 2012 at 10:51 am » Comments (0)

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The differences aren’t miles apart, but not inches either.
As the topic for our Monday’s Startup Junkie Underground, the House (H.R. 2930) and Senate (S.1791) have proposed competing Bills on the topic of crowdfunding. It’s important, however, to know the differences between the two, because the devil is in the details. And, when it comes [...]



Wikipedia to go dark on Wednesday, Google to join protest against SOPA

January 17th, 2012 at 1:58 pm » Comments (0)

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“[SOPA and its Senate counterpart Protect IP] allow people with lots of money, and lots of lawyers to take down Internet sites they don’t like”
Wednesday will be a day against an anti-piracy bill as the world’s biggest websites call for a day of dramatic action.  They fear the legislation will reshape the [...]



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