The Buffalo Chronicle
Technology
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Five questions for Virginia Postrel on dynamism, glamour, and technological change
By James Pethokoukis and Virginia Postrel While we often describe American politics with the terms “left” and “right,” another key divide is dynamism versus stasis. Dynamists, argued Virginia Postrel in her 1998…
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Jamie Beard discusses the potential of geothermal energy
By James Pethokoukis and Jamie Beard Is the future of clean energy right beneath our feet? By tapping into the infrastructure and expertise of the oil and gas industry, geothermal energy could…
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SolarWinds (Russia), Microsoft (China): Time for escalation, or are cyber norms possible?
By Claude Barfield As readers of this blog know, I am a follower of the Jack Goldsmith school of thought regarding the strong yet perilous US position when it comes to cyber conflict over…
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Defining the market in the Epic Games v. Apple trial
By Daniel Lyons Early in Epic Games’ antitrust suit against Apple, presiding Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers billed the dispute as a case at the “frontier edges of antitrust law.” But the trial began not…
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Quantum computing: A national security primer
BY KLON KITCHEN Quantum computing is a rapidly advancing field of computer science that harnesses the mind-bending dynamics of quantum physics—the behavior of the universe’s smallest particles—to produce computers with vast new…
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Should Europe really be leading the world on tech policy?
BY SHANE TEWS As the Joe Biden digital economy team takes shape, the European Union’s (EU) proposed Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the Digital Services Act (DSA) loom large. The proposals —…
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What happens when the EU and Biden redesign Big Tech?
BY MARK JAMISON Some politicians, academics, and regulatory practitioners are increasingly confident that there is something wrong with the structure of Big Tech. They are equally confident that smart regulators can remold…
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Don’t call them data caps: A deep dive on usage-based broadband pricing
BY DANIEL LYONS Last week, Comcast announced plans to expand its existing usage-based broadband pricing model to northeastern markets, prompting a fresh wave of criticism by some long-time opponents of the practice. But setting aside…
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Facebook censorship board is comprised mostly of foreign nationals with ties to George Soros
The recently appointed Facebook oversight board tasked with deciding which posts get blocked from the world’s most popular social networking website is stacked with leftists and foreign nationals who will be functionally regulating the…
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Supreme Court ingests Java as Google-Oracle copyright spat boils over
BY MICHEAL ROSEN Last week, the long-simmering software dispute between Google and Oracle boiled over, as the Supreme Court heard arguments in the tech giants’ copyright fight. The story began in federal court in San Francisco…
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Most of Facebook censorship board has ties to leftwing billionaire George Soros
The recently appointed Facebook oversight board that will decide which posts get blocked from the world’s most popular social networking website is stacked with leftists, including a close friend of leftwing billionaire George Soros…
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BARFIELD: Watch Germany on Huawei and 5G
BY CLAUDE BARFIELD Europe is at the center of a worldwide debate and conflict over the role of Chinese telecom giant Huawei in the emergence of 5G technology. Within Europe, Germany occupies…
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Riders are getting raped by Uber drivers’ racketeering scam — will Taste of Country fans get bonked tonight?
An explosive report by WJLA, the ABC affiliate in Washington, indicates that racketeering practices are commonly being employed by Uber drivers to deliberately manipulate the technology’s ‘surge-pricing’ function. By cooperatively agreeing to…
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Thoughts on Facial Recognition
BY NORBERT RUG I am for the implementation of the Facial and Object Recognition System (FORS) in the Lockport schools. There I said it. I know this might be an unpopular stance…
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New York State of Health website a boon for software giant Adobe Systems
BY JAMES HUFNAGEL As part of the implementation of the 2010 federal Affordable Care Act (ACA), popularly called “Obamacare”, an online insurance exchange was created to enable New York residents to purchase…
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Government sponsored hackers breached Cornell systems in 2014 to exact ‘revenge’
BY NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS When two Cornell network administrators began a routine investigation into why a University website had rebooted, they had no idea they would be handing their passwords over to a…
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Facebook is trying to alter your mood
In a shocking revelations exposed in The Atlantic, Robinson Meyer writes that Facebook administered studies that aim to alter users’ mood by virtue of the content that is funneled into their newsfeed. From his article, Everything…
