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South Africa is in the midst of a major overhaul to its copyright system, in particular the "limitations and exceptions" that are the escape valves within copyright for such core
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In @rowanmg's @techreview feature "Unmade in America," we get a vivid picture of how little industrial capacity remains in America and how much that has harmed the country's resilience to
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High stakes tests serve no pedagogical purpose; however, they do serve an important SOCIAL purpose, namely, they convert cash into the appearance of academic achievement. 1/ Since scores on these
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You've probably heard that @FortniteGame publishers Epic are suing @Apple over the right to sell software to Iphone owners without cutting Apple in for a 30% vig on every sale.
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The digital rights movement has a longstanding hostility to the term "intellectual property," raising two objections to the term:1. It's incoherent: patents, copyright, trademarks and other "IP" have little in
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Genomist @AdamRutherford is a gifted science communicator; the podcast he co-hosts, "The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry" is one of the best popular science programs I've ever heard: charming
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I'm a science fiction writer, so I quite enjoy thinking about self-driving cars. They make for really interesting analogies about data, liability, self-determination, information security and openness. 1/ Sometimes I
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On the one hand, high-stakes testing is pedagogically bankrupt, but on the other hand, it sure produces numbers that universities can focus on increasing, and then trumpet when those numbers
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Last year, the information security world was baffled and frustrated by the tale of Justin Wynn and @Ainchant, penetration testers who were hired to break into a Des Moines courthouse
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Google is facing anti-monopoly enforcement action in the EU and the USA and the UK, with more to come, and the company is starting to get nervous. 1/ It's just
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We think of laws as being the texts of bills that pass out of Congress and get signed by the president. But the law is really defined by the judicial
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Peter Thiel styles himself a defender of liberty, and every time he does, someone points out this article he wrote in which he said that democracy is incompatible with freedom
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