Science & Technology

Latest Drop in Oil Prices Puts OPEC in a Bind

OPEC still thinks it has significance in "rebalancing" the world's oil market. U.S. energy producers, on the other hand, keep on producing, regardless....

Bob Adelmann May 30, 2018

Pentagon Prepares to Deploy Advanced Robot Soldiers

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. May 21, 2018

The Department of Defense will soon spend about $1 billion to deploy robot soldiers in the field, alongside, and eventually in place of,...

Amazon’s Alexa to Come Standard With Some New Houses. Is It a Good Idea?

James Murphy May 11, 2018

Amazon has been shown to have a liberal bias. That being the case, can consumers trust Alexa to be objective while assisting to...

Merrill Lynch Sees “Risk” of $100 Oil in 2019, Thanks to Iran Sanctions

Bob Adelmann May 11, 2018

Will there be $100 per barrel oil again soon? It's possible, but it would not be permanent. ...

Citigroup: U.S. Will Be World’s Largest Oil Exporter by Next Year

Bob Adelmann May 9, 2018

Citigroup announced last week that exports of crude and finished oil products from the United States would overtake Saudi Arabia’s by next year....

In Facebook Data-breach Scandal, U.K. Privacy Watchdog Demands Data be Released to U.S. Citizen

C. Mitchell Shaw May 8, 2018

The Cambridge Analytica data-breach scandal continues to haunt Facebook: The British Information Commissioner's Office ordered Cambridge Analytica's parent company to provide an American...

In the Wake of Cambridge Analytica Breach, Facebook Considers Subscription Plan, Other Changes

C. Mitchell Shaw May 5, 2018

Necessity is the mother of invention. It appears that scandal may be a mother of innovation. Scrambling in the wake of the Cambridge...

IEA Declares OPEC Has Accomplished Its Mission: Oil Is Now “Balanced”

Bob Adelmann April 23, 2018

OPEC is no doubt rejoicing in its accomplishment of raising the price of crude oil by restricting output, but that rejoicing is likely...

Surveillance Hawks Plan New Legislative Attacks on Encryption

C. Mitchell Shaw April 18, 2018

The battle over privacy and encryption is heating up. Again. ...

Oneway Social Media CEO Responds to Conservatives Calling for Internet Regulations

C. Mitchell Shaw April 16, 2018

Some of those voices making the loudest calls for government intervention are coming from a few alt-tech sites that are very small in...

Human Trafficking Website, Backpage, Seized by Federal Agents

C. Mitchell Shaw April 7, 2018

The Backpage website — notorious for prostitution and human trafficking — was seized Friday by federal authorities. This action was taken “as part...

Internet Interlopers: It Isn’t Just Facebook

C. Mitchell Shaw April 5, 2018

While Facebook has been in the headlines over the past few weeks as a result of its practice of harvesting and misusing users’...

Trump Facebook Data Manipulation: Obama Did the Same and More in 2012

C. Mitchell Shaw April 3, 2018

With all the reporting on the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica data breach having been used to manipulate voters for Donald Trump in the 2016 election,...