April 13, 2016

Senators' Encryption Measure Adds New Fuel to Apple-FBI Debate

Technology and Internet companies would have to provide government agencies with access to data when served with a court order under long-awaited draft legislation crafted by two top senators.

Source: Bloomberg Politics

Harrington Breaks Down Cruz, Trump Paths to Nomination

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Carson Aide To Blacks: The Clintons Will Say 'Whatever They Need To Say' To Get Black Votes [VIDEO]

Hillary plays 'the race card'

Via: The Daily Caller

Regina Dugan exits Google to lead Facebook's Building 8, a new R&D lab

Regina Dugan Talent wars may never cease in Silicon Valley. Facebook today announced it has hired former Google Vice President of advanced technology and projects, Regina Dugan, to head up a new group dubbed Building 8. According to a company statement, Dr. Dugan's department will combine R&D with product development, and focus on technologies that "fluidly blend physical and digital… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Rapper Ice Cube: Donald Trump Is What Americans Love

Rapper and actor Ice Cube, who was recently inducted into the Rock and Rock Hall of Fame with his band N.W.A., discusses Donald Trump on "With All Due Respect."

Source: Bloomberg Politics

"Ferguson effect" documented in Chicago

(Paul Mirengoff) Rob Arthur and Jeff Asher at FiveThrityEight show that arrests have declined and gun violence has spiked since the release of the video showing Laquan McDonald being shot and killed by the police. This is evidence of the "Ferguson effect." Arthur and Asher explain: After some cities saw a rise in crime last year, police chiefs and even the head of the FBI suggested that the United States was experiencing

Source: Power Line

Activists Lobby for 'Panama Papers' Questions at Democratic Debate

Advocates for corporate tax reform are pressing CNN to ask Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders about how each plans to deal with "corporate secrecy havens" in the United States at Thursday's Democratic debate.

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GOP leaders scramble to rescue Puerto Rico from $72B debt

House GOP leaders scrambled Thursday to rally support for a bill that rescues Puerto Rico from $72 billion in bond debt by imposing an oversight board to audit the U.S. territory's finances and put it on a path toward fiscal responsibility.

Yet conservatives on the House Natural Resources Committee threatened ...

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Celebrate The End Of Kobe Bryant's Historic Career With These Photos [SLIDESHOW]

He is one of the best ever

Via: The Daily Caller

Legal health isn't easy for digital health companies

health With the recent announcement of the Apple CareKit, an open-source platform to simplify the development of healthcare apps for iOS devices, it appears that the digital health industry is primed to become even more robust in 2016. As the convergence of healthcare and technology continues, technology companies (and investors) are increasingly finding themselves lost in a thicket of unique… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Trump Aide Scoffs at Zuckerberg Comment on Border Walls: CNBC

"I think I'll take Mark Zuckerberg seriously when he gives up all of his private security, moves out of his posh neighborhood, and comes live in a modest neighborhood near a border town, and then I'm sure his attitude would change," Donald Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson says in CNBC interview. NOTE: Facebook CEO Zuckerberg said yday he hears "fearful voices" in the call for building walls on the border -- centerpiece of Trump campaiogn -- when focus should be on bridges Pioerson: "Self-righte

Source: Bloomberg Politics

MSNBC: Clintons Trying to Have it Both Ways on Crime Law

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Alabama Gov. Allegedly Used State Helicopter To Fly His Wallet To Him

Forgot it after fighting with wife over alleged affair

Via: The Daily Caller

Google launches distributed version of its TensorFlow machine learning system

TensorFlow_--_an_Open_Source_Software_Library_for_Machine_Intelligence Google today announced the launch of version 0.8 of TensorFlow, its open source library for doing the hard computation work that makes machine learning possible. Normally, a small point update like this wouldn't be all that interesting, but with this version, TensorFlow can now run the training processes for building machine learning models across hundreds of machines in parallel.… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Verizon CEO: Sanders Has 'Uninformed,' 'Contemptible' Views

Bernie Sanders' accusation that Verizon Communications doesn't pay its fair share of taxes is "just plain wrong," company CEO Lowell McAdam says in LinkedIn post. McAdam also challenges Sanders to show him a company that's done more to invest in America than Verizon McAdam: "When rhetoric becomes disconnected from reality, we've crossed a dangerous line. We deserve better from people aspiring to be President"

Source: Bloomberg Politics

Kornacki: Democrats Not Ready to Unite Behind Clinton

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April 12, 2016

The Year in Law, from The Green Bag

(Steven Hayward) I'm still chortling over the heartburn created on the left by George Mason University's coup of naming its law school after Antonin Scalia, especially since I am certain that Virginia's squalid partisan governor and raging Clintonite Terry McAwful wanted to prevent it, but couldn't. The Scalia Law School at George Mason University also happens to publish the most interesting and worthwhile law review in the nation—the Green Bag. I made

Source: Power Line

Elin Suleymanov, Azerbaijan envoy, says U.S. help needed to avert regional security meltdown

Azerbaijan's top diplomat in Washington said the U.S. must do more to deal with rising instability in his region, lest tensions that have already drawn in both Turkey and Russia spiral into more violence like the clashes that rocked the Nagorno-Karabakh region earlier this month.

While Ambassador Elin Suleymanov said ...

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Bill De Blasio Doubles Down On Racist Remarks [VIDEO]

But Bronx residents blast 'bull crap' skit

Via: The Daily Caller

Obama rejects Supreme Court's contraception trade-off

The administration shot down the Supreme Court's effort to forge a compromise on Obamacare's contraceptive mandate, saying Tuesday that the justices' alternative proposal would set up too many hurdles for the government and insurers.

Instead, the Justice Department asked the court to stick with President Obama's current plans, which require ...

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