What We Need -- and Don’t Need -- From Government in the Robot Age | Michael R. Bloomberg

Michael R. Bloomberg. Photo from chicagoideas.com/years/2012/speakersMichael R. Bloomberg on how to think about wages, health insurance, and education in the wake of technological advances. June 22, ...

Russian Cyber Hacks on U.S. Electoral System Far Wider Than Previously Known | Michael Riley & Jordan Robertson

Image from: money.cnn.com/2016/10/31/technology/internet-attack-election-day/index.html Attackers said to take measure of voting systems, databases A ‘red phone’ warning to the Kremlin from Obama Whi ...

Nuclear Calendar -- June 5, 2017 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- June 5, 2017 Friends Committee on National Legislation June 6 10:00 a.m., Council member Robert White will present the Washington, DC, City Council with a ceremonial resolution in ...

Space junk could destroy satellites, hurt economies | AFP

There are an estimated 170 million pieces of so-called "space junk"—left behind after missions that can be as big as spent rocket stages or as small as paint flakes — in orbit alongside some US$700 b ...

CRISPR gene editing can cause hundreds of unintended mutations | Stephen Tsang and Laszlo T. Bito

CRISPR-associated protein Cas9 (white) from Staphylococcus aureus based on Protein Database ID 5AXW. Credit: Thomas Splettstoesser (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) May 29, 2017 (Phys.org) -- As CRISPR-Cas9 ...

US takes down huge botnet as Spain arrests notorious Russian hacker | Paul Handley

From: incapsula.comApril 11, 2017 (Phys.org) -- U.S. authorities moved Monday to take down a global computer botnet behind the massive theft of personal data and unwanted spam emails, as Spain arrest ...

Nuclear Calendar -- March 13, 2017 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- March 13, 2017 Friends Committee on National Legislation March 15 9:00-10:00 a.m., American Enterprise Institute, "The defense budget and emergency war spending: Does it help more ...

Scientists reveal new super-fast form of computer that 'grows as it computes' | PhysOrg

DNA double helix. Credit: public domain March 1, 2017 (PhysOrg) -- Researchers from The University of Manchester have shown it is possible to build a new super-fast form of computer that "grows as it ...

Nuclear Calendar -- February 22, 2017 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation February 22, 2017 Feb. 18-26 House and Senate President's Day recess. Feb. 23 Noon-1:00 p.m., Al Mauroni, U.S. Air Force Center for Uncon ...

Scientists Discover New Form Of Matter: Time Crystals | Fiona MacDonald

Kent Schimke/Flickr Perpetual motion without energy Jan. 28, 2017 (ScienceAlert.com) -- For months now, there's been speculation that researchers might have finally created time crystals -- strange c ...

Nuclear Calender -- Jan. 17, 2017 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation January 17, 2017 Jan. 14-19 House of Representatives Martin Luther King Jr. recess. Jan. 17 Noon, Samantha Power, U.S. Ambassador to the ...