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Obama seeks to raise NASA funding
Posted in Science on 3rd Feb, 2015
by Alex Muller
The president calls once again for a big jump in funding for the commercial program that aims to get America launching its own astronauts again.
The US government announces its strongest action against climate change to date
Posted in Business on 3rd Jun, 2014
by Alex Muller
The Obama administration wants to cut carbon pollution by 30 percent within the next 16 years.
Apple Facing Slowing Tablet Growth as U.S. Market Gets Saturated
Posted in Hardware on 29th Jan, 2014
by Alex Muller
Shipments from Apple grew at a slowing rate in the fourth quarter, hurt by an increasingly saturated market in the U.S.
U.S. Computer Scientists Reject Mass Surveillance
Posted in Online on 26th Jan, 2014
by Alex Muller
An open letter from 50 researchers asks the U.S. government to take certain steps to uphold privacy.
NSA tracking hundreds of millions of mobile phones
Posted in Software on 6th Dec, 2013
by Alex Muller
The data is said to help the NSA track individuals, and map who they know, to aid the agency's anti-terror work.