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14 November 2013

14 November 2013, 20:00

Mission Creep at the TSA and the Case for Privatization

In the 12 years since the creation of the TSA it has become clear that the federal takeover of airport security was a mistake. Cato scholar Chris Edwards writes in an upcoming paper that TSA operations...

14 November 2013, 02:25

Top-selling video games often get best reviews

The independent film "Blue Is the Warmest Color" would be approaching the $1 billion mark worldwide. [...] Fast & Furious 6" grossed a modest $5.5 million opening weekend - overlooked next to the runaway success of the art house film "Before Midnight." It's a bit of a generalization...

13 November 2013, 03:05

Airbnb Open: Show & tell

Airbnb unveiled new versions of its mobile apps and a series of additional features Tuesday morning during an event for hundreds of hosts in the sleek and expansive lobby of the company's new headquarters.

12 November 2013, 11:56

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10 November 2013, 04:13

Privacy firms boom in wake of surveillance scandal

[...] surveys have found the unremitting surveillance scandal could take billion-dollar bites out of businesses whose stock-in-trade is user information - which is to say, much of the online economy today.

08 November 2013, 07:25

Benefits

S.F. Film SocietyThe inaugural Fall Celebration (featuring appearances by directors Ryan Coogler, Spike Jonze, Michael Jordan, Jehane Noujaim, Alexander Payne, June Squibb) honors creativity and innovation in film at this cocktail reception, dinner and post-party.

08 November 2013, 02:37

Twitter can be a success on a smaller scale

When Google filed to go public in 2004, it finally revealed just how clever a trick it had devised by targeting ads to search queries. Android and Chrome, barges and books, cars and glasses, laptops and phones, and much, much more.

07 November 2013, 03:11

Vaccine-a-palooza Part 2

Welcome to Double X Science for November 1, 2013. This week's hosts are Adrienne Roehrich, chemistry editor, and Chris Gunter, science ed editor. This podcast is split into two episodes due to the length of discussion on our topics.

06 November 2013, 22:46

Passion makes teacher life of the science party

John Slyer, a science teacher at Shaker Junior High School, wants his students, young people — and you — to know: During bicycle activities he runs after school, he has his students light an electric bulb by pedaling and measures their heart and respiratory rates and how long they can go.

06 November 2013, 02:05

Mozilla anticookie tool plans crumbling

Mozilla's plans to automatically block certain cookies in its Firefox browser earned praise from privacy advocates and disdain from the ad industry when it was announced earlier this year. The Mountain...

04 November 2013, 07:17

Vaccine-a-palooza Part 1

02 November 2013, 00:43

Feds must take stronger action against salmonella

28 October 2013, 23:49

SYNAPSE shines as first stakes winner for FAIRBANKS

SYNAPSE, one of seven juvenile winners in FAIRBANKS’ second crop, came out with her first victory in the $150,000 My Trusty Cat S. at Delta Downs on Friday, Oct. 25. The dark bay filly bred and owned by Dr.

25 October 2013, 23:43