On December 23rd, 2003, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) made a diagnosis of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly known as mad cow disease, after testing the brain of a dairy cow that had slumped on to the slaughterhouse floor in Washington state. It was 13 days until the cow was...
Standing out in a herd
ESPN has approached at least one major carrier about excluding its sports videos from mobile data caps, according to the Wall Street Journal. The report notes the possibility of ESPN paying the carrier as a subsidy so that users can watch videos...
Airbnb's iPhone app.
Nigel Warren can get $105 a night for renting out his room in an East Village apartment on the vacation rentals site Airbnb, which is what he did for three nights during a trip to Colorado in September. When he returned, his landlord informed him that the building had been raided by officials from the Mayor’s Office of Special Enforcement, who alleged that the...
The nonprofit Freedom of the Press Foundation is raising money to pay for a court stenographer to transcribe the events of Bradley Manning’s court martial. Over the next three to four months, the group hopes to raise the $40 - $50,000 it needs in order to pay someone to transcribe each day’s proceedings. In a press release, the organization decried the military court’s overbearing secrecy including its refusal to release an official transcript or copies of written rulings in one of the most widely-reported cases in history. As a result, journalists have had to rely on first-hand accounts from independent reporters like Alexa O'Brien and Kevin Gosztola.
The current situation journalists face in trying to cover the trial is already "Kafkaesque," in the words of documentary filmmaker Lauren Poitras, but Judge Lind cracked down...
"This media operation center is a privilege, not a requirement. Privileges can be taken away.” Judge Denise Lind
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President Obama came into office 2009 with a promise to make his administration the most "open" in history in terms of revealing information to the public about the inner-workings of government, a claim that has been challenged vociferously. But to further advance his open government ambitions,...
The Liberator pistol, first revealed barely a week ago, has caught the eye of federal authorities. Cody Wilson, head of gun-printing group Defense Distributed, says he received a letter from the US State Department, asking him to remove files for...
Senator John McCain today introduced the Television Consumer Freedom Act of 2013, legislation that would encourage cable operators and entertainment conglomerates to unbundle channels and offer programming "a la carte." Rather than mandating his desired end result, McCain...
