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#68: Uber Settles a Lawsuit
Last week, Uber settled a class-action lawsuit alleging that the company misclassified its drivers as independent contractors rather than employees. While the settlement carries no...
#70: Auctioning the Airwaves
As the demand for mobile data explodes, so does the need for spectrum holders to free up the airwaves for wireless carriers. While free, over-the-air...
#67: Killing the Cable Box
The FCC wants to “unlock” the cable box. But shouldn’t the agency be helping to kill the box? The FCC recently proposed rules that would force cable,...
#66: Government Transparency
These days, it costs almost nothing to publish information online. So why isn’t more government information available to the public? Taxpayers spend $100 million a...
#65: Student Debt and Technology
Our national student debt is sittin’ pretty at $1.3 trillion, and the number is rising by $3,000 every second. Can technology help solve the problem...
#64: Encryption is a Global Issue
When the encryption debate is so often framed as “Apple v. FBI,” it’s easy to forget that digital security is a global issue. Nonetheless, how the United...