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  • The state policy “nuclear renaissance” image

    The state policy “nuclear renaissance”

    A state policy “nuclear renaissance” is underway. In 2007, states considered a total of 27 bills pertaining in some way to nuclear energy. By 2011, this number leaped to 204.

  • Free Speech Wins: A Massachusetts Federal District Court Dismisses Defamation Lawsuit Against TechDirt image

    Free Speech Wins: A Massachusetts Federal District Court Dismisses Defamation Lawsuit Against TechDirt

    Defamation law may no longer be used to silence unliked speech. At least, that is what a federal court in Massachusetts ruled last week. Shiva Ayyadurai sued…

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    Innovative Policing: Saves Time and Money

    Police forces often face budget challenges and time crunches – little money and more work than time allows. In this environment, technological innovations can come slowly, expensive, difficult to deploy…

  • Arkansas Fumbles the Ball With Fantasy Sports Tax image

    Arkansas Fumbles the Ball With Fantasy Sports Tax

    Rotisserie league and general fantasy sports betting contests have existed for decades. With the internet, now millions can compete in daily and season-long fantasy sports contests, often with entry fees…

  • ALEC Comment Supporting FCC Efforts to Restore Internet Freedom image

    ALEC Comment Supporting FCC Efforts to Restore Internet Freedom

    Last week, the American Legislative Exchange Council went on record, filing comments with the Federal Communications Commission, strongly supporting a return to true internet freedom by supporting the roll back…

  • The Net Neutrality Day of Action Was A Flop image

    The Net Neutrality Day of Action Was A Flop

    Companies large and small across the United States participated in yesterday’s day of action to protest the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) proposed reversal of Chairman Wheeler’s Title II reclassification of…

  • Innovation Heats Up! And You Can Be Part of It! image

    Innovation Heats Up! And You Can Be Part of It!

    Of the many promises of innovation, no promise likely rises higher than the opportunity to live longer, healthier and more active lives. While advances in entertainment and consumer electronics tend…

  • Energy Innovation: A Key to All of the Above Jobs image

    Energy Innovation: A Key to All of the Above Jobs

    Conservative clean energy innovation that focuses on clean coal, nuclear, and hydro power is, “an economic opportunity, a huge job creator,” says conservative businessman Jay Faison.

  • Solar Panels, from Sea to Shining Sea? image

    Solar Panels, from Sea to Shining Sea?

    Whether or not a grand southern border wall solar installation can pay for itself through electricity sales is difficult to predict in the absence of clear, specific proposals and construction plans.

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    Accessing Pirated Content Is Not Worth the Risk

    A report published by Digital Citizens Alliance has found that websites dedicated to distributing illicit movies, television shows and other pirated content are also more likely to infect their…

  • FCC Chairman Pai Signals a New Direction for the Agency image

    FCC Chairman Pai Signals a New Direction for the Agency

    Federal Communications Commissioner Chairman Ajit Pai recently toured the Midwest, unveiling his priorities as Chair. The speeches should encourage states, as he signaled the FCC’s new regulatory approach. Unlike…

  • Right to Repair Policies are Government Mandates and will Jeopardize Consumer Privacy image

    Right to Repair Policies are Government Mandates and will Jeopardize Consumer Privacy

    Whether consumers should have the right to repair electronic devices, cars, and other products with a software component is a tough debate. On the one hand, those who support right…

  • Why the Federal GSA Has No Business Competing with the Private Sector image

    Why the Federal GSA Has No Business Competing with the Private Sector

    Over the last couple decades, the steady stream of new information technologies and more general innovations has continued to amaze and delight. With these creations and opportunities appearing broadly in…

  • Out With the Old, in With the New image

    Out With the Old, in With the New

    Sometimes we can overlook what is right in front of us.  Focusing on innovation and casting about for a new topic to illuminate every couple of weeks often leads one…

  • Why Autonomous Vehicle Technology is Likely to Lead to Job Growth image

    Why Autonomous Vehicle Technology is Likely to Lead to Job Growth

    Autonomous cars are the way of the future. The policies states craft now will determine whether the technology is adopted rapidly, or slowly, in that state. In New York, opposition…

  • Ajit Pai named new FCC Chair image

    Ajit Pai named new FCC Chair

    President Donald Trump elevated Federal Communications Commissioner Ajit Pai to Chairman of the Commission. This news should hearten free market and limited government advocates and friends, as his elevation…

  • Policy for the Environment, Not Government image

    Policy for the Environment, Not Government

    Given a choice, the environmental left will choose government over solving what it claims are urgent environmental challenges. The case of Washington state’s recent, failed I-732 ballot measure demonstrates this…

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    This Wireless Future

    Not long ago, to be connected online a person had to be anchored to a desk with a personal computer.

  • Technology, Innovation and Calculating Risk image

    Technology, Innovation and Calculating Risk

    Facebook has blocked a British insurance company from using its social media website to analyze whether a new driver or car owner is an acceptable insurance risk. The company,…

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    Everything is Coming Up Battery Storage

    Energy innovation has an equivalent of singularity: the day when affordable, scalable, reliable battery storage technology collides with intermittent generation sources like wind and solar to stabilize the availability of…