Progress Fueled by the NY-SUN Initiative YONKERS, NY – August 5, 2014 — The Environment New York Research & Policy Center today released a new report: “Lighting the Way” showing strong solar growth across the nation including a 30%increase in New York in 2013. The report emphasizes that it is not availability of sunlight that makes states solar leaders, but …
EarthTalk®: The Driverless Automobile By DOUG MOSS
Dear EarthTalk: What are the environmental implications of the so-called “driverless car” that Google and others are working on right now? – April Jackman, Barre, MA Just a decade ago most of us wouldn’t have dreamed we’d live to see driverless cars whisking people around, but things are changing fast and analysts now think they will be common by …
CURRENT COMMENTARY: Net Neutrality Does Not Equal Net Utility By LARRY M. ELKIN
Photo by and courtesy of John Pasden The most strident proponents of “net neutrality” want the Federal Communications Commission to declare broadband a utility, so the government can ensure that everyone gets equal access to the best Internet service that today’s providers can offer. Had they gotten this wish back in 1999, there is a good chance we would all …
CURRENT COMMENTARY: Is It The National Surveillance Agency? By LARRY M. ELKIN
By now, even casual Internet users may have received a message from at least one website encouraging them to change their passwords in the wake of the Heartbleed encryption flaw. As troubling as the news of a major Internet security hole was, however, more troubling still was the allegation that the U.S. government’s security apparatus knew about the breach and …
TED Talk: Are We Designed to Be Sexual Omnivores? By CHRISTOPHER RYAN
An idea permeates our modern view of relationships: that men and women have always paired off in sexually exclusive relationships. But before the dawn of agriculture, humans may actually have been quite promiscuous. Author Christopher Ryan walks us through the controversial evidence that human beings are sexual omnivores by nature, in hopes that a more nuanced understanding may put an …
TED TALKS: What Happens When the Media’s Priority is Profit? By DAVID PUTNAM
In this thoughtful talk, David Puttnam asks a big question about the media: Does it have a moral imperative to create informed citizens, or is it free to pursue profit by any means, just like any other business? His solution for balancing profit and responsibility is bold … and you might not agree. (Filmed at TEDxHousesofParliament.) After a much-awarded career …
Botnet Bust: SpyEye Malware Mastermind Pleads Guilty
ATLANTA, GA — January 28, 2014 – Today, Russian national Aleksandr Andreevich Panin pled guilty in an Atlanta federal courtroom to a conspiracy charge associated with his role as the primary developer and distributor of malware—called SpyEye—created specifically to facilitate online theft from financial institutions, many of them in the U.S.
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