Recreational marijuana is legal in four states and the District of Columbia, but many financial institutions and other big businesses have yet to embrace the new industry.
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Major government study finds link between cell phones and cancer
A multi-year, $ 25 million government study released Thursday found a link between cellphone use and cancer.
The National Toxicology Program (NTP) found that male rats exposed to the same type of...
UK government sets up an international “Olympics of e-sports”
(credit: eGames)
So you want to get into e-sports, but you're worried that the myriad existing popular competitions can't match the grandeur and incorruptible respectability of something like the Olympic games. The UK government has a potential solution, today announcing the eGames as "an international gaming tournament where national pride is the prize."
That pride is apparently the...
As US government asks tech leaders to join war on terror, ISIS threatens Twitter, Facebook CEOs
The US government needs reinforcements from the tech sector to help thwart the Islamic State’s (ISIS) online campaign for hearts and minds.
Representatives of the US Department...
Don’t take away our rights: Small group rallies outside Apple Store against federal government
There was no loud chanting and no ear-piercing megaphone. In fact, the mood was relatively low-key at a rally outside the University Village Apple Store on Tuesday evening.
But for a small group of 15 or so that gathered to show their support for Apple, the...
Ex-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s new project is a ’10-K for government’ — and he’s fired up about it
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has been quietly working on a project that he describes as a “10-K for government,” a reference to the annual filing that public companies make with the Securities & Exchange Commission, chock-full of data for investors to evaluate the...
Microsoft will notify users of suspected government spying
Microsoft said today that it will tell users if their account has been “targeted or compromised by an individual or group working on behalf of a country or nation state.” The announcement comes after Reuters reported how Microsoft did not notify thousands of Hotmail (now Outlook.com) users that their...
Australian government tells citizens to turn off two-factor authentication
The Australian government has repeatedly called for citizens to turn off two-factor authentication (2FA) at its main digital government portal, myGov. The portal's Twitter account has recently been updated several times with cute pictures encouraging holidaymakers to "turn off your myGov security codes" so that "you can spend more time doing the important things."
The portal is the place where Australian citizens can use...
What the government should’ve learned about backdoors from the Clipper Chip
The MYK-78 "Clipper" chip, the 1990's version of the "golden key."
In the face of a Federal Bureau of Investigation proposal requesting backdoors into encrypted communications, a noted encryption expert urged Congress not to adopt the requirements due to technical faults in the plan. The shortcomings in question would allow anyone to easily defeat the measure with little...