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Eric Schmidt: Regulate civilian drones but not Google Glass
2013-04-16 02:24:30| CNET News.com
Google Glass is a small object often in motion with a camera and GPS, typically in the air. It might also fall in a similar category to what could be called personal drones. [Read more]
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Should the federal government regulate fracking?
2013-04-14 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wall Street Journal: Fracking supporters say it could set America on the road to energy independence and drastically change our economic prospects while helping address climate change. Fracking--short for hydraulic fracturing--involves injecting fluids into the ground to access hard-to-reach reserves of oil and natural gas, including shale gas, which the U.S. has in vast abundance but hasn't been able to reach easily up to now. Many advocates argue that the federal government should step in and regulate the practice...
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GapSense helps regulate wireless traffic
2013-04-13 12:34:47| Wireless - Topix.net
The current popularity of wireless devices - from WiFi laptops to Bluetooth headsets to ZigBee sensor nodes - is increasingly clogging our airwaves, resulting in dropped calls, wasted bandwidth and botched connections.
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Farmer Regulate Thyself: Agribusiness Takes Food Safety into Its Own Hands
2013-04-10 12:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: Healthy food kills--or at least, it can. In 2010, foodborne illness sickened nearly 20,000 Americans. Of those infected, more than 4,000 had to be hospitalized; 68 died. The main culprits were bacteria--Salmonella and Escherichia coli, to be precise--that had taken cover in products widely considered healthy. Although E. coli infection rates have declined somewhat since food production companies began meeting new federal food safety regulations in 2006, cases of salmonella infection have remained...