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Senator Probes Samsung, LG Over Smart TV Privacy
2015-02-12 18:02:51| PC Magazine HDTVs Product Guide
Sen. Al Franken sent letters to Samsung and LG, inquiring about their use of voice-recognition tech in smart TVs.
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Automakers don't protect you enough from car hackers, senator says
2015-02-09 20:49:23| Wireless - Topix.net
Car makers are not doing enough to protect your safety and privacy from hackers, according to a new report from Senator Ed Markey. We don't yet live in a world where hackers can crash your car.
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Hawaii state senator concerned with Hawaiian Electric's new rooftop solar plan
2015-01-23 06:17:22| Energy - Topix.net
State Sen. Mike Gabbard, chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Environment, is concerned with Hawaiian Electric's new rooftop solar plan A Hawaii state senator is concerned about Hawaiian Electric Co.' s plans to get rid of the net energy metering program, which credits rooftop solar customers at the full retail value of electricity.
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Senator clears humans of climate change using acclaimed scientific journal
2015-01-22 21:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Desk: To understand the craziness that just went down on the floor of the U.S. Senate, you first have to understand the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change. It`s pretty simple, actually: The planet is getting warmer, largely because humans are releasing heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide. Or, as the world`s leading climate scientists put it in a recent report from the U.N.`s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, "Warming of the climate system is unequivocal," and it`s "extremely...
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Jim Inhofe is a small-plane-flying, global-warming-denying senator
2015-01-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: At the end of last year, with most of his colleagues stuck in Washington for an important Senate session on a Saturday, Sen. James M. Inhofe was in Tulsa getting spurs fastened onto a pair of boots. Theyre ostrich, said Inhofe (R-Okla.), the countrys most prominent climate-change denier, referring to his footwear. Probably some endangered species; I have a reputation to maintain. Inhofe could have been wearing Birkenstocks and it wouldnt have put a dent in his notoriety. The senator...
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