An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Washington Post: The U.S. Postal Service pursued a project to build and secretly test a blockchain-based mobile phone voting system before the 2020 election (Warning: may be paywalled; alternative source), e…
FAA: No More Astronaut Wings For Future Commercial Space Tourists
“The Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday that it was ending a program that awarded small gold pins called ‘Commercial Space Astronaut Wings’ to certain people who flew to space on private spacecraft,” reports the New York Times. (Alternate U…
The US Patent and Trademark Office should act now to catalyze innovation
Patent trolls should not have the upper hand over American innovators for one day longer than necessary.
It’s time for democracies to protect dissidents from spyware
Only by enacting stronger regulatory and legal protections can democracies ensure their survival, enable free speech to flourish and safeguard their citizens’ well-being.
AWS opens ‘top secret’ western region for US government customers
“Amazon’s cloud arm, AWS, announced a new ‘top secret’ region this week, designed specifically for the U.S. government. It is Amazon’s second such region. The company now boasts “top secret” regions on the east and west coasts of the U.S. “AWS Top Secret-West is accredited to operate workloads at the Top Secret U.S. security classification […]
Biden’s Cyber Leaders Go To Silicon Valley for More Help Fighting Hackers
Senior Biden administration officials met in Silicon Valley on Monday with key technology and cybersecurity companies as part of a push for more help from the private sector in fending off increasingly aggressive hackers working for adversarial regimes…
Partnerships are key to scaling commitments from Biden’s Summit for Democracy
Developing credible local voices, entrepreneurs and innovators who can use emerging technologies to counter the authoritarian threats posed to their countries just may represent the best way to reach our desired outcomes.
Is tech hurting American soft power?
Scott Bade Contributor Share on Twitter Scott Bade is special series editor of the TechCrunch Global Affairs Project and a regular contributor on foreign affairs. He’s a former speechwriter for Mike Bloomberg and co-author of “More Human: Designing a World Where People Come First.” More posts by this contributor China and US tech crackdowns set […]
米国の「国家宇宙会議」が復活、バイデン政権では安全保障が焦点に
米国の政府機関が宇宙関連の課題などを討議する国家宇宙会議が、バイデン政権下で初めて開催された。副大統領のカマラ・ハリスが議長を務めたこの会議では、ロシアの衛星攻撃ミサイル実験による宇宙ごみの発生なども踏まえ、責任をもって宇宙を利用するための規範づくりなどが議題に上がっている。
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VC has a pivotal role to play in the climate fight, but it can’t do everything
The TechCrunch Global Affairs Project examines the increasingly intertwined relationship between the tech sector and global politics.