On Tuesday, Massachusetts Congresswoman Katherine Clark sent a letter to her fellow Congress members asking them to urge the Appropriations Committee to address various forms of online harassment. Her letter emphasized harassment women face online, was accompanied by an op-ed, and was in response to some of the more aggressive language used against various female activists…
Actor Robert Downey Jr delivered a special bionic arm to a little boy without one. Albert Marero, founder of Limbitless, creates special 3d printed bionic arms as part of the Collective Project. The arms are licensed under a creative commons non-commercial license, meaning anyone can create one with the technology. Download the blueprints and instruction…
Since the advent of online streaming, Americans are moving away from TV faster than ever, according to new research by Nielsen. As Claire Atkinson aptly wrote in her piece published the New York Post, “Netflix, Amazon and Hulu Plus are no longer just nibbling away at the fringes of the pay-TV business — they’re eating its lunch.” The…
By Peter Fricke Netflix has been among the leading advocates of net neutrality, but its CFO is now downplaying that support in the wake of the FCC’s decision to regulate the internet as a public utility. The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that Netflix CFO David Wells admitted last week that the company “[has] lobbyist’s…
The U.S. military has unveiled plans to create a drone that resembles a shark. The underwater drone nicknamed “GhostSwimmer” comes out of the military’s Silent NEMO project. Yes, it’s named after the Disney film Finding Nemo. Although the underwater drone looks like a shark, the bionic fish is actually styled using the movement patterns of…
By Jonah Bennett The Defense Department has been busy testing what may be one of the greatest innovations for snipers to enter the market: .50-caliber bullets capable of changing direction after being fired, Stars and Stripes reports.The program, developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is called Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordinance (EXACT) and has now…
Kirsten Drysdale of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation is reporting on the story of how Estonia has made it possible for anyone to become a resident of their country by simply applying for a card and acquiring a digital identity. Drysdale examines how the post-Soviet satellite state offering a digital identity to foreigners could be the beginning…
This Is The Net Neutrality Discussion You Were Looking For: Readers of the Libertarian Republic have been writing to us requesting to have a discussion about net neutrality. Today’s episode of the Freedom Report podcast examines the threat to the free market posed by further regulation, as well as examines possible solutions to the mess…
Novartis and Google signed a deal today to develop a new smart contact lens that would place hi-tech sensors on contact lenses. The lenses would analyze a person’s tears in order to provide measurements on blood glucose levels. These are then sent wirelessly to a mobile device in order to provide accurate information to those…
Editor of The Libertarian Republic Austin Petersen was invited by Michelle Fields to debate the question of whether NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden‘s actions made him a traitor, or a patriot. In a short discussion, Petersen discusses the difference between a just law and an unjust law, as well as analyzes the constitutional issues surrounding the…