The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2025 has come and gone, leaving a wave of exciting new technologies. For health-conscious consumers, the show was packed with the latest advancements in wearable…
By Shane Tews | January 15, 2025
The decision last week by Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, to immediately stop using “fact checkers” — groups hired by Meta to determine what information is true and…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | January 15, 2025
Much ink is being spilled over Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s January 7 announcementand a related statement by executive Joel Kaplan about the company replacing its platforms’ prior content-moderation efforts with a more laissez-faire,…
By Clay Calvert | January 14, 2025
Friends, it is great to talk with you again. I hope you had a restful break. In the two weeks since we last chatted, I spent some time organizing my…
By Will Rinehart | January 13, 2025
Under a standard of recency that allowed me to review a 40-year-old book in 2023, I want to celebrate the very recent publication, over a year ago, of two articles…
By Jim Harper | January 13, 2025
The California Air Resources Board last November requested from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency a waiver under section 209(e) of the Clean Air Act for implementation of its “In-Use Locomotive Regulation,” an…
By Benjamin Zycher | January 13, 2025
The “clean energy transition” — the wholesale replacement of conventional (for the most part fossil) energy with such unconventional technologies as wind and solar power — has been the raison d’être for…
By Benjamin Zycher | January 12, 2025
2025 is already shaping up to be a year of change for many reasons related to the economics and technology of energy. Between the uncertainty arising from a political change…
By L. Lynne Kiesling | January 10, 2025
My fellow tech policy enthusiasts, our long national nightmare is over. Last week, the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit brought an end to the decade-long fight over net neutrality…
By Daniel Lyons | January 9, 2025
Today, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, announced that it would immediately stop using “fact checkers” to police the content on its platforms, which also include Instagram and Threads. Meta explained:…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | January 9, 2025
More than 16 months after I wrote about the defamation-by-chatbot case Walters v. OpenAI, the groundbreaking battle pitting radio show host Mark Walters against the company behind ChatGPT is reaching a pivotal point. Following Georgia…
By Clay Calvert | January 8, 2025
The Office of the Solicitor General — part of the Department of Justice —was created by the Statutory Authorization Act of June 22, 1870. The Act states that there shall be an…
By Benjamin Zycher | January 8, 2025
The Lord works in mysterious ways, an eternal truth illustrated by the latest electric power blackout afflicting Puerto Rico on New Year’s Eve. Merely the latest manifestation of the reality…
By Benjamin Zycher | January 6, 2025
The European Commission’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) aims to foster competition in digital markets through mandated interoperability between platforms and devices. A current consultation specifically addresses Apple iOS’s integration with…
By Shane Tews | January 6, 2025
The nation can do better at forecasting AI-driven job and skill changes, including with a data-focused nonprofit that examines the technology’s impact. Markets are the killer app for efficiently organizing…
By Brent Orrell | January 3, 2025