“There is a tremendous thirst from people all over the world to see and understand data ... Traditional analytics technologies are universally complicated and development-heavy. They’re slow-moving and inflexible.”

Joel Kotkin writes: "A new, and potentially dominant, ruling class is rising. Today’s tech moguls don’t employ many Americans, they don’t pay very much in taxes or tend to share much of their wealth, and they live in a separate world that few of us could ever hope to enter. But while spending millions bending the political process to pad their bottom lines, they’ve remained far more popular than past plutocrats, with 72 percent of Americans expressing positive feelings for the industry, compared to 30 percent for banking and 20 percent for oil and gas." 

The Obama administration is expected to back an FBI plan that would change the law to make it easier to wiretap online communication. Large companies that "do not comply with wiretap orders" would face fines of at least $25,000 a day.

Writes Farhad Manjoo: " Though it’s a clever stunt, the printable gun does nothing to weaken the case for gun control—and, in the long run, it might well strengthen it. That’s because, for the foreseeable future, the printed gun can’t compete with manufactured weapons. It’s more expensive, less durable, and a worse shot than any gun you can buy from a store. At best, then, it’s a distraction from the mainstream politics of gun control."

The company has circulated some designs of a possible new treatment, and the raspberries are loud.

Do foreign computer workers cut off opportunities for U.S. graduates? Or is the real issue the difference between a top computer grad and one with middling skills?

"In the past, the tech industry created middle-class jobs and lifted the overall economy of Silicon Valley. But as tech companies have shifted manufacturing and midlevel jobs overseas over the years, highly paid workers have increasingly clustered here. Per-capita incomes have been rising even as median incomes have decreased for five years in a row,"

Here it is, 20 years later. Pretty basic, but pretty thrilling to see a revolution being born.

Did computer programs read a false Tweet about the White House being bombed and start selling off stock? Did a pause by human traders as they read the phony message cause the computers to think they should sell? 

(Hash)music, Twitter's new music app, launched today. The app allows Twitter users to find and tweet about songs. Users can also follow what other users or musicians are listening to.