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The Moderate Voice: The President Explains His ‘Policy Shift’ on Armed Drones
In a major speech at the National Defense University in Washington, President Obama explained and defended his administration’s use of armed drones in the war on terror, outlined the legal basis behind their use and announced steps and standards for sel...
In Politics | Dateline: 2013-05-23 2:45pm -07:00T (2349 words)
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Om Malik: Mailbox launches iPad app and says Android is in the works
If you were an avid user of the popular email app Mailbox and were worried by the company’s acquisition by Dropbox, never fear. Mailbox isn’t slowing down or turning away from email, as evidenced by Thursday’s launch of the new Mailbox for iPad app ...
In Technology | Dateline: 2013-05-23 6:16am -07:00T (465 words)
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TechCrunch: JustFab Goes Up A Size In Europe, Acquires Fab Shoes To Take Its Fashion Subscription Service To France And Spain
JustFab, the subscription-based fashion commerce site, is putting the $109 million that it has raised so far to use: today it is announcing the acquisition of The Fab Shoes, a European e-commerce shoe club in France and Spain, to build out its global ope...
In Technology | Dateline: 2013-05-23 8:46am -07:00T (656 words)
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Ars Technica: Sprint to give US government say on board, remove Chinese hardware
In a move to get approval of its acquisition of Sprint Nextel Corp., executives of Japanese telecom company SoftBank have agreed to give the US government veto power over the choice for Sprint's director responsible for oversight of national security iss...
In Technology | Dateline: 2013-05-23 8:46am -07:00T (239 words)
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Tuned In: Dead Tree Alert: The Westeros Wing; or, Why Game of Thrones is the Best Show About Politics
There’s no new Game of Thrones this Sunday; HBO is running the Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra (and you can find Richard Corliss’ review of the movie from Cannes here). In the meantime, you can read my column in the print TIME magazine t...
In Entertainment | Dateline: 2013-05-24 6:31am -07:00T (340 words)
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Slashdot: AT&T Quietly Adds Charges To All Contract Cell Plans
guttentag writes "The Wall Street Journal is reporting that AT&T Mobility, the second-largest wireless carrier in the U.S., has added a new monthly administrative fee of 61 cents to the bills of all of its contract wireless lines as of May 1, a move that ...
In Technology | Dateline: 2013-05-24 6:31am -07:00T (230 words)
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Addiction Recovery Basics: What I Learned at an Alcoholic Rehabilitation Center
There are two kinds of things that you learn from being in an alcoholic rehabilitation center. One, you learn actual stuff. People tell you things about recovery and you listen to them. Then you try to go apply those things that you learned. But two, you ...
In Health & Fitness | Dateline: 2013-05-24 6:35am -07:00T (201 words)
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Slashdot: Ask Slashdot: When Is the User Experience Too Good?
gadzook33 writes "I had an interesting experience at work recently. A colleague suggested during a meeting that we were building something that would make it far too easy for the customer to perform a certain task; a task that my colleague felt was delete...
In Technology | Dateline: 2013-05-24 10:16am -07:00T (202 words)
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Slashdot: WHO: Intellectual Property Claims Hindering Research On Deadly Novel Coronavirus
New submitter kwyjibo87 writes "The World Health Organization (WHO) publicly expressed dismay yesterday concerning news that intellectual property claims were hindering research on a deadly new emerging virus. Novel coronavirus (nCoV), a member of the sam...
In Technology | Dateline: 2013-05-24 2:01pm -07:00T (212 words)
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Washingtonpost.com Celebritology: On ‘Face the Nation,’ Ben Affleck discusses Senate run; the ‘Jersey Shore’ is finally over
The final morning mix of entertainment headlines... — Ben Affleck, who was in Washington this week to testify before the House Armed Services Committee, taped an interview that will air this Sunday on CBS News’s “Face the Nation.” In that inter...
In Entertainment | Dateline: 2013-05-23 2:30am -07:00T (170 words)
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Washingtonpost.com Celebritology: This is the Celebritology goodbye
This is it. The end of Celebritology. The announcement has already been made. The final chat has been held. And the list of fond reminscences has been published. There’s nothing left but goodbye now. First, some procedural matters. As noted in the initi...
In Entertainment | Dateline: 2013-05-23 7:15am -07:00T (90 words)
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Top Tech News: Who's Best To Manage 'Voice of the Customer' Concerns?
Over the next three years, global organizations will make understanding and interacting with the customer their top priority. So says a recent study conducted by the Intelligence Unit of The Economist newsmagazine.
But the study -- called "Voice of the...
In Technology | Dateline: 2013-05-23 9:46am -07:00T (300 words)
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MacRumors: New Colors Rumored for iPhone 5S and Lower-Cost iPhone, Dual LED Flash for iPhone 5S?
Macotakara has released a report with new details on a number of upcoming products, including the rumored low cost iPhone, the iPhone 5S, and the iPad 5. Citing information from several different sources, the site suggests that the low cost iPhone may shi...
In Technology | Dateline: 2013-05-23 1:31pm -07:00T (572 words)
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Washingtonpost.com Celebritology: This is the Celebritology goodbye
This is it. The end of Celebritology. The announcement has already been made. The final chat has been held. And the list of fond reminscences has been published. There’s nothing left but goodbye now. First, some procedural matters. As noted in the initi...
In Entertainment | Dateline: 2013-05-23 5:00pm -07:00T (90 words)
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PrairiePundit: Letters tie Lerner to targeting of Tea Party
Andrew Stiles:
A series of letters suggests that senior IRS official Lois Lerner was directly involved in the agency’s targeting of conservative groups as recently as April 2012, more than nine months after she first learned of the activity.Lerner, t...
In Politics | Dateline: 2013-05-23 9:04pm -07:00T (201 words)
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