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Kickstarting Your Career: Crowdfunding For Scientific Research

Kevin Hascup | RateMyPI.com | October 7, 2012

Popularized by such sites as Kickstarter, crowdfunding has become a main source of financial support for entrepreneurs with ideas ranging from clothing lines to social media.  Unfortunately, Kickstarter prohibits projects for health and medicine, making the site useless for academic researchers.  To fill this gap, Petridish, iAMscientist and MedStartr have come online in the past 6 months...
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Megaupload And The Government's Attack On Cloud Computing

Cindy Cohn and Julie Samuels | Electronic Frontier Foundation | October 31, 2012

Yesterday, EFF, on behalf of its client Kyle Goodwin, filed a brief proposing a process for the Court in the Megaupload case to hold the government accountable for the actions it took (and failed to take) when it shut down Megaupload's service and denied third parties like Mr. Goodwin access to their property. [...] Read More »

Megupload User To Court: Hold Government Accountable

Julie Samuels | Electronif Frontier Foundation | October 30, 2012

It’s been almost a year since Kyle Goodwin lost access to the lawful property that he stored on Megaupload. EFF, on his behalf, has asked the Court to order his data returned, and, more recently, has also asked the Court to unseal the confidential search warrants surrounding the third-party data at issue.  And it appears Mr. Goodwin is making some headway... Read More »

White House Petition On Cellphone Unlocking Receives Over 100,000 Signatures

Derek Khanna | Forbes | February 25, 2013

At 7:37 AM EST on February 21, 2013, a White House petition on cellphone unlocking went over the 100,000 signature threshold on the White House’s “We the People” website.  This was the threshold for a White House response.  Now they will will wait to hear from the White House. How did we get here and what is cellphone unlocking? Read More »