Trump loses appeal, but travel ban fight isn't over yet
Feb 10, 2017 15:44 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Thursdays appellate court opinion, which denied President Donald Trumps appeal concerning his immigrant ban executive order, was unsurprising. It cautiously declined to upset the status quo, temporarily continuing to...
The environment needs billions of dollars more: here's how to raise the money
Feb 07, 2017 04:00 am UTC| Nature Law
Extinction threatens iconic Australian birds and animals. The regent honeyeater, the orange-bellied parrot, and Leadbeaters possum have all entered the list of critically endangered species. It is too late for the more...
Over 120 Companies Are Fighting Back Against Trump's Muslim Ban
Feb 07, 2017 03:54 am UTC| Technology Law Politics
The tech sector heavily relies on immigration in order to continue receiving a constant supply of talented workers and the travel ban imposed by President Donald Trump is putting that in jeopardy. Predictably enough,...
Robot rights: at what point should an intelligent machine be considered a 'person'?
Feb 07, 2017 00:10 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology Law
Science fiction likes to depict robots as autonomous machines, capable of making their own decisions and often expressing their own personalities. Yet we also tend to think of robots as property, and as lacking the kind of...
NHS urged to share data so patients can be deported
Feb 06, 2017 17:59 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
If an NHS doctor divulged personal information about a patient, they could be struck off. But the government pays the NHS to do just this. A patients name, date of birth and address are among the data which are passed on...
What Trump misses about regulations: They produce benefits as well as costs
Feb 06, 2017 07:42 am UTC| Law Politics
President Trump jettisoned more than 30 years of bipartisan regulatory policy on January 30 when he issued an executive order on Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs. The order requires that whenever a new...
Google Loses Privacy Battle, Ordered To Release Email Details Stored In Ireland
Feb 06, 2017 04:20 am UTC| Technology Law
The tech industry recently had cause to celebrate what privacy advocates consider a major victory when the Justice Departments similar request to retrieve information from Microsofts servers in Ireland was denied by a...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects