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UK House of Commons committee finds helicopters most at risk from drones

Paul Hill — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 03:18:01 +0000

A new report from a House of Commons committee in the UK has found that drones pose a disproportionate danger to helicopters than other aircraft. Contributors recommended new legislation in response. Read more...

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg won't go before UK committee, CTO or CPO to appear instead

Paul Hill — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 14:16:01 +0000

Facebook has announced that Mark Zuckerberg will not attend the committee hearing regarding Cambridge Analytica's misuse of user data obtained from Facebook. The company will send its CTO or CPO. Read more...

U.S. Standards Committee Still Undecided on Open XML

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:26:49 +0000

A key U.S. standards committee remains undecided about whether it will support a document standard proposed by Microsoft Corp., even while the company asserted that the committee has already signalled its "yes" in an upcoming... Read more...

Republican National Committee advertises on E-Donkey

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 19 Apr 2004 10:17:48 +0000

ONE OF THE major themes for politicos of all stripes this year is digital rights management. When you and I think about it, we think of annoying things that keep you from exercising your rights... Read more...

AMD CEO appointed to national security committee

Michael Stanclift — Mon, 28 Apr 2003 16:16:00 +0000

AMD today announced that Hector Ruiz, president and chief executive officer of AMD, has been appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as a member of the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC).... Read more...

Bell Labs fires researcher after committee finds 'fraudulent work'

Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:48:56 +0000

A star researcher in electronics at Bell Labs has been fired after an outside review committee found he falsified experimental data. The committee concluded Jan Hendrik Schon made up or altered data at... Read more...