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Obama Team Names Net Neutrality Advocates for FCC Review

Slashdot reports that the Obama-Biden transition team have named two long-time Net Neutrality supporters to head up it’s FCC Review team. The two chosen were Susan Crawford, a University of Michigan Law School professor, and Kevin Werbach, a former FCC member and Wharton professor. This choice by the Obama-Biden team sends a clear message that [...]

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Selling Mislabelled Sushi is Common – Bait and Switch

Kevin Mahaffey sent in a 1-off but damn interesting find by New York high school students Kate Stoeckle and Louisa Strauss: 25% of sushi you buy is not what you ordered (it’s usually something cheaper). The NYT covered the story in which the girls got 60 different samples of sushi from around New York, then using [...]

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