Timothy B. Lee
Former senior correspondent
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The disappearing-message startup raised $486 million from 23 investors.
In 1998, Congress extended copyright terms by 20 years, stopping older works from falling into the public domain until 2019.
Surge prices are good for passengers, good for drivers, and no one is forced to pay them.
A landmark Supreme Court ruling could mark the beginning of the end for patenting software.
The internet’s underworld allows people to buy drugs and download child pornography.
Many Lyft customers love Lyft and hate Uber’s surge pricing. And many Lyft drivers don’t make much more than minimum wage.
So far in 2014, Bitcoin has lost more value than the Russian ruble.
The FBI’s evidence for a North Korean connection is weak, but the US government might be holding back its strongest material.
OK Go filmed a video Japan using a drone-mounted camera. Regulations could have made it difficult to make the same video here in the United States.
Seattle is spending billions to replace its urban freeway with a freeway tunnel. Scrapping the freeway altogether would have been a better option.