Timothy B. Lee
Former senior correspondent
Latest articles by Timothy B. Lee
Uber has a vast amount of data about its customers comings and goings. And there’s little reason for confidence that the company won’t abuse the power that data gives them.
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick says an executive’s comments on investigating journalists “do not represent the company.”
The courts have already made this a record year for declaring software unpatentable.
A new Japanese bullet train can go more than 300 miles per hour. America won’t have a train that fast for decades.
People are so focused on how to shoehorn net neutrality into an 18-year-old legal framework that they’re ignoring important questions about what those rules should look like.
The airplanes carry fake cell phone towers that trick cell phones into connecting to them.
World War II was the biggest conflict in world history, and it profoundly shaped the modern world.
President Obama wants the FCC to adopt strong net neutrality regulations. But the FCC is also considering two alternative approaches.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is seeking a vote on the USA Freedom Act, which would rein in domestic surveillance by the National Security Agency.
For years advocates have been pushing for network neutrality as a way to make sure the web remains a level playing field. But the internet is changing in ways that could make their efforts obsolete.