Business in America evolved around the idea that employees should work eight hours a day, five days a week, for a forty-hour work week.  Since 1940, when Congress limited the workweek to forty hours in the Fair Labor Standards Act,

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re probably aware that Nintendo just released Pokemon Go for Android and iOS smart phones. Pokemon Go is an augmented reality game that is becoming a sensation. The market value of Nintendo went

What if the phone company charged you for your phone calls based on who you were or what you were talking about?  It sounds absurd in the telephone context, but that type of practice is at the heart of the

In May, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter addressed reporters at a news conference in California, where he talked about technology and cyber defense.Carter spoke about the United States’ use of electronic attack methods to disrupt the activities of ISIS. But,

On April 21st, 2016, fans around the world were shocked to hear of the passing of Prince.  A songwriter, actor, music producer, and master of multiple musical instruments, Prince influenced popular culture for decades. Prince was also a strong advocate

In 2015, the FBI unsuccessfully tried to persuade Congress to regulate encryption. To combat the so-called problem of criminal investigations “going dark,” some law enforcement professionals want tech companies to be able to bypass their own encryption.  The FBI and

ISIS uses encrypted communication methods to reach sympathizers over the Internet.  Drugs are sold in decentralized markets in the hidden corners of the Web.  People who want to exploit children have anonymous forums where posts are very difficult to trace. 

“In America, the ordinary meets the extraordinary every day,” Bradley Cooper’s character remarks to Jennifer Lawrence’s title character in an acclaimed film that recently earned Jennifer Lawrence an Oscar nomination.  The movie, Joy, loosely based on a true story, chronicles

Patent reform continues to be on the minds of lawmakers on Capitol Hill as both the House and the Senate’s Judiciary Committees approved bills that are supposed to stop certain abuses in patent litigation and at the Patent Trial and

The National Security Agency’s surveillance activities are once again the subject of Congressional scrutiny.  In the past few days, the Senate voted to reject a bill that would have ended metadata collection under Section 215 of the Patriot Act.  Immediately