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1/29/16
TechNews for the week: January 29; January 27; January 25;

War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
ISIS Fighters Just Got a Huge Pay Cut; Electricity supply in Iraq's Kurdistan region hit by blast; Afghanistan confronts a new threat from IS;
Syria opposition meets in Riyadh, casts doubt on talks; Iranian president: Boosting Middle East economy is way to beat extremism;
The caliphate eyes the Holy Land; Why is Israel so cautious on the Islamic State; GCHQ and the NSA spied on Israeli drone video feeds;
Israel, Mired in Ideological Battles, Fights on Cultural Fronts; UN chief calls on Israel to freeze settlement-building;
Congress is sneakily trying to rewrite American policy on Israeli settlements;
Mapping Mediterranean migration;
How a Loophole in US Law Helps Drug Cartels Sneak Guns Into Mexico;
Supreme Court Ruling on Obama Immigration Order Won't Make Anyone Happy;
North Carolina's strict voter-ID law goes to trial Monday; North Carolina GOP Accused Of Intentionally Suppressing Black Votes To Preserve Their Majority;
Planned Parenthood cleared by Texas jury over videos, activists indicted;
Oregon Standoff: 1 Dead, 1 Wounded As Feds Arrest Ammon Bundy and Others;
After ugly first year, Illinois' governor says stay tuned;
This time, the conservative crackup is real; The two parties can't agree on the problems, let alone the solutions;
Poll: Republicans see Trump as most electable among GOP hopefuls; Lindsey Graham just changed the game for presidential hopefuls;
How Fox News failed Republican voters (and everyone else) at the debate; AP FACT CHECK: GOP claims on carpet bombs, Kurds and economy; WP Fact-checking;
The moment when Ted Cruz lost the debate;
Fox News: Public school forced my child to convert to Islam;

Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Cyber Threats Not Catastrophic, But Security Mechanisms Require Improvement; Essay: Integrity and Availability Threats;
Data-Driven Policing; FBI Operated Child Porn Site to Catch Users; Hacking the Police;
EU Chamber of Commerce Concerned About Chinese Telecom Law;
Shodan Lets You Browse Insecure Webcams;
Math and science
How 'artificial swarm intelligence' uses people to make better predictions than experts; Data Could Help Scholars Persuade, if Only They Were Willing to Use It;
Clay tablets reveal Babylonians discovered astronomical geometry 1,400 years before Europeans;
Wearable Sweat Sensor To Track Body's Biochemical Data; The age when you gain the most weight;
AI pioneer Marvin Minsky dies aged 88;
Web and computing issues
FTC Upgrades Website to Help Victims of Identity Theft; Approves Controversial Broadband Deployment Report;
SC Politics
14 Students at the Citadel Face Punishment for Klan-Like Costumes;
Time to Rebrand this State Attraction;

Finance and Economics
Federal Reserve leaves interest rates unchanged; U.S. economy grew by 0.7 percent in fourth quarter;
Japan stuns markets with surprise move to negative interest rates;
Saudis Impose Capital Controls as Oil Slides; Sandia's Offshore Wind Energy Program Develops "Gigantic" Turbine Blades;
Oil Bust Hurting Small US Refineries; Solar Panel Costs Forecast To Fall 10 Percent A Year Globally;
Supreme Court Backs Regulators In Electricity Case; Ex-prosecutor to spearhead investigation into Flint water;
EU Avoids Regulations, Will Monitor Virtual Currencies;
Google Files for Patent on 'Aerial Delivery Device'; Johnson Controls to buy Ireland-based Tyco for $16.5 billion;
FTC, ED Move Against For-Profit DeVry University;
Other news
New Yorker: On the Road with Trump; Odds Are on the GOP to Win the White House, Unless ?; The Republican Party May Be Failing;
How heavily armed is your state?
3 High-Yielding Dividend Stocks with Low Betas;

Education:
Moody's Ratings Reports Provide Clues On The Future Of Higher Education; State Spending on Higher Education Continues Slow Improvement;
Amenities, Flagging State Support Contribute To Rising College Costs; Does Technology Ever Reduce the Costs of Teaching?
U.S. Colleges Raise $40 Billion; Stanford Tops List at $1.6 Billion ; College Endowments Report Lowest Return Rate in 3 Years;
Teaching Young Engineers to Find Problems, Not Just Solve Them; Iowa Teachers Embracing Creative Problem Solving In Math Education;
Computer Science, Meet Humanities: in New Majors, Opposites Attract;
Students' Demands Go Beyond Black and White; After Protests, U. Missouri Raises Minimum Graduate Stipends;
Which States Allow Guns on Campuses;
Penn State's Abuse Scandal Still Sharply Divides Its Board; Florida State to Pay $950,000 to Settle Title IX Suit by Quarterback's Accuser;
Colleges Raised $1.2 Billion in Donations for Sports in 2015; As Sports Programs Get Richer, Few Give Much for Academics;
Nearly One-Quarter of College Athletes Report Signs of Depression ;

1/22/16
TechNews for the week: January 22; January 20;

War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Islamic State's double standards sow growing disillusion; Russian airstrikes in Syria put peace talks in doubt; Putin asked Bashar al-Assad to step down, denies report;
U.N. Envoy Signals That Riyadh Is Obstructing Syria Peace Talks; Iraqi Kurds razing Arabs' homes in what could be 'war crimes';
U.S. announces new sanctions against Iranian entities involved in ballistic missiles program;
Saudi Arabia is in a state of panic; Iran: War with Saudi Arabia is not possible;
US ambassador to Israel slams Israel's settlements policy; EU criticizes Israel, builds on anti-settlement policy;
Businesses in Israeli settlements 'contribute to rights abuses'; Israel incensed by U.S. ambassador's remarks about West Bank; Faced with EU and U.S. criticism, Israeli insults fly;
Israel moving to seize West Bank farmland; Israel says will seize West Bank land; demolishes EU structures; Dozens of Jewish settlers take over buildings in West Bank;
Netanyahu: U.S., Israel close on military aid package;
Ruling party concedes defeat in Taiwan; Tsai Ing-wen to become first female president;
Central America's Gangs Are All Grown Up; Putin implicated in fatal poisoning of former KGB spy;
25 years after Desert Storm, America still hasn't learned why it's so difficult to win wars overseas;
Supreme Court to review Obama program to protect millions from deportation; A half million people overstayed their welcome in the U.S. last year;
After 149 years, Kansas lawmakers still grappling with 14th Amendment; Judge: Kansas official had no authority to encumber voting;
Kansas' uncertain state finances weighs on some lawmakers; Mississippi Republicans Face Hard Tax Cut Choices;
Illinois governor backs 'Democratic' state pension-cost plan; A Michigan Congressman Called Federal Disaster Aid for Flint Unconstitutional;
The tea party's disfunctional relationship with the Constitution;
Senate Republicans beat back attempt to hold vote on Trump's Muslim ban proposal; Audio refutes Trump's claim on China tariff; Trump retweets support from neo-Nazi account;
Trump's bad bet: How too much debt drove his biggest casino aground; Trump Threatens to Sue Washington Post over bankruptcy story;
Here are 76 of Donald Trump's many campaign promises; Sarah Palin blames son's arrest on PTSD, Obama;
A guide to what Ted Cruz wants to abolish, bar or change;
Cruz's story of White House rejection leaves out job offer; Ted Cruz flubs his family's health insurance, blames (naturally) Obamacare;

Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Should We Allow Bulk Searching of Cloud Archives? Senate Delays Vote on European Privacy Rights; California Bill Would Make Unbreakable Encryption Illegal;
New zero-day flaw hits millions of Linux servers, also affects most Android devices; Reverse-Engineering a Zero-Day Exploit from the Hacking Team Data Dump;
El Chapo's Opsec; The TSA Set a Record for Loaded Weapons Caught Last Year;
Match Fixing in Tennis;
Math and science
A massive, unknown planet may be hiding in our solar system;
A Neuroscientist Says There's a Powerful Benefit to Exercise That Is Rarely Discussed;
A Harvard psychologist says people judge you based on 2 criteria when they first meet you;
Yahoo Releases Massive Amount of Data to University Researchers;
Perovskite Solar Cell May Be The Future Of Solar Energy;
Algorithm Could Reduce Time Between Boarding And Takeoff;
Web and computing issues
Brave browser promises faster Web by banishing intrusive ads; 51% Oppose Targeted Ads in Free Social Media;
10 Android Apps for the Modern Business Traveler; Organize your Android phone's home screen;
SC Politics
S.C. police told to adjust Taser policies after federal court's excessive force ruling; CPD is Watching You;
Public comments on Jewish community stirs controversy at Charleston City Council;
The General Assembly returns to Columbia to do its worst; State lawmaker proposes gun law exemption and regulating journalists;

Finance and Economics
Federal deficit to rise to $544 billion; These 12 slides predict the next global financial collapse; 6 Reasons Healthcare Is So Expensive in the U.S.;
China GDP growth lowest since 1990; Saudi Arabia says $30 oil is 'irrational';
Court Refuses To Block "Clean Power Plan"; Big Three California Utilities Back Rooftop Solar Counterproposal; Half of plastic trash in oceans comes from 5 countries;
Mysterious electric failures downing advanced U.S. drones; United, Southwest buy 73 Boeing jets in blow to Bombardier;
Taxpayers Call Themselves Businesses as Kansas Tax Plan Founders;
2 Ways How to Buy IPO Stocks before First Day of Trading;
Can virtual reality get you to pay for porn again?

Education:
Building a New Research-University System; Does Higher Education Perpetuate Inequality? Campus climate of fear imperils academe;
Report Says Transfer System From 2-Year to 4-Year Colleges Isn't Working; Free Community College: It's More Complicated Than That, Researchers Say;
New Report Urges Revolution In College Admissions Process; Reinventing College Admissions as a Measure of Ethical Behavior;
For Illinois's Public Colleges, No State Money Means Plenty of Pain; University Of Illinois Considering Tuition Freeze;
Obama Administration Calls For Pell Grant Expansion;
More U.S. academic groups join boycott of Israel - and critics push back;

1/15/16
TechNews for the week: January 15; January 13; January 11;

War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Sunni vs Shi'a: New flare-up rooted in ancient hatre; The hard part: Sunnis vs. Shiites, Abadi vs. Maliki, Kurds vs. Everyone; Is The Saudi-Iran War America's Fault;
2 Small US Navy Boats With 10 Sailors Aboard Held By Iran; Iran Releases 10 Navy Sailors;
Islamic State claims Jakarta attack, targets Indonesia for first time; Why the Islamic State Just Hit Jakarta; ISIS Suicide blast kills 10 in Istanbul tourist area;
Putin May Not Help Push Assad Out of Power After All;
Swedish foreign minister calls for inquiry into Israeli violence; Israel to bar Sweden from any role in future diplomatic process with Palestinians;
Former CIA chief in Benghazi challenges the story line of the new movie '13 Hours';
Senator Tom Cotton Received Nearly $1 Mil To Oppose Iran Deal;
Anti-doping agency ties Putin to former IAAF chief in scandal;
Self-styled militia group joins Oregon occupation, could raise tensions;
Election year controversies will put Supreme Court front and center; Supreme Court to review corruption conviction of former Va. governor Robert McDonnell;
What America would look like without gerrymandering;
Why Alan Grayson will Sue Cruz Over Presidential Eligibility; Citizenship Status Challenged In Birther Lawsuit;
Supreme Court overrules Florida death penalty sentencing scheme;
Transcript of Obama's final State of the Union; Ohio GOP Rep. Just Found Out He Invited Kim Davis To The State Of The Union;
3 winners and 3 losers from Thursday night's Republican presidential debate; Muslim woman gets kicked out out of Trump rally - for protesting silently;

Math, science and technology:
Security issues
January Crypto-Gram, The Internet of Things, NSA and more;
Cyber Attacks on Industrial Control Systems Increase; Michael Hayden and the Dutch Government Are against Crypto Backdoors;
Software gives police a way to calculate your threat 'score'; The Internet of Things that Talk About You Behind Your Back;
Ransomware, Cyber-Spying Among Top Security Trends to Watch; IT Security and the Normalization of Deviance;
European Court Lets Employers Monitor Personal Messages at Work; Fighting DRM in the W3C;
Woman Sues Twitter for Husband's Death by Militants;
Squirrels Said To Be Greater Enemy Than Hackers;
Math and science
600 million years ago, a biological mishap changed everything;
Spotted in space: An explosion far brighter than the entire Milky Way; A famous physicist is tweeting rumors about gravitational waves;
Archaeologists find 'best-preserved' UK Bronze Age dwellings; Ancient crocodile discovered in the Sahara was almost as long as a bus;
Planetary Defense Office To Track Asteroids Passing Near Earth;
3-D Printing Increasingly Being Used In Surgery;
The ways you're most likely to die, at every age;
The mathematically proven strategy to win 14 of the most popular games;
Web and computing issues
Apps Can Help Drivers Keep Eyes Off Phones; What I Like About Hypothes.is; Peach, the new social app;
FCC Wants to Increase Broadband Availability; Netflix to Block Proxies to Control Local Video Access;
The web browser to use if you care at all about security;
CES 2016: The crowded field of 3D printers;
SC Politics
Haley Joins The Establishment; Nikki Haley Made a Ton of Republican Enemies;
Neither Party Cares About Debt;

Finance and Economics
Wall St. hemorrhages; S&P 500 hits lowest level since Oct 2014; Republican Deficit Hypocrisy;
China not affecting fundamentals of U.S. economy; China will find it tough to achieve over 6.5 percent growth over 2016-2020; Meet China's Killer Drones;
Immigrants Fuel U.S. Science and Engineering Workforce;
Climate Concerns Sparks Effort To Develop Next-gen Energy; Obama announces moratorium on some new coal leases;
Renewables Rake In Record $329.3 Billion In Investment As Oil Prices Tumble; US To Spend $220 Million To Upgrade Electric Grid;
US Regulators, Automakers To Reveal Safety Agreement Friday;
Alberta Regulators Halt Fracking Operations After Earthquake;
Drones Bring Debate About Property Rights Of Air Above Homes, Yards;
How big your retirement fund should be at every age; How You Should Manage Your Money;
Other news
50 years later, disagreements over young Trump's military academy record;

Education:
There's a good reason Americans are horrible at science; Willful Ignorance on Campus;
For a Slot at a 4-Year University, Some North Carolina Students Could Soon Need a Community-College Degree; Illinois lawmakers leave college students in a financial bind;
Small Changes in Teaching: The First 5 Minutes of Class; Communicating With Students: A Suggestion About Email;
Giant For-Profit Apollo, U. of Phoenix's Owner, May Sell Itself; Mapping a MOOC Reveals Global Patterns in Student Engagement;
Newspaper Says Cheating by International Students Is Rampant at British Universities;
U.Oregon Cancels Branding Contract, Will Spend Money on Academics;
As Federal Sex-Assault Investigations Multiply, Resolutions Remain Elusive;
Many College Athletes Say They Want More Time Away From Sports; NCAA Delays Moves to Reduce Demands on Athletes' Time;
Salaries for Power Five conference bosses soar; How colleges exploit unpaid black athletes;
Investigation Clears U. of Texas Athletics of Academic-Misconduct Allegations; NCAA Fines U. of Louisiana Campus, Finding Former Coach Faked Test Scores;
Athletes fumble in end run around drug tests;

1/8/16
TechNews for the week: January 8; January 6; January 4;

War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Victory in Ramadi is milestone for U.S. strategy in Iraq ; Following the ISIS collapse in Ramadi, militants intensify siege of Haditha;
Saudis execute prominent Shiite cleric, 46 others; Saudi Arabia breaks off diplomatic relations with Iran; Iran accuses Saudi Arabia of airstrike on its embassy in Yemen;
Saudi Arabia recruits Sunni allies in row with Iran; Executions send message to Saudi public; Fear and Loathing in Saudi Arabia;
BREMMER: 'Saudi Arabia is in serious trouble, and they know it'; Obama administration keeps its distance from Saudi Arabia-Iran fight;
Obama administration plans shake-up in propaganda war against ISIS;
Rouhani labelled 'fake revolutionary' as Iran's hardliners hit back;
Islamic State fighters target Libya's main oil terminals; Taliban claim suicide attack on contractor camp in Kabul;
It's too late for a two-state solution in Israel and Palestine; US donors pump millions into settlements; Why Israel's schools merit a U.S. boycott;
Defiance among rogue settlers as Israel accuses Jewish youth of murder; Israel's Elite Spy Unit Slam Israel's Occupation Of Palestine;
A danger to Israeli democracy; Israeli officials fear a looming disaster: the collapse of the Palestinian Authority; Israel's six-state reality;
Oil drives our Israel policy: New government documents reveal a very different history of America and the Middle East;
North Korea Claims It Has Successfully Tested Hydrogen Bomb; No evidence to support North Korean claim;
Armed militia, Bundy brothers take over federal building in rural Oregon; Why aren't we calling the Oregon occupiers 'terrorists'?
In 2015 police shootings deaths more than double the average number reported by FBI ; Obama administration unveils executive actions aimed at reducing gun violence;
Poll: Republicans angrier than Democrats;
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore goes after gay marriage again after son indicted;
Texas Governor calls for 9 amendments to U.S. Constitution;

Math, science and technology:
Security issues
How the US Is Playing Both Ends on Data Privacy; Straight Talk about Terrorism; How Stories Deceive; the full article;
NSA Spies on Israeli Prime Minister;
Internet Devices Create Privacy Concerns; Windows 10 Whole-Disk Encryption without Key Escrow;
Math and science
The fuel NASA needs for exploring deep space; How calculating the gravity on distant stars could tell of habitable planets;
Should physicians abandon the stethoscope for new technology;
The lingering health effects of the Civil War in the South;
What scientists just discovered in Greenland could be making sea-level rise even worse;
The Man Who Studies the Spread of Ignorance;
Web and computing issues
FTC's 'Do Not Track' Efforts Falter Online;
How to wipe your phone or tablet before you sell it; 11 Windows 10 Apps For Your Upgraded PC;
Windows 10 budges a bit as masses cling to Windows 7; How to block Windows 10 upgrades on your business network (and at home, too);
Twitter reconsiders 140-character limit;
SC Politics
Most House lawmakers are late to work; State pension fund shifts $840 million into stocks; Wendell Gilliard: Pay poll workers $15 an hour;
For Charleston-area homicides, 2015 was one of the deadliest years;
Paddlers, power boaters uneasy bedfellows at Folly River landing;

Finance and Economics
U.S. added 292,000 jobs in December; jobless rate held at 5 percent; U.S. payrolls surge in December in boost to economic outlook;
Stocks drop on China, energy woes; 3 reasons for concern about the Chinese economy; Bill Gross thinks things are about to get so bad we're all going to need a Xanax;
WPost Analysis: Solar, Wind Power Soaring Despite Low Fossil Fuel Prices; LATimes Analysis: Oil Companies "Safeguarded" Against Global Warming In 2015;
Kansas tax collections $27M short of expectations in December, raising more budget concerns;
Union case before Supreme Court draws major legal backing on both sides;
Feds: 181,000 drones now registered; Northrop Grumman To Equip Navy Ships With Drones;
Companies Shows Off New Technologies And Products At CES;
Other news
Comic Sums up the Double Standard Used to Excuse White Violence; Removing Racist Symbols Isn't a Denial of History;
Boston Marathon Gets Its 1st Documentary; How to stick with your exercise resolution: Drink beer;
10 unusual things you can clean in the washing machine;

Education:
Report: US Has Highest Spending, But Not The Best Performance In Higher Education; Study: Racial Gap In College Completion Rates Higher Since 2007;
A Lecture From the Lectured ; Comment: What Should Graduates Know? Early number sense plays role in later math skills; Diversity Courses Are in High Demand;
Virginia, Maryland Colleges Facing Enrollment Challenges; How For-Profit Education Is Now Embedded in Traditional Colleges;
Public Colleges Lead in Adopting Competency-Based Programs; The Promise and Limits of 'Learning Analytics';
Illinois Students Take More AP Exams, But Passage Rate Falls; Study: Male STEM Faculty Less Likely To Believe Gender Bias Research Than Peers;
What It's Like to Be Black at the U. of Missouri; Wheaton College prepares to fire professor who said Muslims and Christians worship the same God;
Head of Tennessee Regents Resigns in Protest of Governor's Autonomy Plan;
Apple Watch: Get ready for cheating in the classroom;
NCAA Considers Easing Demands on Athletes' Time; College Football Players Disqualified By Concussions Are Recruited Back;

1/1/16
TechNews for the week: December 30; December 28;

War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Iraqi army reclaims key city of Ramadi; War against Islamic State altering borders in Middle East; Plans for Redrawing the Middle East;
IS leader urges uprising in Saudi, attacks in Israel; ISIS leader Baghdadi to Jews: Palestine will be your graveyard; Al-Baghdadi Releases Message As Challenges Multiply;
Evacuation of Islamic State fighters from Damascus delayed; Seized documents reveal Islamic State's Department of 'War Spoils';
Syrian army launches assault against rebels near border with Israel; Report: Hezbollah Fighters Quit Syria's War;
Erdogan meets Hamas leader Meshaal in Istanbul; Turkey sees no normalization of Israel ties without end to Gaza blockade;
Netanyahu agrees not to allow Women to read Torah at Western Wall; Netanyahu: We've been in Hebron for 4 millennia, we will not be moved;
Israel plans over 55,000 new West Bank settler homes; Israel warns Brazil in row over settler ambassador;
Resurgent Taliban has Afghan officials increasingly grim;
U.S. spy agencies resist push for more scrutiny of top employees;
Chicago police officer shoots, kills man and woman; Emails reveal coordination after teen's death; Officers have fatally shot nearly 1,000 civilians in 2015;
Judge sides with voters groups in Florida Senate redistricting case; Ohio Gov. says End gerrymandering;
Inside the GOP voting-rights scheme intended to steel the 2016 election; Democrats are now in real danger of becoming extinct in the South;
Pornographic email scandal roils Pennsylvania politics;
How Trump manipulates the media; Trump unloads on 'lowlife' newspaper publisher after critical editorial; Analysis: Donald Trump, Israel and the Jews;

Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Number of Corporate Cyberattacks Doubled in 2015; China Passes Anti-Terrorism Law with Cyber Provisions; Yahoo to Warn Users of State-Sponsored Attacks;
Terrorism Prompts Questions About Strength of First Amendment Online;
NSA/GCHQ Exploits Against Juniper Networking Equipment; Microsoft to Notify Users of Government Outlook Hackings;
Internet-connected homes open the door to hackers; DMCA and the Internet of Things; Software Security and the Internet of Things;
Report: 191M voter records exposed online; Flaw found in AVG's Web safety software;
Math and science
Scientists Say World's Freshwater Lakes Are Getting Warmer;
Archaeological dig in central Israel uncovers Byzantine church and 2700-year-old farm;
NASA Developing Scout Drones To Locate Shelter On Mars;
Web and computing issues
Top 10 Internet Law News Stories of 2015;
10 Messaging Apps for Mobile Device Users Who Are Tired of SMS; How to recycle your phone for cash;
Scientific Papers Examining The Feasibility Of Events In Fictional Works;
SC Politics
South Carolina police shootings: 9 lessons; The coming year will mark a watershed moment in American politics;
Consumers' Choice patients caught up in hospital, insurance company negotiations;
Charleston preserves its beauty and its flaws in amber; Citadel alums support 4th class system;

Finance and Economics
For the Wealthiest, a Private Tax System That Saves Them Billions; Solar Tax Extenders Said To Endanger National Parks;
Oil down 3 percent, Brent near 11-year low on fears of weaker 2016; Tech To Expand, Traditional Industries To Shrink In 2016;
China's Central Asian highway sets up tug of war for dominance with Russia; China manufacturing continues to shrink;
Preemption Of Local Drone Rules By FAA Angers City, State Officials;
Smartphones Moving To AMOLED, IHS Speculates Apple May Be Next;
Other news
Michael Moore just exploded the right's biggest lie ;
States That Can Decide the 2016 Presidential Election;

Education:
Higher Education Experts Talk About The Future;
College Board Looking To Reclaim Top Spot From ACT;
Virginia Governor's Plan Would Reverse Years Of Higher Education Funding Cuts; New York Launches New Student Debt Forgiveness Plan;
State Bills Would Allow Concealed Weapons On College Campuses;
As college sports revenue spikes, coaches aren't the only ones cashing in; Racial prejudice is driving opposition to paying college athletes;
Schools ease athlete penalties for marijuana;