Brooklyn Startup Addresses Gun Violence with Climate Jobs
BlocPower’s "Civilian Climate Corps" program provides paid, on-the-job training to New Yorkers who live in neighborhoods with high rates of gun violence.
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Prayer for a Time of Plagues
Today’s plagues are more than 10, but as I head to a Passover Seder, I cannot help thinking of the parallels. Maintaining optimism is getting harder, but being in tech helps.
Pentagon to Destroy $1 Billion Worth of Ammunition Because Data Doesn’t Talk
While the Defense Department prepares to rid itself of roughly $1.2 billion worth of bullets and missiles, it has come to the attention of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and members of Congress that some...
How Do You Regulate 3D-Printed Guns?
Ethical technological question of the day: If technology is neither good nor evil, but simply a means to an end, what happens when that end has potentially dangerous consequences? Cody Wilson, a University of Texas...
Will Effective Gun Control Come from The Hill or The Valley?
While Washington legislators try to figure out how to enact policy to reduce the growing number of mass shootings, technologists are looking for alternative solutions. A group of investors led by Ron Conway has formed...
A Gun Made from a 3D Printer? Techno-Challenges Grow More Complex
At Techonomy we believe that just about literally everything is being transformed by technology, especially Internet technology, and we also are quite psyched about 3D printing. It's another example of the empowerment of individuals—in the...