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City of Philadelphia Shoots Privacy In Foot With New App

By Mordechai Osdoby on August 15, 2012 in Future Tech, Odds And Ends, Politics

Want to know who got turned down for a gun permit? Turns out that there’s an app for that, at least in Philadelphia. There, the Department of Licenses and Inspection decided to release a web app that shows an insane amount of detail, on a handy-dandy, easy to use map. You can use the map […]

Someone You Know Is Being Ripped Off By The Phone Company

By Mordechai Osdoby on May 1, 2012 in Culture, Odds And Ends

We may not have jetpacks or cars that fold up into our suitcases, but this is absolutely the high-tech future that my parent’s TV shows promised. Most of us carry devices on us more powerful than the machines that put man on the moon. We have more ways to communicate than people we actually want […]

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