President Obama – Techcitement*

AP Twitter Hacked, Posts Fake Tweets About White House Bombing

Justin Davis — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:14:28 +0000

Earlier today, unspecified hackers took over the AP Twitter feed and sent out fake tweets claiming that two explosions had rocked the White House and President Obama had been injured. White House spokesman Jay Carney immediately told reporters that Obama was indeed fine and no such bombings had taken place. The AP Twitter account was […]

CISPA Passed This Week Against Objections, Pleas, And Rationality

Tim Twelves — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:00:08 +0000

I guess after being paid craploads of taxpayer money ($174,000 annually), Senators need to show something for it, given they have one of the laxest schedules imaginable. Some of the bills that have gone through the house in the last week or two have included rolling back insider trading rules, making Congress immune to prosecution, […]

NASA’s Real Space Cowboys Wrangle Asteroids

Megan Moten — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 13:30:02 +0000

The idea of harvesting resources from asteroids long predates space travel, and NASA is now taking the first steps toward bringing those celestial bodies down to Earth. Plans are being made for an entirely robotic spaceship able to haul a typical nearby asteroid, about 25 feet long and 500 tons, to a position near the […]

Tech Perplexes People At The Polls

Tom Wyrick — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:17:20 +0000

Despite the hope that technology could soon bring voting out of the age of paper ballots, it hasn’t really materialized in 2012. For starters, email proved to be problematic yesterday as New Jersey voters found issues with systems put together after Hurricane Sandy. Buzzfeed reports Essex County voters attempting to request ballots using an official […]

Fireside Chats 2.0 – Tweet With President Obama At 2 PM ET

Mordechai Osdoby — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:53:29 +0000

If there’s one job that’s been tweaked time and again by new technologies, it’s the President of the United States. Now, the Obama Administration takes the townhall model of interacting with the public to Twitter with the first ever Twitter @Townhall. While the actual White House uses lots of archaic tech, past administrations have embraced […]