Technology

CALIFORNIA WATER CONSERVATION
State regulators approve unprecedented water cutbacks with fines of up to $10,000 for extreme wasters of water.

CHICAGO VOTES ON POLICE TORTURE
City Council considers a reparations package for suspects tortured by Chicago Police from 1972 through 1991.

PRINCE VISITS BALTIMORE
His Baltimore concert will follow city's unrest over the death of a man who was injured and died in police custody.

NEW WORDS?
Dictionary.com announces that Agender, Brogrammer, and Gesture now have new meanings used online..

TECHNOLOGY FIRMS PREFER ASIANS

Signs of the shrinking reporting power are documented throughout this year’s report. Estimates for newspaper newsroom cutbacks in 2012 put the industry down 30% since 2000 and below 40,000 full-time professional employees for the first time since 1978. In local TV, our special content report reveals, sports, weather and traffic now account on average for 40% of the content produced on the newscasts studied while story lengths shrink. On CNN, the cable channel that has branded itself around deep reporting, produced story packages were cut nearly in half from 2007 to 2012.

If there was ever one thing that Republicans and Democrats have in common, it's that they can be split on issues within their respective parties. And that would be the case for both parties when it come to Intellectual Property and Privacy on the Internet. If you get onto the GOP website and read their Party Platforms, you will find two sections that are centered on the internet. The first section, labeled "Protecting Internet Freedom", is a paragraph at is quite vague. They talk about how the internet has helped fuel new innovation more than any other technological advancement.