Technology & Innovation

A 19-year-old British programmer, Joshua Browder, launched a bot that helps users appeal parking tickets, Danielle Muoio reports for Tech Insider. According to Muoio, the bot, which has been launched in London and New York, has successfully appealed 160,000 parking tickets out of 250,000, or 64 percent. As of February, the bot had successfully appealed […]

According to Kwame Opam at The Verge, researchers at the University of Stuttgart successfully used a 3D printer to create a three-lens camera small enough to be injected with a syringe. Such a device could potentially be used to take pictures inside human organs, including the brain. Opam writes that the researchers behind the camera […]

According to Bob O’Donnell, the future of personal computing lies in centralized, cloud-based services running on low-power devices. Writing for Fast Company, O’Donnell argues that declining sales numbers indicate that both PCs and tablets have hit their peak, while similar sales patterns suggest that smartphones may be next. With no obvious technological successor, cloud-based services […]

This week, the Federal Aviation Administration unveiled new rules for the commercial use of drones. According to The New York Times’ Cecilia Kang, the new rules allow businesses to use drones weighing less than 55 pounds so long as the pilot has passed a written test and flies below 400 feet. While Kang notes that […]

The Terrafugia Transition, a flying car built by the firm Terrafugia, has earned an exemption from the Federal Aviation Administration to be classified as a “light sport aircraft.” According to Jacob Bogage at The Washington Post, the FAA created this classification in 2004 to allow airplane makers to design personal aircraft without the longer and […]

As communication technology continues to become integrated into our daily lives, the internet is increasingly the go-to source for on-the-go information about where to shop, where to eat, where to work, and where to live. And thanks to the entrepreneurial innovation of businesses and consumers alike, the ability to share information through online user reviews […]

In his book Permissionless Innovation: The Continuing Case for Comprehensive Technological Freedom, Adam Thierer explains that we stand poised to enjoy even bigger advancements in technology, but only if we preserve a hands-off, “permissionless” approach to innovation that has been applied to information technology in recent decades.

“Why is innovation important?” This deceptively simple question sparked a wide-ranging and fruitful discussion last week in Washington, DC, as Stand Together Trust brought together a panel of technology policy experts to talk to a sold-out crowd about the future of innovation. The conversation, moderated by the Institute’s senior research and policy analyst Eric Alston, […]

Self-driving cars have repeatedly been hitting the headlines this year, and following some estimations that the futuristic technology could be on the market by 2017, this should come as no surprise. While a self-driving car that requires no human interaction has only recently become feasible, automated technology has existed for a while in the form […]

Wall Street may be facing some competition from new, innovative financial services that are looking to push their way into what has traditionally been perceived as an industry with huge barriers to entry. Funding Circle and SmartBiz are just some examples of new actors in financial markets that aim to make previously costly services like […]