At a recent town hall on Latino education, President Obama was asked if he owns an iPad. Yup! What about a computer? Uhh.
If you’re tired of online entitites playing fast and loose with the personal data of its users, you’ll be happy to hear that the Obama administration will attempt to pass legislation providing those users with a Bill of Rights regarding privacy on the internet.
BP’s oil spill disaster isn’t even the half of it. Bill Gates, the CEO of General Electric Jeffrey Immelt and various other senior-level corporate-types have issued a plea to the US government to triple spending on energy research to $US16 billion a year.
President Obama, no stranger to critical commentary on the Xbox 360 and video games, has turned his sights on the iPad, arguing in a Hampton University commencement address that the device turns information into a “distraction”.
If anyone has an Ares 1 rocket they need launching, NASA has a brand new, never-been-used $US500 million mobile launching pad that’s just itching to hurl something rocket-sized into space.
The NASA space program? Kind of hamstrung at the moment. But! Coming this April: An “ambitious plan” from the Obama Administration that will officially outline the agency’s future, and the future of U.S. space travel. The “plan” arrives this April 15. [MSNBC]
