Politics

Whoever said there’s no such thing as a free ride hasn’t seen Uber’s latest promotion. The car-service booking app, which came under fire last week for boosting prices in New York in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, says today that it’s going to give free rides to voters tomorrow. It’s pairing up with Rock the Vote Continue Reading →

Google isn’t treating searches related to presidential candidates fairly, a new report charges. The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that it commissioned a study on the way in which search results related to President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are displayed on Google. The study found that when users search for “Obama” or “Romney,” Google displays Continue Reading →

A decade and a half into the web revolution, we do much of our banking and shopping online. So why can’t we vote over the Internet? The answer is that voting presents specific kinds of very hard problems. Even though some countries do it and there have been trial runs in some precincts in the Continue Reading →

Looking at the interpretation of polls in the presidential race, you might think there are actually two distinct races: the one from the Democrats’ point of view and the one from the Republicans’ point of view. The Democrats say President Obama has a numerical lock on the Electoral College. The Republicans say Romney is well Continue Reading →

Agile is a framework for software development defined as: “…  a group of software development methods based on iterative and incremental development, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams. It promotes adaptive planning, evolutionary development and delivery, a time-boxed iterative approach, and encourages rapid and flexible response to change.” Wikipedia Which Continue Reading →

Depending on who you ask, and indeed how much you even care, Tuesday night is going to be a long one. If you buy the arguments of the prognosticators lean on the latest national polls such as this one from The Wall Street Journal and NBC News the race will go down to the wire, with Continue Reading →

We are drowning in data. In this age of analyzing everything from exit, phone and online polls to the sentimentality of Tweets and the Like, we have managed to turn the electoral process into a chess match of data. For the data wonks in the room, we have died and gone to algorithmic heaven. For the rest Continue Reading →

There are numerous places on the web where you can find election results, but there’s not just one place to get the complete and balanced picture. On Friday, Microsoft is announcing it has put together a solution to help get rid of the noise on the Internet while also giving you a place to get Continue Reading →

In the wake of the second Presidential debate, the media has focused, rightfully, on Governor Romney’s comments about a “binder full of women.” To be clear, he said, “And — and so we — we took a concerted effort to go out and find women who had backgrounds that could be qualified to become members Continue Reading →

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that enough is enough. The agency has had it with illegal prerecorded telemarketing calls and wants you to solve the problem. The free FTC Robocall Challenge is offering a $50,000 cash prize to whoever creates the best technical solution that blocks commercial robocalls on landlines and mobile phones. For Continue Reading →