Новости за 08.01.2013

Walt Mossberg looks ahead at the technology trends of 2013.

Andy Murray's take on the ATP's new serving regulations, Roger Federer gets back to tennis, and addressing Maria Sharapova's new boyfriend rumor.

Economic Freedom of the States of India

At a time when India has benefited from sustained high growth as a result of liberal reforms, it is important to measure economic freedom within this vast country and to highlight the diverse levels of freedom from state to state. The Economic Freedom of the States of India 2012 report demonstrates the significant differences in economic governance that exist in India. The index is based on the Fraser Institute's Economic Freedom of the World report. Читать дальше...

Why the Hagel Nomination Matters

President Obama on Monday nominated former GOP Sen. Chuck Hagel as the next Secretary of Defense, replacing the retiring Leon Panetta. Neoconservatives are in an uproar over the selection. Cato scholar Justin Logan suggests that the pending battle over Hagel's nomination could be a "perestroika moment" in the American foreign and defense policy debate. "If Hagel survives this process," argues Logan, "it will show that you can... Читать дальше...

About a decade ago, novelist Emily Raboteau went to Jerusalem to visit a childhood friend who’d made aliyah. The trip provoked yearnings in Raboteau, the biracial daughter of an African-American father and white mother, for a place where she could feel at home, a Zion of her own. Six years later, that yearning led her […]

The first holiday that's all about guns will take place a little over a month after Sandy Hook.

The Gadget Lab staff scoured each jam-packed aisle to discover some of the best gems of 2013, including a gigantic Huawei phone, new LEGO Mindstorms, and a music-controlled back massager. Watch the video above to check it out!

A Rational Response to the Privacy ‘Crisis’

Between Congress, the European Union, and U.S. state legislatures, there are at least a dozen major proposed new laws in the hopper that are aimed at resolving very specific presumed crises that threaten consumer privacy. In a new study, Internet industry analyst Larry Downes says that calls for ill-considered new laws threaten the remarkable economic conditions that have fueled the Internet revolution up until now. Читать дальше...