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Barely a week before he leaves office, U.S. President Barack Obama's administration has authorized controversial new legislation that grants America's 16 intelligence organizations access to raw commu

R.I.P. Barack Obama's inbox. Among the many secrets and not-so-secrets exposed by WikiLeaks in the dump of Clinton campaign head John Podesta's emails is the president's personal email address.

The president just made a joke about Samsung's ongoing exploding-phone problem during a speech. If this isn't peak Note 7, I don't know what is.

At an SXSL panel on Monday, President Obama, actor, environmentalist and philanthropist Leonardo DiCaprio and scientist Katharine Hayhoe discussed climate change and what we can possibly due to curb i

Regardless of your political orientation, it is hard to argue against the success of the digital media strategy that President Obama and his team implemented to engage millions of Americans over the p

On the heels of the White House Computer Science For All initiative (#CSForAll) announcement and the celebration of National Engineers Week, we are excited about the work being done to make STEM op

President Obama’s recent announcement of the creation of the Cybersecurity National Action Plan (CNAP) made waves across government and tech audiences, as it proposed a $19 billion budget to bulk up

We’re now a year into the White House’s TechHire initiative to help more Americans qualify for better, higher-paying tech jobs regardless of their pedigree. The verdict so far? TechHire has seen s

Obama has asked the American people to do what they can to aid the Syrian refugee crisis. He's now asking Silicon Valley to do the same. The U.S. has provided $4.5 billion in aid to the crisis so far

On this week's episode of CrunchWeek, I was joined by TechCrunch writer Alex Wilhelm and editor Ryan Lawler to talk about the biggest surprises in the tech scene.

President Obama's recent comments in favor of strong net neutrality regulations ignited a fresh round of media coverage: He's opposed to Internet fast lanes! Hold loose everyone, we're in charted wate

Much has been said about the role social media has come to play in the global landscape over the last few years. Whether one sees it as the tool of revolutions or not, Facebook, Twitter, and other med

On March 22nd, a slightly modified "Jumpstart Our Business Startups (or JOBS) Act" <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/03/22/senate-passes-crowdfunding/">was approved by the Senate</a> in a 73-26 vot

Tonight, President Obama will give his 2012 State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress. The annual address, which will take place Tuesday night at 9pm EST/6pm PST (<a href="http://w

I recall a time a few years ago when Twitter was scoffed at. It was the <a href="http://www.techmeme.com/080428/p37#a080428p37">blogosphere's punching-bag</a>. It was the stupid little service that no