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Digital infrastructure is more than just broadband: What the US can learn from Europe’s open source technology policy study (Frank Nagle, Brookings)

Technology and innovation have long been known to be key drivers of growth allowing companies and countries to better compete. The recent U.S. infrastructure...

Texas’s new social media law is likely to face an uphill battle in federal court (John Villasenor, Brookings)

In early September, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law House Bill 20, a new social media law targeting what Gov. Abbott called “a dangerous movement...

Big cities aren’t dividing America. They hold the key to our collective future (Amy Liu and Alan Berube, Brookings)

Over the past several years, it’s become increasingly convenient to label cities and metro areas as “blue” and prosperous and rural areas as “red”...

U.S.-Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue (US Department of State)

The 25th Annual U.S.-Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue was held on November 9, 2021, in Washington, DC. Acting Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights, and...

Joint Statement on the U.S.-Egypt Strategic Dialogue (US Department of State)

The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America and the Arab Republic of Egypt on...

Deputy Secretary Sherman’s Meeting with Uruguayan Interior Minister Héber (US Department of State)

The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Deputy Secretary of State Wendy R. Sherman met with Uruguayan Interior Minister Luis Héber today in Montevideo, Uruguay. Deputy Secretary Sherman and Interior Minister Héber discussed the positive and productive collaboration and partnership between the United...

Exercises using virtual reality to relieve COVID breathlessness (Shital Sarah Ahaley Ph.D, News Medical)

Patients recovering from severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia often suffer from refractory breathlessness. A recent study published on the preprint server medRxiv* conducted at the University...

Virtual reality is fighting loneliness, both on Earth and in space (Katerina Stepanova, The Next Web)

It takes seven months to get to Mars in an efficiently engineered spaceship, covering the distance of 480 million kilometers. On this journey, a crew...

Three Ways Virtual Reality Is Revolutionizing Corporate Learning (Stephen Baer, Forbes)

Although we might still be a long way from dialing into the Matrix, virtual reality has evolved significantly since Heilig’s Sensorama in the 1960s, and it...

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