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Wyden introduces sweeping privacy legislation

Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore.,introduced sweeping new privacy legislation Thursday, called the Mind Your Own Business Act, to create what he called the strongest-ever protections for Americans’ private data and to hold accountable the corporate executives responsible for abusing our information. Wyden’s bill contains the most comprehensive protections for Americans’ private data ever introduced, and goes

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OSU study: Blue light exposure may speed aging

Prolonged exposure to blue light, such as that which emanates from your phone, computer and household fixtures, could be affecting your longevity, even if it’s not shining in your eyes, Oregon State University researchers said Thursday. New research at OSU suggests that the blue wavelengths produced by light-emitting diodes damage cells in the brain as

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Bend deploying drones to help inspect buildings

The city of Bend has been testing out a new method to perform building inspections. The inspectors will no longer be strapping into harnesses and climbing on roofs. Instead, city officials say, those same inspectors are now flying drones. Bend’s Building Safety Division started this program in January. That’s when the first inspector became certified

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OSU researcher uses miniatures to test self-driving cars

An autonomous systems expert at Oregon State University is helping to lead an effort to build research infrastructure for the safety, performance and security of driverless cars, supported by a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The project, a collaborative effort with the University of Pennsylvania and Clemson University, will put one-tenth-scale autonomous

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