Gizmodo’s Guide to the 2016 Presidential Election
The 2016 presidential race is one of the most contentious in recent history, and it’s also one of the most complicated. Our next president, regardless of which party they come from, will be responsible for making important decisions about a number of complex issues: net neutrality, the environment, surveillance, cyber warfare, and space exploration are…
The 2016 Presidential Candidates’ Views on NASA and Space Exploration
Want to get to Mars? Well, NASA needs money to do it, and the president, along with Congress, mostly calls the shots. But NASA has been consistently underfunded over the last decade, and only saw its budget restored to healthier levels in 2016, when Congress carved out $19.3 billion for the agency. With missions to…
The 2016 Presidential Candidates’ Views on Net Neutrality and Broadband
The FCC ruled in favor of a free and open Internet in 2015, but the battle against that stance continues. Industry groups are appealing the FCC decision, in the hopes that they can delay or prevent the government from reclassifying broadband as a utility. President Obama was a strong advocate for net neutrality, and the…
The 2016 Presidential Candidates’ Views on Environmental Issues
When President Obama signed a climate-change agreement with almost 200 other nations in Paris last year, it was a major triumph for clean energy advocates around the world. But the truth is that the next US president will largely bear the burden of reducing the nation’s carbon emissions. There’s no question that climate change is…
The 2016 Presidential Candidates’ Views on Cyber Warfare
Cyber attacks are an ever-increasing threat to the US. Just last year, a colossal hack believed to be conducted by China revealed personal information of more than 21.5 million people—and that was just one attack. To get into the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, the FBI had to pay at least $1 million to a hacker…
The 2016 Presidential Candidates’ Most Embarrassing Tech Fails
The 2016 presidential candidates talk a big game when it comes to technology policy, but do they even understand the technology they’re using every day? Here’s a look at the candidates’ greatest tech blunders: Hillary Clinton Hillary Clinton used her family’s private email server for official communication while US Secretary of State. And as a…
The 2016 Presidential Candidates’ Views on Biomedical Research and Medicine
America is a leader in biomedical research and medicine, and much of the fiscal fuel behind that research comes from the government funding the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). Sure, scientific funding impacts our ability to understand myriad health conditions and figure out how to treat or prevent them.…
