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Personal technology columnist for the Wall Street Journal
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Geoffrey Fowler
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Smart teenager creates smart gun There has been a lot of talk about smart gun technology, but little action because of industry resistance. But an MIT freshman named Kai Kloepfer has presented what he believes is a viable working model of a fingerprint-enabled smart gun. Geoffrey Fowler of the Wall Street Journal has been reporting on the project's development and believes Kloepfer could "disrupt" the gun industry.
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A Virtual Gravestone for Your Loved Ones As the personal technology columnist for the Wall Street Journal , Geoffrey Fowler usually writes about smart phones and other digital devices. But earlier this month after unexpected e-mail "knocked the wind out" of him with the news that an old friend had passed away, he began surfing the net in a search for options for online memorials.
Which Way, L.A.?
Everything Is Illuminated at the Consumer Electronics Show So far, the most talked about moment at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was a malfunction -- a human one -- when Tranformers director Michael Bey walked off the stage at a Samsung event because his teleprompter wasn't working properly. Here to talk about that and some of the stuff that is working at the show is Geoffrey Fowler, personal technology columnist for the Wall Street Journal.
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Terrorism and tweets, hate speech and murder Just days before an election, Britain is coping with a rash of deadly terrorism, and Prime Minister Theresa May is on the defensive. And again today, President Trump has tweeted criticism of the Mayor of London. Later, a double murder in Portland, Oregon has revealed the ugly past of a supposedly “progressive” city. One immediate question: is “hate speech” protected by the First Amendment?
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White House budget proposal slashes and burns President Trump's first budget request is considered dead on arrival in Congress — a familiar development in Capitol Hill. We hear what it reveals about the priorities of the new administration. What's likely to die… and what might survive?
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Trump's new look at civil rights and global warming President Trump is reportedly ready to pull the US out of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. We look at the possible consequences. On the second half of the program, we hear about cuts in Obama-Era civil rights programs called for by the Trump Administration's first budget plan.
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Trump's 'America First' goes missing abroad In the Middle East, President Trump is changing some policies of the Obama Administration—and reversing his own campaign attacks on Islam as a religion that "hates us." We hear about his visit to Saudi Arabia and what's at stake for the rest of his foreign excursion.