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Voting machine problems reported in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
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David Talbot
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I’m MIT Technology Review's chief correspondent, keeping an eye most often on the world of information and communication technologies—and asking my kids when I don’t understand what’s going on. Recent projects have taken me to Kenya to write about mobile-phone-based health initiatives, and Germany to explore how they’ll ramp up renewable power while closing down nuclear plants. My 2008 feature on the Obama campaign’s social-networking operation was selected for The Best Technology Writing 2009.
David Talbot's Stories
Election Day: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Old touch-screen devices, lack of paper backup, and piles of absentee ballots could cause havoc.
EmTech: How to Merge the Tea Party with the Occupy Movement
Technology’s challenge in politics is to stitch together grassroots groups in a common fight against corruption.
EmTech: Reebok and MC10 will Launch an Impact-Sensing Skullcap for Sports
A flexible electronics startup, MC10, lifts the veil on its first commercial product, in partnership with Reebok.
What Google Knows About the Presidential Race
Political insight: people lie to pollsters, and probably on Facebook. But not to Google's search bar
Fighting Poverty by Clearing a Satellite Bottleneck
In India, new technology aims to help more poor farmers skirt loan-sharks and get real banking services.
635,392 U.S. Road Miles Lack 3G or 4G
FCC takes a stab at closing parts of the nation's wireless divide
One Bad Apple Spoils the Ride
iOS6 maps are so bad, it warrants re-asking why the software industry has no quality standard.
Is Apple Really Planning Self-Charging iPhones?
An Apple patent is just the latest in a broad industry effort to expand battery life.
Next up: HTC and BlackBerry
Smartphone month continues with imminent HTC announcement and leaked photos of delayed Blackberry10
