Committee to Protect Journalists calls for an independent investigation of the killing of journalists in Yemen.

Although David Koch is no longer on the WGBH-TV board, he continues to exert his baneful influence on the science program NOVA.

Most of the refugees traveling to Europe by boat now are women and children.

The Internet Of Things Will Be The World's Biggest Robot.

The article suffers from a confusion when it says "It will collect data and do things in our interests; that's why we're building it." Who is this "we"? The most he could validly claim is that each part serves someone's interest.

In a just and democratic world, perhaps you could expect these devices to be benign towards you. In fact, parts are already designed and used to monitor and control people. For instance, since it is possible to spoof fitness data that insurance companies use to monitor people, the article advocates designing the devices to communicate with a company in a way that totally bypasses the subject being monitored. This demonstrates that they are a system of control imposed on a subject, not a product offered to a user.

The use of such devices for any sort of monitoring should be prohibited by law. All data they produce should be made available directly to the user, and only in that way.

These devices can probably tell whether someone is having sex (though Oral Roberts University says it isn't checking that at present).

I suppose that university permits only Oral sex.

Do not live-stream thugs' body cameras!

Here's my proposal for controlling them.