A Brazilian court ordered Apple, Google and Microsoft to delete the Secret app (and a similar one) from their app stores.

Nobody should use that app; it is proprietary software, so the users don't control it and it may well be malware (as many proprietary programs are).

The Apple and Microsoft operating systems are proprietary and full of malware, too, as is Google Play which is part of Android.

Notwithstanding that, this court decision is oppression, pure and simple. But what makes the decision so damaging is that Apple and Microsoft have built censorship of apps into their operating systems. Now Brazil is using their censorship systems for its own purposes.

E-Cigarettes Should Be Called 'Nicotine Sticks' to Curb Appeal, Experts Say.

I suggest calling them "nicotine inhalers" and designing them to look like the inhalers for other drugs — totally un-cool.

The number of manatees in Florida has increased greatly since they were protected, so the question is whether to designate them as "threatened" rather than "endangered".

A species can't survive if its habitat is wiped out. The US often protects one endearing endangered species as a way of protecting the whole ecosystem, including many other species, that it lives in. It seems that manatees are an example of this. The existing restrictions enable manatees to coexist with human water activities, but this redesignation would permit land development that could wipe out all of them.

Plutocrats want the benefits of socialism for them, plus "small government" to strand the rest of us.

Hong Kong has launched accusations of bribery against a media mogul that campaigns for democracy.