Phone systems don't always track phone location data correctly. Errors can lead to false criminal convictions.

In principle, they can also lead to false acquittals.

The crucial point about these errors is that they aren't enough to make phone location tracking safe for society.

India has declared 2 million residents of Assam to be non-citizens, supposedly Bangladeshis though India made no effort to verify that.

The aim, I believe, is to kick out Muslims by labeling them as foreigners, but some Hindus were thus designated also. Court cases were decided in such a sloppy fashion you'd think it was Alabama.

In principle these people could be deported, but in practice Bangladesh will not accept them. With the cruelty of the BJP, they could be imprisoned until dead, or made into a caste of enslaved workers.

"A sustainable environment means consuming less, not differently. With retail therapy losing its appeal, that should be easy."

Oxfam Urges Shoppers Not to Buy New Clothes for a Month.

It should be easy. In most months, I don't buy any article of clothing.

Destruction of satellites in war could bring on the "Kessler syndrome" depicted in the film Gravity, making all space travel impossible.

This problem has already started, and it is getting worse, but very slowly. There are efforts to design a system to clean up the debris.

When I saw the film Gravity, all I felt at the end was sadness for this great loss. The survival of one astronaut made hardly any difference relative to that.

The bully's immigration prisons refused Congress access to inspect them.