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When loss of life is inevitable, autonomous cars must choose who to spare. Machine ethics show a preference for the young and the physically fit.

New video by The King of Random on YouTube

Twitter detects possible state-sponsored activity from China, Saudi Arabia

How Facebook tracks you on Android (even if you don’t have a Facebook account)

Drones Used to Find Toy-Like “Butterfly” Land Mines - Quadcopters with thermal imagery cameras can help detect vicious mini-mines that often kill or maim children

The people who get how Facebook works are also the most likely to leave it - 44% of people aged 18 to 29 said they deleted the Facebook app from their phones in the last year, according to new research from Pew.

Doctors are asking Silicon Valley engineers to spend more time in the hospital before building apps

This Western Mass. town rejected Comcast and built its own broadband network - The Boston Globe

Computer virus hits newspapers coast-to-coast

China Will Still Go Massively Nuclear but Does Not Want Western Reactor Technology

Facebook Data Scandals Stoke Criticism That a Privacy Watchdog Too Rarely Bites