Mark Colvin

It ain't what you do, it's the way that you get a robot to do it

guardian.co.uk — When the robots rise up against us, I'm not sure we're going to put up much of a fight. The portents are ominous. The Xbox One was launched last week. It initially sounded like an innumerate sequel to the Xbox 360 - but they probably mean "One" in the sense of unity.

Vitamin C kills drug-resistant TB in lab tests

bbc.co.uk — Vitamin C can kill multidrug-resistant TB in the lab, scientists have found. The surprise discovery may point to a new way of tackling this increasingly hard-to-treat infection, the US study authors from Yeshiva University say in Nature Communications. An estimated 650,000 people worldwide have multidrug-resistant TB.

Interpol Rebuffs Russia on Its Hunt for a Kremlin Critic

nytimes.com — MOSCOW - Interpol has rejected a Russian request for a worldwide police hunt for William F. Browder, a British investment banker and a Kremlin nemesis who has made no secret of his whereabouts or of his battle against the government of President Vladimir V. Putin over accusations of human rights abuses.

Leaks Inquiries Show How Wide a Net Is Cast

nytimes.com — WASHINGTON - Even before the F.B.I. conducted 550 interviews of officials and seized the phone records of Associated Press reporters in a leak investigation connected to a 2012 article about a Yemen bomb plot, agents had sought the same reporters' sources for two other articles about terrorism.

Haircut | David Mitchell's SoapBox

youtube.com — David Mitchell talks about how difficult it is to get a good Haircut LIKE David Mitchell's Soapbox @ http://on.fb.me/davidmitchellsoapbox David Mitchell's Soapbox DVD @ http://amzn.to/soapboxdvd ABOUT DAVID MITCHELL'S SOAPBOX: David Mitchell, star of UK TV favourites Peep Show and That Mitchell and Webb Look, brings us his unique perspective on the issues facing men of the world today.

James Goodale on Obama, Nixon, the Free Press -- Daily Intelligencer

nymag.com — James Goodale knows a thing or two about whistleblowers. As a First Amendment lawyer, he represented the New York Times in the Pentagon Papers case against the Nixon administration and recently wrote about his experience and its implications today in Fighting for the Press: The Inside Story of the Pentagon Papers and Other Battles .

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