Q. Why did the comedian Tweeter cross the road?..

A. .. to steal someone else’s joke posted on Twitter??

The Grauniad reports today on the latest spat in the turf war that is developing on Twitter between comedians trying out jokes and material…

Ok, actually no Hitler at all, but a usefully cynical video:-)

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A while back I blogged about how delighted I was to have been invited by the EPSRC to a retreat to discuss robot ethics, along with a dozen and half or so other experts drawn not just from robotics and AI itself but also from industry, the arts, media and cultural…

Google has released a tool , to much media and legal interest, which allows the public to see what requests are made by governments for information about users and, in particular, what requests were made to “take down” or censor content altogether. We have…

Do robots need laws? : a summer post:)

I can so use this for the EPSRC Robotics Retreat I am going to in September!! (via io9 with…

Since every other blogger in the universe has discussed how the US is going to stop Wikileaks, perhaps it’s time for Pangloss to enter the fray, with the not terribly unexpected news that Amazon (in its cloud hosting services capacity) have indeed decided to stop acting as new temporary host…