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Slow Down That Runaway Ethical Trolley

The runaway trolley has chased automated motor vehicles into the new year.   In early 2012, I raised a variation of the classic thought experiment to argu…

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Who Owns Yoga?

"“While yoga certainly originated in India,” says Sonia Katyal, a law professor at Fordham University who specializes in intellectual property, “its widesp…

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CISPA is back again. (Yes, again.)

Last evening we learned that Rep. Dutch Ruppersburger (D-MD) plans to again reintroduce the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA)…

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Death by Robot

"A robot’s lack of emotion is precisely what makes many people uncomfortable with the idea of trying to give it human characteristics. Death by robot is an…