E&T news weekly #101 – we choose our favourite engineering and technology news stories from the past week

Friday 1 July 2016  Jonathan Wilson, online managing editor Google and Facebook begin auto-blocking extremist videos And not before time. Freedom of speech is all well and good, and we like to think of it as a basic human right, but some things really do not need to be said, disseminated, repeated and amplified. Haters are always going to hate – and murderous lunatics are always going to murder – but there’s no need to encourage them in their twisted vanity by giving them a public platform from which to scream their demented extremist bile. Edible crops successfully grown in … Continue reading E&T news weekly #101 – we choose our favourite engineering and technology news stories from the past week