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SAN DIEGO — What separates a drone from a smartphone? Well, other than the fact that your iPhone can’t fly (yet), drones don’t have an equivalent app store.

At least not for the moment, says Jordi Munoz, co-founder of the largest US commercial drone operation, 3D Robotics.

“The smartphone was a product that was intended for a consumer market, and now it went all the way to industrial applications and even the medical industry,” Munoz says. “The same is happening with drones.”

We’re sitting on the

Article source: http://www.cnet.com/news/3d-robotics-cnet-road-trip-2015/

When not inundating us with our daily requirements of photos of airplane wings and feet, Instagram likes to regularly remind us that it remains utterly baffled about so much when it comes to women. Its latest shining example of cluelessness? Banning the word “curvy.” Are you kidding?

Maybe this move shouldn’t come as a shock from the social media platform that earlier this year briefly disabled the account of Australian magazine Sticks and Stones over a photo of two women in bathing suits — and bikini areas that had been clearly left in their natural state. Two years ago, Instagram had a similar response when Toronto artist Petra Collins posted a photograph shared a photo of her body from the waist down, clad in underpants and with hairs peeking out. She too faced similar brief expulsion. This spring, Instagram found itself flummoxed again when poet Rupi Kaur posted a photo of herself with a telltale bloodstain on her pants and bedding. It was soon removed because “It doesn’t follow our community guidelines,” despite Instagram’s wealth of masculine, blood-riddled accident images.

And of course, it’s famously been opposed to female nipples — a double standard that heavyweights like Miley Cyrus, Chelsea Handler and Rihanna have all fiercely opposed. Last month Chrissy Teigen voiced her amusement when Instagram removed a shirtless photo of her from a W magazine shoot by warning, “The nipple has been temporarily silenced but she will

Article source: http://www.salon.com/2015/07/17/instagram_body_shames_its_users_curvy_photo_tags_are_banned_but_skinny_is_still_fair_game/

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Article source: http://www.usatoday.com/story/todayinthesky/2015/07/17/worlds-strangest-looking-airplane--closer-look---airbus-beluga/30298417/

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For at least two years, the Heights residents who lived near the vacant 731 East 8th Street complained about rats crawling around the property and the stench of gasoline. No one had occupied the parcel ever since the semi-employed lawyer who lived in a converted garage apartment, Parnell Stockstill, died of a heart attack at age 67. 

For a while, neighbor Barbara Farrell says, Stockstill parked a leaky motor home on the block, and when people complained, he moved it onto the fenced-in property, where it kept company with at least a dozen antique cars Stockstill collected: Studebakers, Cadillacs, a few T-birds. Soon, Farrell says, the fence became plastered with notices from city inspectors responding to complaints.

Farrell and another neighbor, Andy Valdez, were never really sure if Stockstill ever owned the property. He used to live across the street with a woman named Susan Phillips, and then the next thing neighbors knew, he was renovating the long-unoccupied property’s squalid garage. By 1994, he was living there. And in 2012, he died there.

Stockstill had no wife, no children, no legal heirs. In 2013, his sister, Baton Rouge resident Beverly Stockstill McGehee, initiated proceedings in probate court for her and another sister, Lanell Stockstill, to become administrators of their brother’s estate. In 2015, the sisters sold the property to a development company called Whitestone, for $345,000, turning a tidy profit off a rat- and junked-car-infested plot

Article source: http://www.houstonpress.com/news/the-strange-history-of-a-squatters-heights-property-7592890

The Internet of Things and the Inevitable Collision with Products Liability, published in February 2015, identified a number of factors leading to the emergence and phenomenal growth of the Internet of Things (IoT).  It also identified issues relating to potential product liability exposures and the impact that IoT-connected devices could have on risk assessment and risk transfer due to the consequences of foreseeable vulnerabilities and failures with IoT-connected products.

This second article addresses in more detail the emerging liability risks for the stakeholders at the forefront of the development and implementation of these technologies who, in turn, will be forced to confront those liabilities whether or not they are prepared to do so.

Several documented IoT failures have already occurred in 2015. Notably, Wonk’s wireless hub, which is connected to a variety of devices in homes via a single app, experienced a failure in April that disabled the connected devices, potentially leaving consumers vulnerable to breach of their home security systems or other failures. Chamberlain and Ooma also experienced failures, both of which involved compromised IoT connective services and resulted in disruptions that had the potential to affect customers’ home security.

The first IoT class action was brought in March 2015 spurred by the February publication of a report by U.S. Senator Edward Markey (D-MA), which was also covered on a CBS broadcast of 60 Minutes. The action was brought against Toyota Motor Corporation, Ford Motor Company and General Motors LLC. (Article source: http://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/the-internet-of-things-and-the-28947/