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Britain's response to the NSA story? Back off and shut up Simon Jenkins

Snowden's revelations are causing outrage in the US. In the UK, Hague deploys a police-state defence and the media is silenced

On Monday the Guardian carried a story that British intelligence had spied on delegates at two G20 summits, those chaired by Gordon Brown in 2009.

WIPO: Informal Economy Innovates In The Absence Of Intellectual Monopolies

One of the problems with the debates around copyright and patents is that they too often assume that intellectual monopolies are necessary in order to promote innovation or even basic economic activity. But that overlooks all kinds of domains where that's not true.

Ooyala Sets Up R&D Center In Singapore To Chase Mobile Audiences In Asia

Video services provider Ooyala is setting up an R&D operations in Singapore, and is hiring researchers and data scientists for the facility.

D&D: Chronicles of Mystara gets enhanced PS3 retail release in Japan

While Capcom's arcade brawler compilation Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara hits the PlayStation Network in North America tonight (and Xbox Live Arcade tomorrow), D&D fans in Japan might want to hold out for an upcoming PlayStation 3 retail release, which of

Obama has not given up on tougher gun control reform, insists Joe Biden

Biden says senators who voted against extending federal background checks are now prepared to change their minds

Joe Biden has insisted that the Obama administration has not given up on its push for tougher gun laws in the wake of the Sandy Hook school shooting, and indicated that the White

Trade Candidate: Jose Veras

Since the beginning of the 2011 season, there are only 14 relievers who have posted a K/9 greater than 10,0 with a ground-ball rate of 40 percent or better.

KT Tunstall readies for a round North American concerts

Scottish singer/songwriter KT Tunstall will follow up some summertime dates in the U.K. with a fall trek through North America, supporting her new album, "Invisible Empire//Crescent Moon.

Jimmy Buffett and band extend tour into fall

Jimmy Buffett and his Coral Reefer Band have added a few stops onto their "Songs From St. Somewhere" run of North America.

Report: GM will no longer release monthly production figures

General Motors has announced that it will no longer disclose monthly production figures to automotive data providers. Automotive News reports that GM notified research and data providers IHS Automotive, Automotive News Data Center and Autodata Corp.

First Drive: 2014 Mercedes-Benz CLA45 AMG

Mercedes-Benz has AMG on an impressive growth curve these days, the official name of the effort being Performance 50. By the 50th anniversary of AMG in 2017, the Mercedes performance division will produce 30,000-plus units per year.