Audi's proprietary software used a simple method to cheat on emissions tests: to activate a special low-emission gearshifting mode until the first time the car made a turn.

This is proprietary software at work. You can't trust a proprietary program with control of anything.

Snopes.com continues its fact-checking service, but our political system no longer rejects lies.

The fake story about Ted Cruz and the ban on masturbation is funny because it is believable. It goes just a little beyond the sort of thing religious conservatives would really advocate.

A lockdown in prison automatically creates tension. As a method to deal with tension among prisoners, it defeats itself if it is used very much.

Amazon pressures its "self-employed" delivery drivers to drive without seat belts; they aren't given time to go to the toilet so they have to piss and defecate in the car.

This is perhaps not as bad for the individual as being unemployed, which is what they will become when Amazon gets driverless delivery vans. But that does not make it acceptable.

Sanders will continue the campaign to redirect Americans' anger at plutocracy into a movement that will honestly oppose it.