Seriously, many of these news sites are publishing their content via RSS (News Corp. sites in particular). I assume that they will stop foisting their content on the interwebs, before unleashing the copyright flying monkeys.
Fifteen (!) years ago, I took a UC Extension class on Neural Networks taught by Stanford professor David Stork. He had developed a lip-reading system for communication in noisy environments, such as an airplane-repair facility. If you could do it 15 years ago with workstation-class desktops, I suppose you could do it with a smartphone today.
Terrorists stage a high-profile robbery to incite a police chase, which leads to the use of one of these EMP things, aimed at Mae West. Th' InterTubes go dark, civilization collapses.
2.4 statute miles of surgical tubing at Yale U. = 1 I.V.League
