Your definition of "significant" seems to be pretty low-bar, especially when talking about the human species as a whole - as opposed to, say, a small community in one of the least populated states of a single country.

We are? Name one.

It's a good thing that the prisoners rights were respected, regardless of the problem being an IT one at root.
It's a bad thing that an IT problem is causing cops to be unable to file paperwork that would result in proper processing of prisoners

Web browser maker decides to create a disqus competitor, instead of working on their web browser.

Speaking as someone in a country that *does* offer equal parental leave - it doesn't. Men are less likely to take advantage of parental leave than women, even if it is available. Sure, a week or two around the birth (like I did when my daughter was born), but many women take much longer.

I'm not sure they can do that. I think subpoenas need to have a "target" - you can subpoena Fred Smith for any emails he sent; you can subpoena John Doe for any emails sent, and fill in the correct name when you've been able to determine who it is, but you can't subpoena "anyone who sent emails to this address", because you have no way to serve such a subpoena.

Google had better reject this order, or it's all downhill from here.

Germany orders Google to remove all mentions of Nazis. Saudi Arabia orders Google to remove all mentions of alcohol and extra-marital sex. The US orders Google to remove all mentions of the leaks published by Snowden/Manning/Assange.

How long until nothing is left, when every country in the world can expunge whatever they don't like?

Unicode is supposed to be universal, and it has more than enough codepoints to spare - why is there a problem adding it? I'm sure having it in a standard encoding would prove useful to anyone who is trying to translate Linear A, or to archeologists/historians looking to digitize fragments we do have, etc.

If I'd had a bunch of high-pressure systems coming into my office asking for treatment for precipitation, I might.

I'm not a meteorologist, but I can still tell you if it's raining.

Observation != analysis.

Emphasis added. Regardless of that, Apple could have started work on the iPad mini after Google announced (rather than released) their tablet, and it would have still been reactionary.

Right - they never lodged charges, but they stole his stuff, and read his private papers anyway. That's sorta the whole point.

Actually, in the olden days, they'd likely be the ones doing the rounding, locking and burning.

Historically, obesity was only a problem for the very well off.

Love it or hate it, it still doesn't react to it the same way wood does.

From the first link:
“Our research may lead to a new construction material that can be used anywhere where you have components based on glass fibers"

From the second link:
"The team from the institute's Wallenberg Wood Science Center claim that the new fiber could be used as a biodegradable replacement for many filament materials made today from imperishable substances such as fiberglass, plastic, and metal."

Literacy much?