I especially like the part about sensors harvesting power from "the ambient radio power from television , FM radio and WiFi networks. Props to Tesla..."

"The Knesset on Monday adopted a bill establishing a biometric database in Israel, which will eventually lead to the replacement of regular identification with electronic IDs. Forty Mks supported the bill, 11 opposed it, and three abstained."

"Researchers have devised a way to write memories onto the brains of flies, revealing which brain cells are involved in making bad memories...They modified the neurons by adding a sort of trigger, or receptor, to each one. This receptor was activated by a chemical called ATP."