Some of the exciting and some of the depressing from the past week.The major labels are taking LimeWire to court in a trial scheduled to begin May 2, claiming a a $55 billion decline in record industry revenue over the last decade due to peer-to-peer filesharing. No word yet on how they’ll finger the MP3 format or the Internet or kids.A U.S. vector biologist appears to have accidentally written virological history simply by having sex with his wife after returning from a field trip to Senegal. A study just released in Emerging Infectious Diseases suggests that the researcher, Brian Foy of Colorado State University in Fort Collins, passed to his wife the Zika virus, an obscure pathogen that causes joint pains and extreme fatigue. If so, it would be the first documented case of sexual transmission of an insect-borne disease.But Google, Yahoo and others are fighting back. Next up: the Australian government and the RepublicansMore offers of eternal love and great business deals headed for everyone’s inboxes.Because only men are allowed to waste precious hours doing something stupid like that.Yeah but it also makes sex happen nerdier:Even in the heat of passion, some people just can’t get enough of their digital devices, the survey found. When a call or text comes in during sex, 5 percent of respondents said they glance to see who is calling and 1 percent say they stop to answer the phone.Was this why pay walls were invented?Submit your own Ones or Zeros to Motherboard with the tags “one” or “zero”, and see more here.
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