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Digital technology is transforming manufacturing, making it leaner and smarter—and raising the prospect of an American industrial renaissance.

You’ve probably never thought about the electricity consumed by those Google searches, Facebook updates and all the other things you do online.

Maybe you should start thinking about it.

The NSA can’t capture everything that crosses the Internet—but doesn’t need to.

A man has been warned after he dialled 999 to complain about a prostitute’s looks after meeting her. West Midlands Police said they were contacted by the caller who said he “wished to report her for breaching the Sale of Goods Act”. The force said the call was received at about 19:30 BST on Tuesday complaining that the woman was not as attractive as she had claimed. Officers have now sent the man a letter warning him about wasting police time. West Midlands Police said the man had claimed he met the woman in a hotel car park. “The caller claimed that the woman had made out she was better looking than she actually was and he wished to report her for breaching the Sale of Goods Act,” a spokesperson for the force said.