The RP’s Weekly Web Gems: The Politics of Tech

A Miami judge has ruled that BitTorrent downloads are protected as anonymous speech. Landmark indeed. [Torrent Freak]

Seagate is forging ahead in the production of hard drives. They have managed to squeeze 1 TB onto a square inch of space. This means that in the near future we could see hard drives as large as 60 TB. [Geek]

Google Chrome briefly became the most used web browser in the world. [Telegraph]

This amazing piece of new tech blows the traditional wheel chair out of the water. [Wimp]

Bad news in military tech – work on a new trillion dollar fighter jet is not going as planned. The jet could need billions in dollars worth of fixes. [Wired]