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Agloe, N.Y., is not a town in any real sense. Instead, it's among a number of fakes that mapmakers planted to foil plagiarists. It inspired John Green to write his book (and now movie) Paper Towns.

Wikipedia is blocking visitors from its English-language articles and Google has blacked out the logo on its home page as they join other sites in protesting legislation pending in Congress that's aimed at shutting down sites that share pirated movies and other content.

Already, researcher Stuart Russell says, sentry robots in South Korea "can spot and track a human being for a distance of two miles – and can very accurately kill that person."

On Tuesday, the California Department of Motor Vehicles held a public hearing to solicit ideas on how to integrate driverless cars — sometimes called "autonomous vehicles" — onto public roads.

The aid industry focuses on issues about women and is dominated by female staffers. So why are they often absent in high-level public conversations?

Steve Jobs was said to be a low-tech parent, and so are others in the tech industry. That means they're often putting strict limits on family use of the very gadgets and software they're developing.

It's Friday, which means we're rounding up the tech headlines and our NPR coverage of technology and culture this week.

Cities have plenty of reasons to care about how much food is being produced within their limits - especially now that community and guerilla gardeners are taking over vacant urban lots across the country. But most cities can only guess at where exactly crops are growing.

The lawsuit alleges that the streaming music service fails to properly compensate artists for the right to reproduce or distribute recordings. It's the latest in the ongoing debate over streaming.

Capital Public Radio's Lesley McClurg talks to Marcos, who entered the country illegally and worked his way up in a restaurant, and one of the owners of the restaurant he works for.