Is Pay-to-Comment the Future?

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An online magazine in the US is introducing pay-to-comment on its articles. Yair Rosenberg is a journalist at Tablet and says they hope the move will help improve the quality of the discussions. Samsung warns some of its televisions are compromising the privacy of your living room - but could your car's electronics be hacked for personal information too? Will Knight from MIT Technology Review in Boston discusses the rise of 'Orwellian' technologies. Executives and investors from the mining world are gathering in Cape Town for the Mining Indaba - our South African business reporter Matthew Davies explains why it's such an important event. Fancy a home made from straw? In England you can now get a mortgage to pay for it. Ben Law is a woodsman and eco-builder and tells us how his own straw home is holding up, a decade after he built it. The BBC's Rahul Tandon joins us from Kolkata to round up the stories making the news in India. And Lucy Kellaway of the Financial Times on praising the old boss - but not, please, on social media. Joining Fergus Nicoll are David Kuo of the Motley Fool in Singapore and Jessica Beinecke founder of Crazy Fresh Chinese in New York.