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A conference on online privacy in Pakistan looks at the impact of recent legislation. Nighat Dad of the Digital Rights Foundation discusses criticisms that the new laws threaten freedom of speech.

Airway-on-a-Chip
Researchers have developed an airway-on-a-microchip that supports living small-airway-lining cells from normal or diseased human lungs and a robotic instrument that "breathes" cigarette smoke in and out over these chips. Click talks to Professor Donald Ingber from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University.

Fusing Robotics With Textiles
Make:Shift is a conference by the UK鈥檚 Craft Council that has featured pioneering makers, scientists and technologists presenting how the distinctive characteristics of craft are enabling innovation in a number of industries. Click talks to Annie Warburton, Creative Director of Crafts Council and the artist Karina Thompson about fusing robotics and textiles.

FarmCrowdy
FarmCrowdy is Nigeria鈥檚 first online platform to unite investors with millions of small farmers in the country and to release the potential of millions of acres on unutilised arable land. Click talks to the CEO Onyeka Akumah.

(Photo caption: Two Pakistani women walks past as an announcement of 'No Internet' pasted on a wall outside an internet caf茅 in Islamabad 漏 Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images)

Producer: Colin Grant