The panel communicates wirelessly with the outlets, turning appliances off or on when instructed, or suggesting ways to change energy use in the house, he said.
Turquoise outlets, turned on and off by motion detectors, are for plugging in electronics that sap power when off, like phone chargers.
News outlets turned back to the BP oil spill and the Pennsylvania newlyweds who were born on the same day in the same hospital.
Four years ago, as the country was wrestling with a federal-budget crisis, conservative news outlets turned their attention, once again, to the topic of wasteful government spending.
But only a few media outlets turned down the versions with the double entendre, Mr. Rahner said, adding that "at the majority, there was not even a debate" over their acceptability.
But it seems that there are just too many other media outlets turning up this story at the moment for it not to have validity.
When the National Security Agency made headlines this summer, media outlets turned to arguably the most knowledgeable journalist on the secret spy organization, James Bamford.
I've definitely been guilty of this, and I've also been to coffee shops that try to fight back by removing outlets, turning off their Wi-Fi or outlawing laptops on certain tables.
But with more and more news outlets turning to technology to crank out stories, one has to wonder what the human journalist is to make of it all.
Hundreds of journalists, including many from foreign outlets, turned up to watch arguably the most famous woman in the world sit down for low-key encounters with local business owners in Iowa.
Meanwhile, police raided and seized the critical and influential Koza-Ipek and Zaman media groups, within the last 8 months, terminating some of its outlets, turning some others pro-government overnight after appointing trustees over them, firing more than 1.500 journalists.
