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NASA wants to send gear to the moon to prep for future human missions and permanent outpost before the end of 2019, including a spaceship navigation beacon, radiation monitor, and soil analyzer. One step at a time, people.

Virgin Galactic successfully launches first passenger past edge of space

PepsiCo Is 'Relentlessly Automating' Its Workforce And It's Even More Dystopian Than It Sounds

Microsoft Employees Demand Company End $480 Million Contract With US Army

Microsoft Workers Say the Company Is War Profiteering, and They’ve Timed Their Protest to Hurt

YouTube removes ads from anti-vaccination video channels

Confidential emails sent by Facebook executives leaked online - Communications between senior figures, including Mark Zuckerberg, shed new light on data use

Microsoft workers protest $480m HoloLens military deal: 'We did not sign up to develop weapons'

NASA plans to launch submarine to study depths of the sea

Facebook planned to spy on Android phone users, internal emails reveal

IKEA announces plans to release air purifying curtains

iOS apps sending private data to facebook

Microsoft workers are demanding the company cancel its $480 million contract with the US military

Artificially Intelligent Players Invent Non-Verbal “Languages” to Win Card Games

'We did not sign up to develop weapons': Microsoft workers protest $480m HoloLens military deal

Mark Zuckerberg Promised A Clear History Tool Almost A Year Ago. Where Is It?

Apps are reportedly telling Facebook how much users weigh and when they're menstruating

A third of all Chrome extensions request access to user data on any site - Eighty-five percent of all Chrome extensions don't have a privacy policy.

Apple is deliberately blocking Linux users from managing their Apple ID

Cord Cutting Hits Another Record With More Bad News For Cable - Over 850,000 pay TV customers dropped service in the fourth quarter, which could be a new record.

YouTube just demonetized anti-vax channels.

Mark Zuckerberg Promised A Clear History Tool Almost A Year Ago. Where Is It?

Facebook reportedly gets deeply personal info from some apps, like ovulation times and heart rate

Facebook Ups Surveillance Of Users To Keep Tabs On People Who Don't Like Facebook

Ajit Pai's FCC insists that ignoring consumers and gutting oversight of major ISPs dramatically boosted network investment. Reality suggests something else entirely.

Japanese spacecraft successfully touches down on an asteroid, grabbing a sample of dust

Samsung TV update has broken functionality of samsung soundbars

Are we on the road to civilisation collapse?

Facebook decided which users are interested in Nazis — and let advertisers target them directly

Facebook will shut down its spyware VPN app Onavo

Uber data used to identify accomplices in staged Jussie Smollett attack, police say

As fallout over pedophilia content on YouTube continues, AT&T and Hasbro pull all advertisements

Right to repair legislation is officially being considered in Canada.

Facebook decided which users are interested in Nazis — and let advertisers target them directly

Nike’s self-lacing sneakers turn into bricks after faulty firmware update

'He's learned nothing': Zuckerberg floats crowdsourcing Facebook fact-checks

'Illegal Boondoggle': US Government Rebuked for Giving 1,400 Private Companies Access to Dubious Terrorism Watchlist

Apple's stubborn refusal to make a cheap iPhone resulted in its biggest sales decline in 3 years

WinRAR patches 19-year-old security vulnerability that put millions at risk

Sen. Warner blasts Google for hidden Nest microphone: Federal agencies and Congress 'must have hearings to shine a light on the dark underbelly of the digital economy'

Industry Claims That Cord Cutting Would Be A Fad Aren't Looking So Hot

Android users can now stop Facebook from tracking their location

Trump calls for 6G cellular technology, because why the heck not

Nike’s self-lacing smart sneakers malfunction days after release

Facebook Is an 'Innovator in Privacy,' Says Guy Who Runs Facebook

Ajit Pai says broadband access is soaring, and that he’s the one to thank - Pai's FCC takes credit for new broadband, but progress was similar in Obama era.

Vox lawyers briefly censored YouTubers who mocked The Verge’s bad PC build advice

Florida inmate says prison sold him $569 of music, then took it away

Advertisers Boycott YouTube After Pedophiles Swarm Comments on Videos of Children

Nestle, Disney Pull YouTube Ads, Joining Furor Over Child Videos