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Once Again, Sharing Streaming Passwords Is Not 'Piracy' Or 'Freeloading'

Influential Democrat asks Amazon to explain why it promotes vaccine misinformation: ‘Every online platform, including Amazon, must act responsibly.’

How 'Super Mario Bros.' became the most expensive game ever sold

Elon Musk sent a $100K Tesla Roadster to space a year ago. It has now traveled farther than any other car in history.

Google refuses to remove Saudi govt app that tracks women

Facebook facing 10 GDPR investigations in Ireland

Data Privacy Legislation Is Coming for Big Tech in the U.S.

Forget growing weed—make yeast spit out CBD and THC instead

Correction: Last month, we called Zuckerberg a moron. We apologize. In fact, he and Facebook are a fscking disgrace

Facebook is globally lobbying against data privacy laws

Facebook, Twitter, and Google still aren’t doing enough about disinformation, EU says

SpaceX just successfully launched the first commercial spaceship made for NASA astronauts

Chinese scientists create injectable nanoparticles that enable night vision

Kissinger warns of dangers of AI at MIT, as students protest his presence

Canada gets closer to a right to repair law

Schiff presses Amazon over anti-vaccination products

Comcast set mobile pins to “0000,” helping attackers steal phone numbers

Anti-vaxxers are the newest threat in 'Plague Inc.'

Massive Database Leak Gives Us a Window into China’s Digital Surveillance State

China banned 23 million people with poor social credit from transportation in 2018

Scientists Just Pulled CO2 From Air And Turned It Into Coal

Energizer phone has 50 days of battery life

19 year old hacker makes over $1,000,000 finding software vulnerabilities

Amazon’s latest program to curb emissions? One delivery day per house, per week

Brit ISPs must now offer customers a minimum speed guarantee

5G will be crazy fast, but it'll be worthless without unlimited data

1 in 5 corporations say China has stolen their IP within the last year: CNBC CFO survey

'Thunderclap' security flaw in Thunderbolt spec could compromise USB-C and DisplayPort | Computing

Google, Facebook, Twitter fail to live up to fake news pledge

$35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has defended the company's $480m contract to supply HoloLens-for-war headsets to the US Army

Epic Games sued over ‘predatory’ Llama loot boxes

YouTube's pedo problem is so bad, it just switched off comments on millions of vids of small kids to stem the tide of vileness

Trolls are lying about child porn to try to get YouTube channels taken down

Tesla will close most of its stores and only sell cars online.

A major chemical company is building roads made of recycled plastic. They've already stopped 220,000 pounds of waste from ending up in landfills.

TikTok has been illegally collecting children’s data.

Samsung's folding screen tech has been stolen and sold to China

iPhone and Android hacking tool used by FBI and DHS on sale on eBay for as little as $100

Facebook and Google will be punished with giant fines in the UK if they fail to rid their platforms of toxic content

Researchers genetically modify yeast to ‘brew’ THC and CBD

Cryptocurrency wallet caught sending user passwords to Google's spellchecker

Samsung is Bloating Everything with McAfee—Even Smart TVs

Anti-vaxx 'mobs': doctors face harassment campaigns on Facebook - Medical experts who counter misinformation are weathering coordinated attacks. Now some are fighting back

America’s Cities Are Running on Software From the ’80s

‘Gene-edited babies’ is one of the most censored topics on Chinese social media.

Dow Jones’ watchlist of 2.4 million high-risk individuals has leaked

Ridley Scott’s Alien will finally be released in 4K HDR for its 40th anniversary

TikTok fined $5.7 million by FTC over alleged children’s privacy law violations

How Mozilla moved fast to block Facebook and other privacy invaders from your web browser