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Unidentified satellites reveal the need for better space tracking

'Sugar daddy' website owner charged with debauchery in Belgium

Beach club owner rips into freeloading Instagram 'influencers'

Hackers beat university cyber-defences in two hours

Screen time -- even before bed -- has little impact on teen well-being

Netflix confirms it killed AirPlay support, won’t let you beam shows to Apple TVs anymore

China is reportedly trialing attention-detecting bands in schools

Facebook Won't Stop Being Sketchy, and More Security News This Week

Remember when Netflix used to be a DVD-by-mail company? Well, for 2.7 million subscribers in the US, it still is

North Carolina Bill would allow "absentee days" for students participating in Robot Competitions. Similar to Football, Basketball, Baseball, Track and Soccer.

Former Senate staffer admits to doxxing five senators on Wikipedia

Ironically, Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To Piracy

Elon Musk: Self-driving Teslas are going to make their owners money by competing with Uber, Lyft

Google patches ads into Android TV home screens without warning: ‘The purpose is to help you discover new apps and contents for your TV’

Microsoft found a Huawei driver that opens systems to attack

How Immigration Scammers Pose as ICE to Steal From Terrified Victims, as Revealed by Twitch Streamer

Man Pleads Guilty to Charges of Stealing Senate Information, Illegally Posting Restricted Personal Information of U.S. Senators on Website

Tenants worry smart-home tech could be abused by landlords

The golden age of YouTube is over

AT&T lied to investors to hide failure of DirecTV online service, lawsuit says.

Airbnb guest found hidden surveillance camera by scanning Wi-Fi network

EU accuses BMW, Daimler, and VW of collusion on emissions tech

Why there’s so little left of the early internet

Gov. Polis is about to sign a Colorado net neutrality bill — one with some serious teeth: Colorado's “open internet” bill would punish internet-providing violators by taking their grant money away

Amazon shoppers misled by 'bundled' star-ratings and reviews - Guardian study finds inferior items appear highly praised, making ratings worthless

When Microsoft's eBook store closes, your books will disappear too

Japan just shot a copper cannonball at an asteroid

Hacker group has been hijacking DNS traffic on D-Link routers for three months

Amazon plans to launch over 3,000 satellites to offer broadband internet

Mackenzie Bezos To Become World's 4th Richest Woman In Divorce Settlement

Toyota will share its patented hybrid vehicle tech for free

Google dissolves AI ethics board just one week after forming it

Android TV update puts home-screen ads on multi-thousand-dollar Sony Smart TVs

The Internet Archive has uploaded 450,000 songs collected before Myspace’s massive data loss

House Democrats refuse to weaken net neutrality bill, defeat GOP amendments - House Commerce Committee voted to reverse Ajit Pai's net neutrality repeal.

IBM's AI can predict which employee will quit with 95% accuracy

Family discovers hidden camera livestreaming in Airbnb

Instagram, Youtube and Facebook could face fines (and jail time) under new Australian laws

Machine learning is making pesto even more delicious - Researchers at MIT have used AI to improve the flavor of basil. It’s part of a trend that is seeing artificial intelligence revolutionize farming.

Your Tesla can now change lanes without asking permission - Autopilot is feeling more and more like the future

Ex-Mozilla CTO: US border cops demanded I unlock my phone, laptop at SF airport – and I'm an American citizen - Techie says he was grilled for three hours after refusing to let agents search his devices

MIT cuts ties with Huawei in broadening move by elite universities to distance themselves from Chinese companies

Internet Archive uploads 1.3 Terabytes of lost MySpace music

Millions of Facebook Records Found on Amazon S3 Buckets

Huawei laptop 'backdoor' flaw raises concerns

Ethiopian Air pilots turned off 737 MAX anti-stall system. Then it turned on again

Net Neutrality Bill Passes Crucial Committee Vote

HAPPENING NOW: A key House committee is voting on net neutrality

Linus Torvalds says Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram are 'a disease'

One of the world's most important programmers, Linus Torvalds, says Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram are 'a disease'