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The company behind Maker Faire and Make magazine has abruptly shut down

China Summons Tech Giants to Warn Against Cooperating With Trump Ban

Apple’s new sign-in button is built for a post-Cambridge Analytica world - Protection against developers, not hackers

After 40 Years of Searching, Scientists Identify The Key Flaw in Solar Panel Efficiency

India wants to make 40% cabs electric by 2026 to meet climate change goals

Facebook must do some 'deep soul searching' about Mark Zuckerberg's power after a huge shareholder revolt

'I've paid a huge personal cost:' Google walkout organizer resigns over alleged retaliation - Longtime employee who helped organize global protest alleges Google’s response was designed to ‘have a chilling effect’ on growing workplace activism

For two hours, a large chunk of European mobile traffic was rerouted through China

China telecom reroutes European web traffic through PRC, spies on traffic to over 70,000 European websites

At its Core, Apple Is No Longer Innovative

Deepfake-busting apps can spot even a single pixel out of place

NASA will allow private astronauts on the ISS for $11,250-$22,500 a day

Ars Technica Tech reporter charged with soliciting child sex online

Yelp fights to combat an anti-Yelp documentary with Google ads and a domain name

Give up your password or go to jail: Police push legal boundaries to get into cellphones

Germany: Backdoor found in four smartphone models; 20,000 users infected

Stanford engineers make editing video as easy as editing text

Congress Is Killing That Sketchy Provision That Banned the Government from Offering Free Tax Filing Software

India Orders Uber And Rival Ola To Electrify 40% Of Fleets By 2026

Overlooked No More: Alan Turing, Condemned Code Breaker and Computer Visionary

Facebook suspends app pre-installs on Huawei phones

New York is halfway to a new net neutrality bill

Puncture-Proof Tires Revealed by GM and Michelin

Maine governor signs bill banning internet providers from selling consumer data without consent

YouTube’s anti-extremism crackdown targets journalist who documents extremism

Phone companies can block robocalls by default starting today, FCC says - FCC changes robocall rules and urges carriers to step up call blocking.

Dawn of the noisy electric car: EU laws requiring audible warning sounds take effect July 1

The FCC claims killing net neutrality expanded internet access. It didn’t.

Apple Is Still Trying to Sue the Owner of an Independent iPhone Repair Shop - Apple lost its counterfeit case against a Norwegian repair shop owner last year, but the $1 trillion company won't let it go.

This week’s dead Google product is Google Trips

Better Broadband Lowers Unemployment Rates, Study Says - Chattanooga’s community owned and operated fiber network resulted in significant gains in local employment, data suggests.

As Google Ponders Making Ad Blockers Less Useful, Mozilla Ramps Up Tracker Blocking

This History Teacher Had His Educational YouTube Channel Banned For Hosting "Hate Speech"

Microsoft discreetly wiped its massive facial recognition database

DARPA’s New Project Is Investing Millions in Brain-Machine Interface Tech

'Surveillance capitalism': critic urges Toronto to abandon smart city project - Project with Google’s Sidewalk Labs comes under increasing scrutiny amid concerns over privacy and data harvesting

Apple strips clips of WWDC devs booing that $999 monitor stand from the web using copyright claims. Fear not, you can listen again here... YouTube happy to spare iGiant embarrassment but won't take down 'slur' vids

Jeff Bezos controls telerobot hands, calls the experience "Weirdly natural"

Malware spotted doing unspeakable, filthy things to infected Macs – injecting Bing results into Google searches

Tacoma-based Snopes, debunker of fake news, is locked in a nasty legal dispute

Boston Dynamics prepares to launch its first commercial robot: Spot

YouTube finally banned content from neo-Nazis, Holocaust deniers, and Sandy Hook skeptics

Modern Manufacturing Has Made It Nearly Impossible to Spot a Fake Rolex

App makers sue Apple and claim it uses ‘monopoly power’ to charge fees

This Windows Flaw Is So Bad, Even the NSA Is Begging You to Update.

Developers sue Apple over App Store 'monopoly'

IBM accused of pumping staff retirement funds into a tanking stock... IBM's to be exact

'Iron Man' actor Robert Downey Jr. has vowed to use robotics and AI to significantly clean up the Earth in the next decade

Ajit Pai works to cap funding for rural and poor people, gets GOP backing

KLM Airlines wants to help build a more efficient jet with in-wing seating