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The U.S. Is Purging Chinese Cancer Researchers From Top Institutions

A new tool makes it harder for factory farms to hide their waste

Inside Raspberry Pi's First Brick and Mortar Store

Hong Kong's digital battle: tech that helped protesters now used against them - Wary of being tracked and targeted like activists inside China, protesters are keeping a low profile online

Researchers take two steps toward green fuel. Scientists at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT) , Japan, has developed a two-step method to more efficiently break down carbohydrates into their single sugar components, a critical process in producing green fuel.

Volvo Trucks' cabin-less self-driving hauler takes on its first job

Hundreds of active and former police officers are part of extremist Facebook groups

ThinkGeek.com is shutting down and that’s a damn shame

Congress Should Pass the Protecting Data at the Border Act

Cellebrite Now Says It Can Unlock Any iPhone for Cops

Adobe trained AI to detect facial manipulation in Photoshop

Content Moderation Is Impossible: You Can't Expect Moderators To Understand Satire Or Irony

Study finds that a GPS outage would cost $1 billion per day - 90 percent of the technology's financial impact has come since just 2010.

Porn troll Paul Hansmeier gets 14 years for fraud and perjury - Judge blasts Hansmeier for "almost incalculable" harms to justice.

Google AMP URLs not letting searchers click through to main site

In Court, Facebook Blames Users for Destroying Their Own Right to Privacy

AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile Hit With FCC Complaint Over Sale of Phone Location Data - The Open Technology Institute, Free Press, and the Georgetown Law Center on Privacy & Technology filed the complaint Friday after multiple Motherboard and New York Times investigations.

Huawei apparently decides it needs more bad press, puts ads on phone lock screens

House Armed Services Committee votes to create a U.S. Space Corps

NASA estimates it will need $20 billion to $30 billion for Moon landing, administrator says

Twitter removes nearly 4,800 accounts linked to Iranian government

FCC Commissioners Now Literal Poster Boys for Big Telecom

LaLiga’s app listened in on fans to catch bars illegally streaming soccer

Move Over, Impossible Burger: Lab-Grown Meat Will Overtake Plants by 2040

Ajit Pai says NOAA and NASA are wrong about 5G harming weather forecasts | Pai tells Congress that NOAA warnings are based on bad data.

Google Stadia Is About To Show Everyone Why Broadband Usage Caps Are Bullshit

Credit Scores Could Soon Get Even Creepier and More Biased - Credit scores based on AI and non-traditional data such as your social media profile could usher in a whole new way for banks to discriminate.

Elon Musk says Tesla has a design ready for a James Bond-style submarine car

Laser Destroys Cancer Cells Circulating in the Blood

Huawei Started Serving Ads on Phone Lock Screens Without Asking Users' Permission

Telegram founder claims China hacked the app to disrupt Hong Kong protesters.

The Saudi government is hunting down women who flee the country by tracking the IMEI number on their cellphones

Student Uses Snapchat's 'Gender Switch' Filter to Nab Cop Allegedly Looking to Hook Up With Teen Girl: Police

Pinterest bans anti-abortion group Live Action.

Facebook emails seem to show Zuckerberg knew of privacy issues, report claims

Details of Justice Department Efforts To Break Encryption of Facebook Messenger Must Be Made Public, EFF Tells Court

The U.S. Government Is Utterly Inept at Keeping Your Data Secure

The FCC said repealing net-neutrality rules would help consumers: It hasn’t

Google Says It Won't Kill Ad Blockers. Ad Blockers Disagree

Saudi Arabia tracks runaway women by cell phone IMEI number

Advertising as a major source of human dissatisfaction: Cross-national evidence on one million Europeans

America's renewable energy capacity is now greater than coal

Research moves closer to brain-machine interface autonomy. Findings could help seamlessly integrate prosthetics.

Ten U.S. states sue to stop Sprint-T-Mobile deal, saying consumers will be hurt

Hydrogen Fueling Station Explodes: Toyota & Hyundai Halt Fuel Cell Car Sales

Small Idaho City Shows The Benefits Of Open Access Broadband Networks

A Top Voting-Machine Firm Calls for Paper Ballots

Pro net neutrality advocates take on US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell

Tesla says solar roof is on its third iteration, currently installing in 8 states

La Liga app spied on users through their phone microphones to fight illegal football broadcasting. It used an algorithm to identify whether the person was watching a football game from the recording and compared that with their location to see if the bar owner had paid for a licence to show the game