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Best Buy embarks on packaging diet to deal with glut of cardboard boxes

Electric powered planes planned to be in commercial service by 2022

Amazon gets U.S. patent to use delivery drones for surveillance service

Walmart uses AI cameras to spot thieves - US supermarket giant Walmart has confirmed it uses image recognition cameras at checkouts to detect theft

Bill Gates and Big Oil back this company that’s trying to solve climate change by sucking CO2 out of the air

Norway Announces Plan To Cut Emissions From Ships 50% By 2030

X-Prize winner: Children are not a product - The winner of Elon Musk's global learning X-Prize award says children should not become the "product" of large data-gathering companies.

Amazon gets U.S. patent to use delivery drones for surveillance service

Google’s immense power threatens the open Internet

Bitcoin rises above $10,000 for the first time in a year

Report: Intel will cut desktop CPU prices by 10-15% as Ryzen 3000 draws near

Prisons Are Banning Books That Teach Prisoners How to Code - Oregon prisons have banned dozens of books about technology and programming, like 'Microsoft Excel 2016 for Dummies,' citing security reasons. The state isn't alone.

Google Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time to switch.

AI Can Now Detect Deepfakes by Looking for Weird Facial Movements - Machines can now look for visual inconsistencies to identify AI-generated dupes, a lot like humans do.

New Bill Prohibits Phone Companies from Charging Customers to Ban Robocalls

Discovery of a “Holy Grail” with the invention of universal computer memory

Amazon adds 15 planes, eyes 70-aircraft fleet by 2021

Facebook removed from S&P list of ethical companies after data scandals

Google says it’s done making tablets and cancels two unreleased products

Steelworkers file labor charges against Tesla Buffalo

At House hearing, witnesses for Trump admin defend fuel-economy rollback

Driverless cars are going to disrupt the airline industry

Alarming and unnecessary: Facebook’s new cryptocurrency must be resisted - The tech giant has big ambitions for its digital currency Libra. Privacy and regulation are just the start of the problems

A Florida city paid a $600,000 bitcoin ransom to hackers who took over its computers — and it's a massive alarm bell for the rest of the US

Philips Hue company announces lights that can beam data at 250 Mbps

Facebook usage has collapsed since scandals, data shows

Tim Cook: 'If you’ve built a chaos factory, you can’t dodge responsibility for the chaos' - Apple CEO Tim Cook called on Silicon Valley to take responsibility for the damage it has caused in a recent commencement speech at Stanford

Scientific Research Shouldn't Sit behind a Paywall - The public pays taxes to support research; they should be able to access the results

Hospitals are being suffocated by robocalls

Ajit Pai Is Still Withholding Facts About Location-Data Abuse From Fellow Commissioners

Starry aims to bring its $50, 200Mbps broadband to 25 more US states

Facebook moderators break their NDAs to expose desperate working conditions

Ubuntu to kill i386 support starting in 19.10: yes, this means support for running old 32bit binaries, not just 32bit OS installs!

The US government has leaked the names of child abuse victims by failing to hide Facebook account IDs in court documents

The Reasons why DJI isn't Releasing a Flagship Drone in 2019

Delicious irony: Hacked medical debt collector AMCA files for bankruptcy protection from debt collectors - The tables are turned, database tables that is

Should big tech companies be made to pay the tax they owe?

In 2013 it cost $330,000 to grow a hamburger in the lab. They're soon expected to sell for $11.

Many health and wellness apps haven't done research to back up claims

Google invests $1 billion to ease housing shortage near California headquarters

Supreme Court Signals Loud And Clear That Social Media Sites Are Not Public Forums That Have To Allow All Speech

“The Hunger Games for cities” – inside the Amazon HQ2 bid process How America prostrated itself before one of America’s largest corporations – and how New York took a stand.

Robocalls are overwhelming hospitals and patients, threatening a new kind of health crisis

Ireland to ban new petrol and diesel vehicles from 2030

Samsung TVs should be regularly virus-checked, the company says

Samsung Deletes Frightening Tweet Warning That Its Smart TVs Can Get Viruses

Trump's order to trim science advisory panels sparks outrage

Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t post about his kids on social media — and nor should we

The CIA Spied on People Through Their Smart TVs, Leaked Documents Reveal

Israeli tech company says it can break into all iPhones ever made, some Androids