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“Deepfake” creators are making disturbingly realistic, computer-generated videos with photos taken from the Web, and ordinary women are suffering the damage.

Popsugar’s Twinning app was leaking everyone’s uploaded photos

Today is the last day Tesla buyers can get a $7,500 tax credit

Investigating Apps interactions with Facebook on Android

Plastic made from seaweed could help fight against pollution

Tech luminaries we lost in 2018

Here’s why telephones and calculators use different numeric keypads

In First, Drones Will Surveil the New Year's Eve Ball Drop in Times Square

Stolen, burned, tossed in the lake: e-scooters face vandals wrath

Why does decentralization matter?

Twitter detects possible state-sponsored activity from China, Saudi Arabia

Nvidia Targeted With Class Action Lawsuits Over Cryptocurrency Crash

Ranji highlights: UP, Puducherry keep quarterfinal hopes alive; Punit Bisht slams triple ton

Something old, something new, and something borrowed - Africa's innovation space in 2018.

A bowling year in Tests, and breaking the ceiling in ODIs

Top stories

The Next Production Revolution

The people who get how Facebook works are also the most likely to leave it - 44% of people aged 18 to 29 said they deleted the Facebook app from their phones in the last year, according to new research from Pew.

This Western Mass. town rejected Comcast and built its own broadband network - The Boston Globe

Ingram, Siddle help Strikers back to winning ways

Samsung Galaxy Tablets Rank as Most Durable for German Users

Seven New Year’s resolutions for Big Tech in 2019

The Worst Hacks of 2018: Marriott, Atlanta, Quora, and More

On Facebook, this year's Top 50 fake news stories generated 22 million engagements. Despite major efforts, this figure was only 7% less than 2017. Prevalent domain cycling is part of problem

Tech-friendly bus startup FlixBus offers riders VR headsets

Researchers develop artificial fingerprints, claiming they could hack into a third of smartphones

Drones Used to Find Toy-Like “Butterfly” Land Mines - Quadcopters with thermal imagery cameras can help detect vicious mini-mines that often kill or maim children

MIT researchers are now 3D printing glass

8 (or similar) inch monitor / display that is a decent resolution (1080p or 1440p) and hopefully 60hz.

UK invests millions in micro-robots able to work in dangerous sites - Devices could be deployed in underground pipe networks, reducing need for roadworks

The Best Tech Quotes of the Year

Ever-improving women's cricket falls short of a quantum leap

New Nissan Electric Race Car, The Leaf Nismo RC Launched!

A year of falling apart for Australia

Mandhana named Cricketer of the Year, Healy wins T20 honour

New York City cops will fly a drone over the New Year’s Eve celebration at Times Square

Perry, Gardner help Sixers consolidate top spot

Rohit to miss New Year Test against Australia

When loss of life is inevitable, autonomous cars must choose who to spare. Machine ethics show a preference for the young and the physically fit.

How Facebook tracks you on Android (even if you don’t have a Facebook account)

Doctors are asking Silicon Valley engineers to spend more time in the hospital before building apps

More of the Black Caps please

Repurposed Amazon Dash Buttons allow users to file complaints about noise from air traffic

Facebook Data Scandals Stoke Criticism That a Privacy Watchdog Too Rarely Bites

China Pushes for Primacy in Space

The year of results, the year of happy journeys

Button offers instant gratification for those plagued by airplane noise

Lawrence Roberts, Who Helped Design Internet’s Precursor, Dies at 81

Offshore, Act Two: New owner repowers 20-year-old wind farm off Swedish coast

Ransomware suspected in cyberattack that crippled major US newspapers

First New Thorium Salt Reactor in 40 Years Comes Online (2017)

China Will Still Go Massively Nuclear but Does Not Want Western Reactor Technology

The world's first no-kill eggs have gone on sale after scientists found a way to determine a chick's sex before it hatches

Bill Gates And Other Billionaires Backing A Nuclear Renaissance | OilPrice.com

Recommendations for a good cheap netbook or laptop.

Amazon will build more Whole Foods stores to expand Prime Now

iPhone XS Max Owner Claims Gadget Exploded While In His Pocket

Sucking carbon dioxide from air is cheaper than scientists thought

Facebook Data Scandals Stoke Criticism That a Privacy Watchdog Too Rarely Bites

Did 2018 usher in a creeping tech dystopia?

Netflix had to create a totally new, rediculously complicated new software for the new choose your own adventure Black Mirror episode 'Bandersnatch'

Facebook Rescinds Ban On Evangelist Franklin Graham Post And Apologizes

In 2018, Google DeepMind Imbued A.I. With Human-Like Sight and Imagination

As China option fades, Bill Gates urges U.S. to take the lead in nuclear power, for the good of the planet

Toshiba's new fast-charging battery could triple the range of electric vehicles

Gauging Interest for a New IoT Device Idea

Can you stand segregation? These researchers are using virtual reality to let hospital staff see through their patients’ eyes | The Star

Book tells the inside story of how Reddit came to be the Internet’s “id”

Larry Roberts, father of ARPANet dies.

Computer virus hits newspapers coast-to-coast

The Very Slow Movie Player shows a film over an entire year

Bill Gates Looking at Thorium

How does the LCD display on an iPhone 6 work?

Mining company says first autonomous freight train network is fully operational

Angelo Mathews ruled out of Brisbane Test

Cyber attack hits U.S. newspaper distribution

Ranji Highlights: Evergreen Wasim Jaffer shines for Vidarbha

Facebook pays $238k to settle lawsuit and will halt political ads in Washington State

Changing to a bigger screen size?

2018 is the year AI got its eyes

How Facebook tracks you on Android (even if you don’t have a Facebook account)

How Facebooks tracks non-users via Android apps

My refurbished IPhone 6s came with service and lte without SIM card, it's been hacked.

Hobart Hurricanes keep unbeaten run intact

How Apps on Android Share Data with Facebook - Report

2018 Test team of the year

In 1993 my agency warned of climate change. In 1995 it was abolished. The US Office of Technology Assessment should be revived – in 2019 the world will need its expertise more than ever

Is nuclear energy the key to saving the planet? A new generation of environmentalists is learning to stop worrying and love atomic power.

Europe to fund bug bounties for 15 open source programs, including VLC, Drupal and Notepad++.

Hobart Hurricanes snap five-match losing streak

Apple and Google can help power the switch to renewable energy: Big tech firms want their global operations to be clean and green. In 2019, their demands will drive the expansion of solar and wind

The pace attack that refuses to give in, and keeps on giving

India in 2018 - Rejoice and regret