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Get yourself cybersecure for 2020 | Technology

Calif. vastly expands digital privacy. Will people use it?

California Wanted to Protect Uber Drivers. Now It May Hurt Freelancers.

Setup grounding issue

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Elon Musk says SpaceX hopes to launch its revolutionary rocket system that could eventually put people on Mars within '2 to 3 months'

Apple escalates legal fight with iOS virtualization tool provider Corellium

Brazil fines Facebook $1.6 million for improper sharing of user data

Tuvalu is a tiny island nation of 11,000 people. It’s cashing in thanks to Twitch.

Iridium would pay to deorbit its 30 defunct satellites — for the right price

Sex Toy an Electronics Show Award Finalist After Controversy

Retailers grapple with $100bn returns problem - Online purchases in the US almost three times more likely to be sent back

UN special rapporteur on torture condemns continued incarceration of Chelsea Manning as thousands call for her release

Police Departments Are Using Swatting Registries To Help Protect Swatting Targets From Police Officers

Biden to Coal Miners: Learn to Code

Wyze: Data Leak Exposes 2.4 Million Customers

Uber and Postmates File Suit to Block California Freelancer Law

Tesla’s New Lithium-Ion Patent Brings Company Closer to Promised 1 Million-Mile Battery

Why does it seem like when a new phone comes out, it's camera is amazing, but as soon as the next phone comes out next year, suddenly the quality goes down in the comparison photos to the new phone that just came out?

As robots take over warehousing, workers pushed to adapt

Microsoft says North Korea-linked hackers stole sensitive information

Half of U.S. Homes Now Stream Video Daily - Mean time spent online for homes with internet service nearly doubled to 3.7 hours over the last decade, Leichtman Research Group reports

NIST Study Of 189 Facial Recognition Algorithms Finds Minorities Are Misidentified Almost 100 Times More Often Than White Men

We picked the 10 most-influential technologies of the decade. It isn’t all bad.

Intel at CES to spring laptop cooling news?

Graphics tablet flooded in water

Hunting the missing millions from collapsed cryptocurrency - A Russian computer programmer involved in the collapse of a big cryptocurrency exchange says he was tricked into handing over its entire assets to fraudsters posing as FSB agents, according to documents obtained by BBC Russian.

California's groundbreaking privacy law takes effect in January. What does it do?

Tesla delivers its first 'Made in China' cars

Chinese scientists jailed over 'world's first gene-edited babies.'

Watch these hackers crack an ATM in minutes

Is Facilities Management ready for the next decade?

Secretive energy startup backed by Bill Gates achieves solar breakthrough

WhatsApp support will end for Windows phones

Need help finding a monitor

Science Under Attack: How Trump Is Sidelining Researchers and Their Work

NYU doctor Joseph Wiesel claims Apple used his patented heartbeat-monitoring tech without permission in lawsuit

He Jiankui, Chinese scientist who edited babies' genes, jailed for three years

Indian tech startups raised a record $14.5B in 2019

Crisis Looms in Antibiotics as Drug Makers Go Bankrupt

Forecasting the future isn't as easy as it looks - As 2020 approaches, the first 60-mile hyperloop, flying cars and $1m Bitcoin remain distant dreams

Up to Speed? Time, money, maps and the push for 100% broadband in rural Colorado

36C3: Open Source Is Insufficient To Solve Trust Problems In Hardware

‘Facebook is the new cigarettes for our society,’ Marc Benioff says, calling for regulation

Electric vehicles are supposed to be green, but the truth is a bit murkier

How much of a genius-level move was using binary space partitioning in Doom?

U.S. companies are forcing workers to train their own foreign replacements

5G Is Going To Screw Up Weather Forecasts, Meteorologists Warn

Flash Forest aims to use drones to plant a billion trees by 2028

Kenya installs the first solar plant that transforms Ocean water into drinking water

RIP! All the tech that died in 2019

Non-smokers and teens take up vaping: study blames ads

AI puts final notes on Beethoven's Tenth Symphony

Tidal forces carry the mathematical signature of gravitational waves

Air Taxis: How will they work

We've spent the decade letting our tech define us. It's out of control - Technology has grown from some devices and platforms we use to an entire environment in which we function

The smartphone tracking industry has been rumbled. Now we must act - Shadowy firms collect detailed data on where we go and who we meet through our apps. Yet where is the protest that would fuel change?

China and Twitter: The year Chinese diplomacy went social - It's fair to say Beijing's diplomatic speech is not known for its spontaneity.

What Does California’s New Data Privacy Law Mean? Nobody Agrees

What are some upcoming tech innovations or companies that in your opinion will see substantial growth over the next few years?

Ookla’s Speedtest begins rolling out new mobile VPN in Android app

Question about wallpapers for windows 10

Samsung's newest experiments include hands-free typing and a scalp scanner

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YouTube actually steers people away from radical videos, researchers say

Even amid the affluence of tech capital in Silicon Valley, local news struggles

This wearable vest grows a self-sustaining garden watered by your own urine

Phones should be able to hide an active 911 call and 911 calls from your call history

The One-Traffic-Light Town with Some of the Fastest Internet in the U.S.

When Chinese hackers declared war on the rest of us

I just read Facebook’s California Consumer Privacy Act statement that goes into effect as of 1/1/2020

The World's First Working Protosaber is Here - NERDBOT

Samsung TV spying on users by taking screenshots of their TVs and uploading them to Samsung for “automatic content recognition (ACR)”

Volkswagen to hit 1m electric cars milestone two years early - Carmaker says it expects to reach 1m by end of 2023 and 1.5m by end of 2025

A brutal year: how the 'techlash' caught up with Facebook, Google and Amazon - Privacy scandals and antitrust issues dogged social media giants and the online retailer saw a rise in employee organizing

Cloudflare Removes Warrant Canary: Thoughtful Post Says It Can No Longer Say It Hasn't Removed A Site Due To Political Pressure

California mulls electric-car requirement for ride shares

After France, Italy approves digital tax on tech giants

How NIST Tested Facial Recognition Algorithms for Racial Bias - Some algorithms were up to 100 times better at identifying white faces

Under Trump, science isn’t dead. Feds’ new focus includes AI, quantum computing.

Huawei received £57bn in aid from China to undercut rivals

Two years of data reveal what people on Reddit are most worried about: Redditors' worries reveal some common — and unexpected — themes.

Robot ROV cleans large vessels in Vietnam. Enjoy the newest marine services technology.

For those of you who deleted social media (besides Reddit) any advice?

Report alleges massive Wyze data breach, but many questions remain

Federal Toxmap Shutters, Raising the Ire of Pollution Researchers

France to scan social media for tax cheats. The French government can go ahead with plans to trawl social media to detect tax avoidance, the constitutional court has ruled.

Got a tech question or want to discuss tech? Weekly /r/Technology Tech Support / General Discussion Thread

Singapore Facility to Produce Millions of Mosquitoes to Fight Dengue Outbreak

Amazon, Ring face lawsuit over alleged security camera hacks

How Disinformation Hacks Your Brain - The digital age has heightened our vulnerability to falsehood, but recognizing such weaknesses can help guard against them

Australian miners hit by lowest thermal coal price in more than a decade - Drop comes as usage in Europe and the US declines and China tightens use of imported coal.

VW's prototype charging robot can find your EV in the parking garage - You wouldn't have to hunt for a dedicated parking space.

Sky shepherds: the farmers using drones to watch their flocks by flight - For some farmers in New Zealand, Britain and Australia, drones are not just a toy – they’re an increasingly vital tool

Amazon wants to patent technology that could identify shoppers by their hands - The system could someday be used in Amazon Go or Whole Foods stores.

History’s Largest Mining Operation Is About to Begin: It’s underwater—and the consequences are unimaginable.

Internet restrictions ahead of fresh India protests

China's Competitor to GPS to Be Completed Before June 2020

Information teleported between two computer chips for the first time

Kubuntu Focus Linux Laptop Announced For 2020 With 6GB Nvidia GTX 2060, 32GB RAM

Tesla Theatre will soon be one of the biggest new streaming apps

Data caps must die: How Google and Microsoft's cloud gaming ambitions could conquer ISP greed

Court rules Turkey Wikipedia ban violates rights

Artificial intelligence identifies previously unknown features associated with cancer recurrence

Detailed vegetation seasonal information from the Himawari-8 geostationary satellite can be useful for many applications such as short- term drought monitoring and assessing the impact of heavy rainfall events, claims researchers from Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

Scientists harness AI to reverse ageing in billion-dollar industry

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Wikimedia Foundation expresses deep concerns about India’s proposed intermediary liability rules

Colleges are turning students phones into surveillance machines

The Decade Tech Lost Its Way

Netflix's decade of dominance: 3 trades

Newly released documents show T-Mobile considered a merger with the media giant Comcast, in addition to its merger with Sprint, in a plan to create one of the biggest companies in the world

Russia successfully tests country-wide alternative to global internet

We calculated emissions due to electricity loss on the power grid - More carbon emissions come from lost electricity than the chemical industry.

The next tech frontier: The elderly?

Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands

Turkey’s top court, The Turkish Constitutional Court, ruled on Thursday that a block on access to the website Wikipedia within Turkey is a violation of freedom of expression

Huawei attacks Wall Street Journal for report on $75bn China state aid

UAE chat app ToTok, reportedly govt's spying tool, denies misusing users' data

Science made astonishing progress. It was also hijacked by those with an axe to grind - Attacks and scepticism are on the rise, even as leaps are made in fields from gene editing and AI to interplanetary exploration

Internet data caps are utter BS. There's virtually no technical justification, just pure greed

Mazda3 bug activates emergency brake system for no reason - 35k vehicles are being recalled to fix the issue.

Be careful you are not giving away your privacy with Christmas gifts this year - Internet-connected devices are a tempting way to fill Christmas stockings, but our privacy is often traded away while we’re swept up in the fun

Too big to fail? Tech's decade of scale and impunity - Big tech behaves as though power absolves them of responsibility. Have we learned nothing since the financial crash?

YouTube reportedly considered screening all YouTube Kids videos

Fancy New Terms, Same Old Backdoors: The Encryption Debate in 2019

YouTube deals a massive blow to cryptocurrency community, calls it “harmful or dangerous”, mass deletes videos

Exhibition in China reflects on loss of anonymity to recognition technology

High-Speed Internet for All - Bernie Sanders

Why your cat is lousy at chess yet way smarter than even the most advanced AI

Honoring Chuck Peddle; Father Of The 6502 And The Chips That Went With It

Sony Can't Build Smartphone Camera Sensors Fast Enough

U.S. Cybercom contemplates information warfare to counter Russian interference in 2020 election

Sony, largest supplier of camera sensors is struggling to keep up with demand for new multi camera phones

Chinese hacking group found a way to bypass 2 Factor Authentication

Andrew Yang Suggests Giving Americans 'A Tiny Slice' of Amazon Sales, Google Searches, Facebook Ads and More

Scientists Store Data in Synthetic DNA Embedded in a Plastic Bunny

Russia’s Meteor-M satellite hit by micrometeorite

AWS Mobile App Development

Allergy to screens

Tesla’s Neural Net can now identify red and green traffic lights, garbage cans, and detailed road markings

Be Paranoid About Privacy. We need to take back our privacy from tech companies — even if that means sacrificing convenience.

Mike Bloomberg Exploited Prison Labor to Make 2020 Presidential Campaign Phone Calls

Washington State Ferries — Second-Largest Ferry Network — Switching From Diesel To Batteries

Streaming won't get easier or cheaper - At some point, companies need to start making money.

Brain-like Functions Emerging in a Metallic Nanowire Network

China-developed Interface Makes Thought-controlled Typing A Reality

Electric truck startup Rivian raises $1.3 billion more to challenge Tesla

Cox Communications Hit With $1B Jury Verdict in Music Piracy Suit

Realme X50 5G Smartphone will be Launched on January 7 - Company Confirmed - Daily Xpress News

How to extend my steam games across three monitors in Eyefinity?

The Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 5G appears to be on the way

A Twitter app bug was used to match 17 million phone numbers to user accounts

Top 8 Technology Trends for 2020, What do you think?

Revenge porn and sext crimes: Canada sees more than 5,000 police cases as law marks 5 years

Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands

Can syllabic keyboards help save Indigenous languages?

Chinese Teslas now come with built-in anime and video games

Capturing CO2 from trucks and reducing their emissions by 90%

Scientists discover 3 new species of solar power plants in 2019: A year of change for the solar and energy storage industry, as we shifted from deploying pure wattage to making our projects smarter with oversized DC-AC ratios, up to 60% capacity factors, and solar plants that shine only at night

Exclusive: Malware broker behind U.S. hacks is now teaching computer skills in China

AWS and Open Source: It's Complicated

Do You Pay Too Much for Internet Service? See How Your Bill Compares.(WSJ analysis of thousands of broadband bills)

Google Chrome impacted by new Magellan 2.0 vulnerabilities | ZDNet

'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' Is a Lesson in Military Opposites

NASA contractor convicted of substituting Chinese steel for space launch, then covering it up

Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Leaves Board, Severing Last Tie

Can someone inform me, what are the best true wireless earbuds on the market today?

Russia 'successfully tests' its unplugged internet

It's Hard to Ban Facial Recognition Tech in the iPhone Era - San Francisco quietly amends its municipal surveillance law to allow for Apple's Face ID, though the ban on facial recognition still applies.

Uniqlo's robots have already replaced 90% of its human workers at its flagship warehouse, now they have cracked the difficult task of folding T-shirts

China may be just about to launch its digital currency in two cities

TikTok reportedly wants a new HQ outside China to distance itself from its Chinese roots

100% Wind, Water, & Solar Energy Can & Should Be The Goal, Costs Less

Exhibition in China reflects on loss of anonymity to recognition technology

All-Electric Lilium Jet Successfully Completes Another Test Flight, Will be Used as Air Taxi by 2025

India is now the Undisputed World Leader of Internet Shutdowns

Russia successfully disconnected from the internet

‘I never understood wind’: Trump goes on bizarre tirade against wind turbines - President’s nonsensical rambling remarks about ‘windmills’ in segment from weekend speech raised eyebrows

Tesla's stock just hit a record $420

Inside Documents Show How Amazon Chose Speed Over Safety in Building Its Delivery Network - Amazon ignored or dismissed safety concerns about its delivery network to prioritize speed and explosive growth, according to new documents and interviews with insiders.

Amazon warehouse workers doing “back-breaking” work walked off the job in protest - Workers lifting hundreds of boxes a day say they fear being fired for missing work, and are demanding time off like other part-time workers.

Snopes is raising funds ahead of 2020 avalanche of misinformation

Facebook Removes Accounts With AI-Generated Profile Photos

Letter to Mark Zuckerberg from the UK, US, Australia, requesting that Facebook does not proceed with its plan to implement end-to-end encryption ... without ... including a means for lawful access to the content of communications

Reddit discloses users historical IP's and emails to law enforcement without a warrant.

France Fines Google for Mistreating Search Advertisers

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The modern web is becoming an unusable, user-hostile wasteland

Paid Cerberus 'lifetime' licenses are expiring, customers are mad

We need to act fast to protect the open internet in India.

'This is not rule of law': detention of Huawei workers sparks backlash - Arrests have raised questions in China about the company’s ties to the state and the wider tech industry

Chinese hacker group caught bypassing Two Factor Authentication.

San Francisco loosens facial recognition ban to allow newer iPhones - It illustrates the problems with blanket bans on facial recognition tech.

Ethiopia launches first satellite into space

ToTok, a popular Emirati messaging app that has been downloaded to millions of phones, is actually a spying tool used by the government of the United Arab Emirates to try to track every conversation, movement, relationship, appointment, sound and image of those who install it.

China internet rules call for algorithms that recommend 'positive' content - It wants automated systems to echo state policies.

Twitter Warns Millions of Android App Users to Update Immediately

Picnic's pizza robot to crank out up to 300 pies per hour at CES

Three people sentenced for running $100 million malware crime network

How Your Phone Betrays Democracy

Uninstall ToTok, an Alleged Emirati Spy App, From Your Phone Now

Predictions for the Future

Fake news report costs Bloomberg $7.6m in fines (France)

The double Edged Sword of Technology

Google’s Sundar Pichai Scores Huge Pay Increase With Promotion To Alphabet CEO

Caught Between Worlds: Imprisoned Tech Users In 2019

Yet Another Year of Fighting a Bad Copyright Bill: 2019 Year in Review

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Opinion | Total Surveillance Is Not What America Signed Up For

Why is there a big price difference in standalone scanners and All-in-one inkjet printers?

A Recycling Renegade Is Out of Prison—and Ready to Tackle the Electric Vehicle Battery Crisis

Satya Nadella brought Microsoft back from the brink of irrelevance

The Adolescent Spacefaring Dreams of Tech Billionaires - Their obsession harks back to sci-fi, but they could be doing more good on Earth

'I am going to say quiet words in your face just like I did with Trump': a conversation with the Zuckerbot

"Silicon Valley" actor Kumail Nanjiani is terrified by tech industry's blasé attitude toward privacy and other issues

The SEC is reportedly investigating how Slack and other tech unicorns were opened for trading on their first day as public companies

Half of the 10 highest paid YouTubers are gamers, and it's proof of the video game industry's influence on pop culture

New technique increases 3-D printing speed by 1,000 to 10,000 times

Anurag Kashyap's Twitter follower count reduces to 75,000 after filmmaker criticises BJP amid CAA protests

Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy

Germany to force net providers to hand over data of those suspected of 'hate speech', including passwords

FBI program helps companies fool hackers with 'decoy data' - IDLE might reduce the chances of thieves making off with valuable data.

Freaked Out? 3 Steps to Protect Your Phone

Tories switch to messaging app Signal after WhatsApp leaks | The Guardian