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Get yourself cybersecure for 2020 | Technology
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Calif. vastly expands digital privacy. Will people use it?
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California Wanted to Protect Uber Drivers. Now It May Hurt Freelancers.
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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'
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Apple escalates legal fight with iOS virtualization tool provider Corellium
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Brazil fines Facebook $1.6 million for improper sharing of user data
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Tuvalu is a tiny island nation of 11,000 people. It’s cashing in thanks to Twitch.
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Iridium would pay to deorbit its 30 defunct satellites — for the right price
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Sex Toy an Electronics Show Award Finalist After Controversy
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Retailers grapple with $100bn returns problem - Online purchases in the US almost three times more likely to be sent back
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UN special rapporteur on torture condemns continued incarceration of Chelsea Manning as thousands call for her release
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Police Departments Are Using Swatting Registries To Help Protect Swatting Targets From Police Officers
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Wyze: Data Leak Exposes 2.4 Million Customers
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Uber and Postmates File Suit to Block California Freelancer Law
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Tesla’s New Lithium-Ion Patent Brings Company Closer to Promised 1 Million-Mile Battery
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As robots take over warehousing, workers pushed to adapt
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Microsoft says North Korea-linked hackers stole sensitive information
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NIST Study Of 189 Facial Recognition Algorithms Finds Minorities Are Misidentified Almost 100 Times More Often Than White Men
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We picked the 10 most-influential technologies of the decade. It isn’t all bad.
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Intel at CES to spring laptop cooling news?
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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.
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California's groundbreaking privacy law takes effect in January. What does it do?
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Tesla delivers its first 'Made in China' cars
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Chinese scientists jailed over 'world's first gene-edited babies.'
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Watch these hackers crack an ATM in minutes
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Is Facilities Management ready for the next decade?
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Secretive energy startup backed by Bill Gates achieves solar breakthrough
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WhatsApp support will end for Windows phones
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Science Under Attack: How Trump Is Sidelining Researchers and Their Work
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NYU doctor Joseph Wiesel claims Apple used his patented heartbeat-monitoring tech without permission in lawsuit
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He Jiankui, Chinese scientist who edited babies' genes, jailed for three years
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Indian tech startups raised a record $14.5B in 2019
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Crisis Looms in Antibiotics as Drug Makers Go Bankrupt
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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
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Up to Speed? Time, money, maps and the push for 100% broadband in rural Colorado
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36C3: Open Source Is Insufficient To Solve Trust Problems In Hardware
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‘Facebook is the new cigarettes for our society,’ Marc Benioff says, calling for regulation
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Electric vehicles are supposed to be green, but the truth is a bit murkier
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How much of a genius-level move was using binary space partitioning in Doom?
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U.S. companies are forcing workers to train their own foreign replacements
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5G Is Going To Screw Up Weather Forecasts, Meteorologists Warn
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Flash Forest aims to use drones to plant a billion trees by 2028
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Kenya installs the first solar plant that transforms Ocean water into drinking water
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Non-smokers and teens take up vaping: study blames ads
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AI puts final notes on Beethoven's Tenth Symphony
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Tidal forces carry the mathematical signature of gravitational waves
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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
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China and Twitter: The year Chinese diplomacy went social - It's fair to say Beijing's diplomatic speech is not known for its spontaneity.
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What Does California’s New Data Privacy Law Mean? Nobody Agrees
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What are some upcoming tech innovations or companies that in your opinion will see substantial growth over the next few years?
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Ookla’s Speedtest begins rolling out new mobile VPN in Android app
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Question about wallpapers for windows 10
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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
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Even amid the affluence of tech capital in Silicon Valley, local news struggles
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This wearable vest grows a self-sustaining garden watered by your own urine
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Phones should be able to hide an active 911 call and 911 calls from your call history
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The One-Traffic-Light Town with Some of the Fastest Internet in the U.S.
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When Chinese hackers declared war on the rest of us
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I just read Facebook’s California Consumer Privacy Act statement that goes into effect as of 1/1/2020
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The World's First Working Protosaber is Here - NERDBOT
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Samsung TV spying on users by taking screenshots of their TVs and uploading them to Samsung for “automatic content recognition (ACR)”
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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
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Cloudflare Removes Warrant Canary: Thoughtful Post Says It Can No Longer Say It Hasn't Removed A Site Due To Political Pressure
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California mulls electric-car requirement for ride shares
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After France, Italy approves digital tax on tech giants
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How NIST Tested Facial Recognition Algorithms for Racial Bias - Some algorithms were up to 100 times better at identifying white faces
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Under Trump, science isn’t dead. Feds’ new focus includes AI, quantum computing.
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Huawei received £57bn in aid from China to undercut rivals
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Two years of data reveal what people on Reddit are most worried about: Redditors' worries reveal some common — and unexpected — themes.
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Robot ROV cleans large vessels in Vietnam. Enjoy the newest marine services technology.
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For those of you who deleted social media (besides Reddit) any advice?
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Report alleges massive Wyze data breach, but many questions remain
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Federal Toxmap Shutters, Raising the Ire of Pollution Researchers
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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.
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Got a tech question or want to discuss tech? Weekly /r/Technology Tech Support / General Discussion Thread
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Singapore Facility to Produce Millions of Mosquitoes to Fight Dengue Outbreak
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Amazon, Ring face lawsuit over alleged security camera hacks
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How Disinformation Hacks Your Brain - The digital age has heightened our vulnerability to falsehood, but recognizing such weaknesses can help guard against them
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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.
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VW's prototype charging robot can find your EV in the parking garage - You wouldn't have to hunt for a dedicated parking space.
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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.
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History’s Largest Mining Operation Is About to Begin: It’s underwater—and the consequences are unimaginable.
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Internet restrictions ahead of fresh India protests
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China's Competitor to GPS to Be Completed Before June 2020
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Information teleported between two computer chips for the first time
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Kubuntu Focus Linux Laptop Announced For 2020 With 6GB Nvidia GTX 2060, 32GB RAM
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Tesla Theatre will soon be one of the biggest new streaming apps
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Data caps must die: How Google and Microsoft's cloud gaming ambitions could conquer ISP greed
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Court rules Turkey Wikipedia ban violates rights
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Artificial intelligence identifies previously unknown features associated with cancer recurrence
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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
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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
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Colleges are turning students phones into surveillance machines
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Netflix's decade of dominance: 3 trades
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Russia successfully tests country-wide alternative to global internet
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We calculated emissions due to electricity loss on the power grid - More carbon emissions come from lost electricity than the chemical industry.
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Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands
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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
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Huawei attacks Wall Street Journal for report on $75bn China state aid
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UAE chat app ToTok, reportedly govt's spying tool, denies misusing users' data
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Internet data caps are utter BS. There's virtually no technical justification, just pure greed
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Mazda3 bug activates emergency brake system for no reason - 35k vehicles are being recalled to fix the issue.
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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?
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YouTube reportedly considered screening all YouTube Kids videos
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Fancy New Terms, Same Old Backdoors: The Encryption Debate in 2019
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YouTube deals a massive blow to cryptocurrency community, calls it “harmful or dangerous”, mass deletes videos
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Exhibition in China reflects on loss of anonymity to recognition technology
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High-Speed Internet for All - Bernie Sanders
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Why your cat is lousy at chess yet way smarter than even the most advanced AI
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Honoring Chuck Peddle; Father Of The 6502 And The Chips That Went With It
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Sony Can't Build Smartphone Camera Sensors Fast Enough
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U.S. Cybercom contemplates information warfare to counter Russian interference in 2020 election
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Sony, largest supplier of camera sensors is struggling to keep up with demand for new multi camera phones
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Chinese hacking group found a way to bypass 2 Factor Authentication
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Andrew Yang Suggests Giving Americans 'A Tiny Slice' of Amazon Sales, Google Searches, Facebook Ads and More
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Scientists Store Data in Synthetic DNA Embedded in a Plastic Bunny
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Russia’s Meteor-M satellite hit by micrometeorite
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Tesla’s Neural Net can now identify red and green traffic lights, garbage cans, and detailed road markings
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Be Paranoid About Privacy. We need to take back our privacy from tech companies — even if that means sacrificing convenience.
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Mike Bloomberg Exploited Prison Labor to Make 2020 Presidential Campaign Phone Calls
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Washington State Ferries — Second-Largest Ferry Network — Switching From Diesel To Batteries
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Streaming won't get easier or cheaper - At some point, companies need to start making money.
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Brain-like Functions Emerging in a Metallic Nanowire Network
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China-developed Interface Makes Thought-controlled Typing A Reality
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Electric truck startup Rivian raises $1.3 billion more to challenge Tesla
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Cox Communications Hit With $1B Jury Verdict in Music Piracy Suit
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Realme X50 5G Smartphone will be Launched on January 7 - Company Confirmed - Daily Xpress News
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How to extend my steam games across three monitors in Eyefinity?
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The Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 5G appears to be on the way
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A Twitter app bug was used to match 17 million phone numbers to user accounts
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Top 8 Technology Trends for 2020, What do you think?
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Revenge porn and sext crimes: Canada sees more than 5,000 police cases as law marks 5 years
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Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands
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Can syllabic keyboards help save Indigenous languages?
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Chinese Teslas now come with built-in anime and video games
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Capturing CO2 from trucks and reducing their emissions by 90%
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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
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Exclusive: Malware broker behind U.S. hacks is now teaching computer skills in China
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Do You Pay Too Much for Internet Service? See How Your Bill Compares.(WSJ analysis of thousands of broadband bills)
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Google Chrome impacted by new Magellan 2.0 vulnerabilities | ZDNet
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'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' Is a Lesson in Military Opposites
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NASA contractor convicted of substituting Chinese steel for space launch, then covering it up
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Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Leaves Board, Severing Last Tie
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Can someone inform me, what are the best true wireless earbuds on the market today?
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Russia 'successfully tests' its unplugged internet
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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
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China may be just about to launch its digital currency in two cities
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TikTok reportedly wants a new HQ outside China to distance itself from its Chinese roots
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100% Wind, Water, & Solar Energy Can & Should Be The Goal, Costs Less
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Exhibition in China reflects on loss of anonymity to recognition technology
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All-Electric Lilium Jet Successfully Completes Another Test Flight, Will be Used as Air Taxi by 2025
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India is now the Undisputed World Leader of Internet Shutdowns
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Russia successfully disconnected from the internet
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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.
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Snopes is raising funds ahead of 2020 avalanche of misinformation
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Facebook Removes Accounts With AI-Generated Profile Photos
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Reddit discloses users historical IP's and emails to law enforcement without a warrant.
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France Fines Google for Mistreating Search Advertisers
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The modern web is becoming an unusable, user-hostile wasteland
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Paid Cerberus 'lifetime' licenses are expiring, customers are mad
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We need to act fast to protect the open internet in India.
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'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
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Chinese hacker group caught bypassing Two Factor Authentication.
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San Francisco loosens facial recognition ban to allow newer iPhones - It illustrates the problems with blanket bans on facial recognition tech.
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Ethiopia launches first satellite into space
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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.
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China internet rules call for algorithms that recommend 'positive' content - It wants automated systems to echo state policies.
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Twitter Warns Millions of Android App Users to Update Immediately
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Picnic's pizza robot to crank out up to 300 pies per hour at CES
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Three people sentenced for running $100 million malware crime network
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Uninstall ToTok, an Alleged Emirati Spy App, From Your Phone Now
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Fake news report costs Bloomberg $7.6m in fines (France)
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Google’s Sundar Pichai Scores Huge Pay Increase With Promotion To Alphabet CEO
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Caught Between Worlds: Imprisoned Tech Users In 2019
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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
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Why is there a big price difference in standalone scanners and All-in-one inkjet printers?
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A Recycling Renegade Is Out of Prison—and Ready to Tackle the Electric Vehicle Battery Crisis
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Satya Nadella brought Microsoft back from the brink of irrelevance
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The Adolescent Spacefaring Dreams of Tech Billionaires - Their obsession harks back to sci-fi, but they could be doing more good on Earth
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'I am going to say quiet words in your face just like I did with Trump': a conversation with the Zuckerbot
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"Silicon Valley" actor Kumail Nanjiani is terrified by tech industry's blasé attitude toward privacy and other issues
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The SEC is reportedly investigating how Slack and other tech unicorns were opened for trading on their first day as public companies
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Half of the 10 highest paid YouTubers are gamers, and it's proof of the video game industry's influence on pop culture
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New technique increases 3-D printing speed by 1,000 to 10,000 times
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Anurag Kashyap's Twitter follower count reduces to 75,000 after filmmaker criticises BJP amid CAA protests
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Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy
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Germany to force net providers to hand over data of those suspected of 'hate speech', including passwords
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FBI program helps companies fool hackers with 'decoy data' - IDLE might reduce the chances of thieves making off with valuable data.
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Freaked Out? 3 Steps to Protect Your Phone
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Tories switch to messaging app Signal after WhatsApp leaks | The Guardian
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