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Caltech wins $1.1 billion patent award against Apple and Broadcom

There are already Chinese components in your pocket – so why fret about 5G gear?

Online Ads Still Vulnerable to Manipulation in US Election

Elon Musk just dropped an EDM track on SoundCloud

Swiping their way higher: Visa, Mastercard on track to be the next $1 trillion companies

6G Network to be 8000x Faster than 5G? Progress so far

Hawaii committee votes unanimously to advance Right to Repair

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is no more. Here's what's next for infrared astronomy.

The Week in Tech: London Hands Washington a Loss on Huawei

Tesla boss Musk releases electronic dance track

Social media boosting service exposed thousands of Instagram passwords

Cloud technologies in Banking

APPG on Electoral Campaigning Transparency adopt ORG reforms to electoral landscape

FBI Probing Israeli Spyware in Government and Private Hacking

EU lawmakers snub Apple's pleas, overwhelmingly vote to push for charging cable standard

Facebook knows a lot about your online habits – here’s how to stop it

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An AI algorithm detected the Coronavirus outbreak a week before scientists and doctors did

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The DOJ Is Finally Suing US Telecom Providers for Robocalls

Why We Should Ban Facial Recognition Technology

Exonerated: Charges dropped against pentesters paid to break into Iowa courthouse

In secret deal with drugmaker, health-records tool pushed opioids to doctors

Cal Tech wins $1.1 billion patent infringement case against Apple, Broadcom

Forensics detective says Android phones are now harder to crack than iPhones

Mark Warner Takes on Big Tech and Russian Spies

This Wearable Helps You Pick Groceries Based on Your DNA

Apple and its wifi chip company Broadcom ordered to pay $1.1bn to university over iPhone patents | Caltech claims Apple and Broadcom infringed four of its patents by using wifi chips in hundreds of millions of iPhones.

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5G: The outsourced elephant in the room

The Pi Record Returns to the Personal Computer

Why You Should Start Screening For Hidden Spy Cameras When You Travel

How will AI change education? With many expecting AI to be available commercially to the general public in the coming decade, how will education/learning/school change?

Facebook reaches $550 million settlement in facial recognition lawsuit

UN confirms it suffered a 'serious' hack, but didn't inform employees

Microsoft urged: Open-source Windows 7 to 'undo past wrongs' Group of free software advocates calls on Microsoft to release Windows 7 under a free software license.

Lithium may help cure Alzheimer’s

New Bill Would Make Needed Steps Toward Curbing Mass Surveillance

The price of free software: Avast has been selling the browser history of its users

Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook's goal is no longer to be 'liked'

EU drops idea of facial recognition ban in public areas: paper

Facebook Won’t Remove This Woman’s Butthole As A Business Page

New “Off-Facebook Activity” portal lets you know where you’re being followed

Facebook and Twitter are least trusted in social media for political news.

Facebook to Pay $550 Million to Settle Facial Recognition Suit

GE earnings beat: 3 ways to trade it

World First: Genetically Engineered Moth Is Released Into an Open Field

How India, the World's Largest Democracy, Shuts Down the Internet

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UK Has a Plan to Corral Huawei. But Security Concerns Linger

Barstool Sports sells to Penn National in a $450 million deal

The Facebook 'Clear History' Button Is Finally Here

Facebook Launches Tool To Delete Third-Party Data Used For Ad-Targeting

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Amazon engineer says Ring should be 'shut down immediately'

A robot named Little Peanut is delivering food to people in quarantine amid the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak

EU Will Not Ban Huawei, but Impose 'Strict' 5G Rules

Utah company uses artificial intelligence to solve crimes in seconds

Bernie Sanders Thinks Companies That Sell Your Browser History Are 'Trampling Over the Rights of Consumers'

Microsoft releases open source source code analyzer

CNET: Antivirus firm Avast is reportedly selling users' web browsing data

Facebook finally launches 'Clear History' button for real

Bernie Sanders Thinks Companies That Sell Your Browser History Are ‘Trampling Over the Rights of Consumers’

Facebook, Google and Twitter scramble to stop misinformation about coronavirus

EFF and Other Groups to PCLOB: Urge the Ban of Face Recognition

Apple beats Q1 earnings estimates, reporting strong iPhone, app and wearable sales

Big earnings trades: 6 picks

Bernie Sanders Thinks Companies That Sell Your Browser History Are ‘Trampling Over the Rights of Consumers: "No reasonable person would expect antivirus software to be selling off their private browsing data to the highest bidder."

Perspective | Facebook will now show you exactly how it stalks you — even when you’re not using Facebook

The UK government has decided to allow Huawei to continue to be in its 5G networks but with restrictions.

The US Space Force Has a Rough Launch on the Internet

Boris Johnson gives green light for Huawei 5G infrastructure role in UK

Google halts paid-for Chrome extension updates amid fraud surge: Web Store in lockdown 'due to the scale of abuse'

Government must pledge to uphold data privacy

Data Protection Day letter to Members of Parliament

Russia’s Google Will Bring You Groceries in Just 15 Minutes

Question WRT to planted in-panel spy cameras...

A Cloud-Based POS Software For The Repair Industry

Lyft Junior Software Engineers Earn More Than $200,000 Per Year

Mapping the power of Mozilla’s Rebel Alliance

Indiana House OKs legislation barring companies from microchipping their employees

Battery issues in a DirecTV satellite may have exposed it to an explosion risk

Help!! Keep getting random events on my calendar

Nano-thin flexible touchscreens could be printed like newspaper

Government privacy watchdog under pressure to recommend facial recognition ban

AI Epidemiologist Sent First Warning of Wuhan Virus--This is WHY the US needs Andrew Yang

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Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers

Countdown to Apple earnings: 3 trades

ATARI-Themed Hotel Coming to U.S. in Mid-2020s

One Small Fix Would Curb Stingray Surveillance

Saudi Arabia Outsources Cyber Arsenal, Buys Spyware

PS4 games on Android with Remote Play | Top Line Geeks

Stretchable Batteries , seems like theres new tech released everyday now

Found my JBL air pod under my work dumpster, can I clean it or should I chuck it?

WaPo: We don’t know whether MBS hacked Jeff Bezos’s phone. We do know spyware is everywhere.

Amazon’s Rekognition shows its true colors

Microsoft forced to create a free Windows 7 update just days after updates ended

Yes, Alexa is recording mundane details of your life, and it’s creepy as hell

This activity tracker can help identify when your cat gets sick

Magecart cybercrime gang arrested in Indonesia

What Everyone Ought to Know About Proxies

How AI Is Making Human Life More Easy

UK introduces new fast-track visa to attract scientists

Hundreds of Amazon employees plan to risk their jobs this week by violating company policy: Workers say Amazon threatened to fire employees who criticized its environmental policies; now, they’re planning to speak out en masse.

An AI epidemiologist first broke news of the impending coronavirus outbreak in China

Taiwan Is Opening A Giant AI-Focused Business Park

Under the sea, Microsoft tests a datacenter that’s quick to deploy, could provide internet connectivity for years

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How soon until the only computer you use is your "Phone"?

U.S. state attorneys general will meet Justice Department attorneys next week to share information on their investigations into Alphabet’s Google. The probes revolve around monopolistic behavior that may harm consumers through Google’s control of online advertising markets and search traffic

RGB on water cooling, motherboard, and graphics card

Windows 7 should live on as open source, spectacularly optimistic campaign demands

Access to Wikipedia restored in Turkey after more than two and a half years

Hydrogen-fueled Drones Will Inspect U.S. Gas Pipeline

Boeing 777X: World’s largest twin-engine jet completes first flight

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Why millennials are the “death positive” generation: Unlike boomers, young people are embracing planning their own funerals. It’s fueling changes in the death industry.

Clinton says Zuckerberg has 'authoritarian' views on misinformation

Foldable phones need strong screens and killer apps to succeed in 2020

Crowdfunding expected to catalyse capital market

Climate change-driven sea-level rise could trigger mass migration of Americans to inland cities. A new study uses machine learning to project migration patterns resulting from sea-level rise.

Chinese city uses surveillance tech to shame citizens for wearing pajamas outside

SpaceX Readies 2020 Satellite Broadband Launch and Amazon's Not Far Beyond - Cable and telco's death grip on internet service is about to loosen.

Warning Issued For Millions Of Microsoft Windows 10 Users

China warned not to rush into creating rival Facebook’s Libra

If we weren’t the first industrial civilization on Earth, would we ever know?

More Tesla version 3 "Solar Glass" installations in the wild, a photo gallery update

A man diagnosed with Wuhan coronavirus near Seattle is being treated largely by a robot

YouTube fined 867 million for violating telecom law in South Korea

Facebook's Clegg criticised over WhatsApp security

SAAS Business Model & Working Method

Boeing 777X: World’s largest twin/engine completes its first flight

RBC files AI patents to predict clients’ needs as big tech encroaches on bankers’ turf

[Discussion] How long do you guys think Micro-USB will be completely abandoned and a new modernized port like USB-C will be common place or the default?

Every Steps in your life is followed by Google

How social media misinformation wins — even if you don't believe it

The Fake Economies of Internet Publishing

Facebook and YouTube moderators sign PTSD disclosure

Scraping the Web Is a Powerful Tool. Clearview AI Abused It

Is Dropbox a safe alternative to Google Drive? My findings...

Bezos allegations put phone hacking technology in the spotlight

What will happen if Brexit goes through? British Government already seriously considered banning FB an Twitter

iPad turns 10: Why did it take a decade for Apple's tablet to get its own operating system?

You Are Now Remotely Controlled

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

Cashless businesses are now banned in NYC

Web portal I found

Apple says universal phone charger would "stifle innovation"

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Researchers have developed a camera that captures the “invisible” at a billion frames per second

California OKs highly questioned LA County voting system

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Facial recognition in schools: Even supporters say it won't stop shootings. The facial recognition industry is starting to see that its promises offer a false sense of security.

New Jersey Bars Police From Using Clearview Facial Recognition App

Free Software Foundation suggests Microsoft 'upcycles' Windows 7... as open source

New York state wants to ban government agencies from paying ransomware demands

Met begins operational use of Live Facial Recognition (LFR) technology

Mars Rover Is Frozen in Place Following Software Error

Hacker leaks passwords for more than 500,000 servers, routers, and IoT devices The list was shared by the operator of a DDoS booter service.

U.S. Justice Dept. plans to hold meeting to discuss tech industry liability

Comcast is jacking up its prices again and blaming subsiduary NBC's "Peacock" streaming service. As a result Comcast's "free" streaming service will cost customers up to $8.45/mo even if they never use it.

'New' DeLorean DMC-12 models could finally be on the way

Institutional Presentation

5 reasons to never trust a free VPN

The UK just turned on NEC's facial recognition technology to 'reduce crime'

Rolls-Royce plans mini nuclear reactors by 2029

George Soros Says Facebook Is Conspiring to Re-Elect Trump

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After a decade of drama, Apple is ready to kill Flash in Safari once and for all

Microsoft went to court, lobbied Congress and changed the law, all to fight back against an IRS investigation into the billions of tax-free profits it had shifted to Puerto Rico for years

Sonos Makes It Clear: You No Longer Own The Things You Buy

Rogers internal source code and keys found on the open web

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Broadcom to supply wireless components to Apple

Seattle-area election will let residents vote by smartphone

Amazon Engineer Leaked Private Encryption Keys. Outside Analysts Discovered Them in Minutes

Microsoft: Application Inspector is now open source, so use it to test code security Microsoft offers up the security tool it uses to probe untrusted third-party software components in its applications.

White House Says It Takes Reports of Amazon Chief Bezos' Phone Hack Seriously

Wikipedia now has more than 6 million articles in English

U.N. says officials barred from using WhatsApp since June 2019 over security

The Key To Fixing Copyright Is Ending Massive, Unpredictable Damages Awards

Tinder adds a panic button for dates that go wrong

Intel soars on earnings: 5 trades

Caltech Team Builds a Camera That Captures The Invisible at a Trillion Frames Per Second

Twitter rolling out iMessage-like reactions feature to direct messages

Facebook's rising Democrat problem

Facebook, Amazon and Apple set records in annual spending on lobbying

Not Bot, Not Beast: Scientists Create First Ever Living, Programmable Organism

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SaveDotOrg Protest at ICANN | SaveDotOrg.org

DirecTV satellite is at risk of explosion due to battery issues

Tech giants led by Amazon, Facebook and Google spent nearly half a billion on lobbying over the past decade, new data shows

How to block Facebook and Google from identifying your face

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China arrested a U.S. university student for mocking its president in tweets.

Microsoft to force Chrome default search to Bing using Office 365 installer

Google discovers Apple Safari's anti-tracking feature let users be tracked

DOJ letter reveals the FBI recently cracked an iPhone 11.

Why tech has been slow to fight wildfires, extreme weather

Twitter Tells Facial Recognition Trailblazer to Stop Using Site’s Photos

Virtual reality is helping surgeons train for surgeries.

Protester says she was paid to appear at Huawei hearing

Amazon hits $200 billion mark beating Google and Apple to become world’s most valuable company

Microsoft accidentally exposed 250 million customer service records

Microsoft Security Shocker As 250 Million Customer Records Exposed Online

How Jeff Bezos’ iPhone X Was Hacked

Trump demands Apple unlock iPhones: 'They have the keys to so many criminals and criminal minds'

Uber and Hyundai’s plan to develop air taxis hinges on mass production

Data Regulator pushes ahead with age gates

Condoms That Change Color In Contact with STD Win Tech Award

Sonos masks planned obsolescence as environmentally friendly recycling program

Reuters: Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained; Google went ahead with encrypted backups regardless

Amazon retains world’s most valuable brand title by smashing through $200 billion barrier (and now $60 billion more than Google)

Verizon Launches New Private Search Engine In Hopes You've Forgotten Its Terrible Track Record On Privacy

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The Saudi hack on Jeff Bezos' phone went on for months and led to gigabytes of personal data being stolen, according to new report

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Analysis Said to Tie Hacking of Bezos’ Phone to Saudi Leader’s Account

Report: Bezos phone uploaded GBs of personal data after getting Saudi prince’s WhatsApp message