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Aging infrastructure the ‘single, greatest threat’ to NASA missions and technology

Meet Paragon: An American-Funded, Super-Secretive Israeli Surveillance Startup That ‘Hacks WhatsApp And Signal’

Inside the Bitcoin mine with its own power plant

Tesla-inspired module rescue is a futuristic mobile health camp and rescue machine for disaster relief

After accusations, Twitter will pay hackers to find biases in its automatic image crops

Clean energy plan would cut emissions and save 317,000 lives. “This would be a huge leap in ambition and we’d see that in the health impacts, there would be millions of fewer asthma attacks, for example. And this doesn’t even consider the health impacts from heat and other climate-related causes.”

Justice Department says Russians hacked federal prosecutors

Amazon hit with $887 million fine by European privacy watchdog

Amazon hit by record $887 million EU privacy fine

Can hybrid working ever be truly sustainable? - Information Age

Space Force eyes solar-powered vehicles for operations near the moon

MIT researchers created a totally new kind of digital fiber

Multi-day iron-air batteries reach commercialization… at one tenth of the cost of lithium

Georgia nuclear plant cost tops $27B as more delays unveiled

Chinese disinformation "much more subtle, much more insidious" than Moscow's, former cyber chief warns

Disinformation for hire: PR firms are the new battleground for Facebook

Here's 30 servers Russian intelligence uses to fling malware at the West, beams RiskIQ

EU slaps Amazon with a record $886 million fine over privacy violations

Jeff Bezos Fails in Fight for Moon Lander Contract

Blizzard Recruiters Asked Hacker If She ‘Liked Being Penetrated’ at Job Fair

Government watchdog rejects Blue Origin’s protest over lunar lander contract – TechCrunch

Elon Musk calls App Store fees a ‘de facto global tax on the internet,’ sides with Epic Games

Microsoft is facing a subpoena for millions of documents in Google’s antitrust case

Facebook recalls Quest 2 headset pads after skin rashes

Google to ban sugar-daddy apps from Play Store

Nikola electric-truck prototypes were powered by hidden wall sockets, towed into position and rolled down hills, prosecutors say

'World's most powerful' wave turbine starts generating electricity

Here’s what that Google Drive “security update” message means

Boeing Starliner OFT-2 launch to space station delayed following Russian module mishap

Tesla Model 3 catapults to #2 best-selling car in Europe in June

She risked everything to expose Facebook. Now she’s telling her story.

IBM's AI can predict how Parkinson's disease may progress in individuals

You have a choice: China’s top court empowers people to say ‘no’ to facial recognition use by private businesses

Meet Paragon: An American-Funded, Super-Secretive Israeli Surveillance Startup That ‘Hacks WhatsApp And Signal’

This is no ordinary spying. Our most intimate selves are now exposed: The Pegasus project shows we could all soon be ruled by states that know everything about us, while we know less and less about them

Space start-up Varda, founded by SpaceX and Founders Fund veterans, aims to build factories in orbit

Phantom Warships Are Courting Chaos in Conflict Zones: The latest weapons in the global information war are fake vessels behaving badly

Russia fines Google for violating data storage law

Activision Blizzard Hires Amazon Union Busting Firm Mid Lawsuit

Biden says he has deal to lower Internet prices, but the details will matter

Scarlett Johansson is suing Disney over Black Widow’s streaming release

48 Advocacy Groups Call on the FTC to Ban Amazon Surveillance

Nikola Founder Trevor Milton Indicted for Allegedly Lying About Everything: Among other things, the trucks couldn't even run on their own battery power for basic product demonstrations and had to be plugged into a wall.

'NO DASHER = NO DELIVERIES:' DoorDash Drivers Strike for Tip Transparency

The baby was gravely ill. Rapid sequencing turned around a diagnosis in 13 hours — and pointed to a treatment

Google reads the room, tells workers to get their COVID-19 shots

Oculus recalls Quest 2 headset pads after skin rashes

Duolingo enters 'major leagues' with $6.5 bln valuation in strong debut

BMW debuts 2 very cool new electric scooter concepts that it won't build

Taiwan probes reports of officials’ messaging accounts being hacked

Just 5% of Electric Plants Responsible for 73% of Power Sector Emissions