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Court Order Forces UK ISP TalkTalk to Block Sci-Hub Website

Euro zone inflation hits 10-year high ahead of key central bank meeting

It looks like Google's willing to bend the Play Store rules if you're a big enough customer

The iPhone 13’s rumored satellite link sounds like it’s just for emergencies

The end of phone calls: why young people have silenced their ringtones: A survey has found only a fraction of 16- to 24-year-olds think phone calls are remotely important - so they’ve put their phones on vibrate.

A Tesla on Autopilot Crashed Into Highway Patrol Car: The crash occurred days after federal regulators announced a probe into this very type of crash.

The Great American Science Heist: How the Bayh-Dole Act Wrested Public Science From the People’s Hands

Zoom shares slide 10% on slowing growth

New cracks found on International Space Station

Reddit Content Policy updated today: "no community should be used as a weapon."

Apple’s New Child Safety Technology Might Harm More Kids Than It Helps

Facebook is the AOL of 2021 | The 1990s had a word for being trapped inside a manipulative notion of human contact: AOL. Facebook and its ilk are the rebirth of that limited vision.

New AMD Patent Proposes Teleportation to Make Quantum Computing More Efficient

After Reddit refuses demands for crackdown, dozens of subreddits go dark to protest COVID disinformation

The Taliban reportedly have control of US biometric devices – a lesson in life-and-death consequences of data privacy

Flying car completes 35-minute test flight between cities

How the ‘Right to Repair’ Might Save Your Gadgets—and Save You Money - New legislation aims to provide more options for fixing our broken gadgets. A journey to fix two MacBooks illustrates the repair restrictions put in place by Apple and other big tech companies.

Pokémon Go's Reddit Goes Dark In Protest Against Site Inaction

Internal Amazon documents shed light on how company pressures out 6% of office workers

Tencent's messaging platform blocks LGBTQ search terms

Why Facebook Won’t Stop Pushing Propaganda

China cuts children's online gaming to one hour

You’ll have to tell Instagram your birthday to keep using the app.

Delivery Apps to 'Vigorously Fight' to Take More Money From Struggling Restaurants

Kids in China now restricted to just 3 hours of online gaming per week

Alien 'Dyson spheres' could be harvesting the power of black holes

Tesla using Autopilot crashes into police car in Florida

Apple iPhone 13 to Bring LEO Satellite Connections, No Need for Cell Signals to Call or Text Analyst Says

Can the World’s First Space Sweeper Make a Dent in Orbiting Debris? - A private company has just completed the first successful test of its trash collector

That Linux lawsuit: 20 years later, SCO vs IBM may finally be ending

Government report finds Israel methane emissions much higher than world averages

Trudeau promises to regulate oil and gas emissions as protestors make appearance

Google self-driving spinoff Waymo begins testing with public in San Francisco

China requires technology companies to provide one-hour online game services to minors only from 20:00 to 21:00 on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays.

On YouTube, you’re never far from a dying kitten - Staged animal rescue videos featuring brutal violence and cruelty are racking up millions of views on YouTube

Arctic Adventure: A Lost 1981 TRS-80 Adventure Game

Hackers are trying to topple Belarus’s dictator, with help from the inside

Meltdown-like Vulnerability Affects AMD Zen+ and Zen2 Processors

The modern challenge of gaming without a strong Internet connection.

Google Play app store revenue hit $11.2 bln in 2019, lawsuit says

SpaceX launches Dragon cargo ship to space station with fresh food, science gear and Girl Scout experiments

Apple’s $100 million settlement agreement changes a key App Store rule for developers

Federal government to expand use of facial recognition despite growing concerns

Floating wind turbines could open up vast ocean tracts for renewable power

An Advertising Company Wants to Make Deepfake Clones of Your Face

How to Defend Yourself Against the Powerful New NSO Spyware Attacks Discovered Around the World

Israel’s largest private hospital inadvertently reveals data of 50,000 Israelis

Gas, like coal, has no future as the world wakes up to climate emergency

Why the Future of Space Tourism Has Already Arrived

No Surprise, Uber and Lyft Lied About Helping Workers: Uber and Lyft said that California's Proposition 22 would help their drivers. We now have proof they were lying.

The Microsoft database hack shows that data stored in the cloud must always be encrypted end-to-end. While politicians still ask for 'legit access' to fight CSAM, the latest Microsoft hack shows that any data stored without encryption is always at risk.