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How a simple tech upgrade at the IRS could transform the economy - “An API would allow the agency to provide your transcripts the instant you give your authorization. Credit providers would then have more information to make better decisions about your approval and rate.“

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U.S. government's embattled email surveillance program proves resilient

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In our digital world, are young people losing the ability to read emotions? (UCLA study suggests digital devices hamper social skills, ability to “read” faces)

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Recovering lost footage from diseased film using x-rays and lasers

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Wikipedia picture of the day on January 1, 2018: Although there...

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17 technologies that died in 2017

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Chinese Regulators Hint At Investigation Into Potential DRAM Price Fixing

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Big money is backing out of fossil fuel industry, moving into greener alternatives - “follow the dollar to see where the future of energy is headed, globally.”

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Meet the CIA’s Insectothopter - Sadly, the 1-gram spy craft couldn’t withstand a gentle breeze, but later dragonfly-inspired UAVs proved far more capable

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Pinned to Medical Pathology on Pinterest

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Floridians face a full ban on texting while driving if legislature passes new bill

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The current culture of heavily regulated and data-driven auto safety engineering did not always exist. For decades, automakers tried to keep data about car wrecks to themselves. Other technologies could benefit a lot from a shift toward more open data, following the lead of the automobile industry.

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Congo orders cuts to internet and SMS to stifle protests.

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Forever 21: Hackers breached our payment system

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Snowden Explains Why Telegram Messenger App is Unsafe

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China's Shenzhen Becomes First in the World to Electrify All Buses - The city shows us the future of transportation.

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New video by The King of Random on YouTube

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Tesla the Car Is a Household Name. Long Ago, So Was Nikola Tesla. - “In the age of Edison, Westinghouse, Marconi and J. P. Morgan, Tesla was a giant of innovation because of his contributions in the fields of electricity, radio and robotics.”

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Popular Chrome extension with over 105,000 users found secretly mining cryptocurrency

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Telegram is shutting down a channel that called for violent protests against Iran’s government

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Google vs Amazon: YouTube services no longer available on Fire TV

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Pressure builds to improve election cybersecurity

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Iran cuts off internet access in several cities as mass protests continue.

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Apple's $29 iPhone battery replacements are available starting today

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The U.S. needs to create civic social networks - Rep. Rick Crawford: “a new product (or adapt an existing one) that allows elected officials to engage the American people in a civic environment without paid ads and political spending.”

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Ad targeters are pulling data from your browser’s password manager

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Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power by Byung-Chul Han – “The new surveillance society that has arisen since 1984, argues Han, works differently yet is more elegantly totalitarian and oppressive than anything described by Orwell or Jeremy Bentham.”

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2017 Was a Big Year for Scrubbing Science from Government Websites. Here’s the List.

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Kidnappers in Ukraine have released an employee at a UK-registered cryptocurrency exchange after getting more than $1 million in bitcoins

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Beware of contracting a cryptocurrency-mining virus from Facebook Messenger

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Kodi media player arrives on the Xbox One

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How Classical Cryptography Will Survive Quantum Computers

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Facebook Says it is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the U.S. and Israeli Governments

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More than 250 Android Games Use Your Mic to Track What You’re Watching

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Facebook apologizes after report shows inconsistencies in removing hate speech

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Comcast Accused (Again) of Billing Fraud: "Comcast may have signed up more than half of all SPP subscribers without their consent," and in numerous instances charged customers for the SPP plan after telling them it was "free."

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New video by The King of Random on YouTube

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How Climate Change Deniers Rise to the Top in Google Searches: Groups that reject established climate science use the search engine’s advertising business, gaming the system to find a mass platform for false or misleading claims.

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Net neutrality bomber arrested over Kansas City swatting attack

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No access to the Internet? Detroit residents build it themselves

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Tyler Barriss: Man behind Wichita swatting incident arrested in Los Angeles

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Proposed state laws would deny contracts to net neutrality violators.

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A Public Internet Is Possible

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Germany paid people to use electricity over the holidays because its grid is so clean - Electricity prices dipped below zero on Christmas in Germany.

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Wikipedia picture of the day on December 30, 2017: A juvenile...

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Russian hacker says he left behind clues when he broke into the DNC

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Kansas Man Killed In ‘SWATting’ Attack; Attacker was same individual who called in fake net-neutrality bomb

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Comcast Jacks up Price of Standalone Broadband to $75

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Samsung doesn’t slow down phones that have older batteries

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Robocalls—and complaints about robocalls—are booming: 4.5 million complaints last year.