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Comcast won’t give new speed boost to Internet users who don’t buy TV service

Bill Gates told Trump that being his science adviser is ‘not a good use of my time.’

IRS’ 60-Year-Old IT System Failed on Tax Day Due to New Hardware

Red Alert for Net Neutrality: Senate will officially discharge resolution to block FCC repeal on May 9, forcing imminent vote

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Facebook begins the rollout of its Reddit-like downvote button

Twitter Sold Data Access to Cambridge Analytica–Linked Researcher

The Russian Internet Is in Chaos Thanks to the Country’s Ban on Messaging App Telegram

SpaceX is rocketing towards being the third-largest private tech company in the US

China is monitoring employees' brain waves and emotions — and the technology boosted one company's profits by $315 million

Blue Origin successfully launched and landed its New Shepard rocket

Customer takes Bell to court and wins, as judge agrees telecom giant can't promise a price, then change it

Facebook rolls out its downvote button to more users

UK surveillance regime dealt another blow in court

iTunes is finally in the Microsoft Store

Container-Google: Google Container isolates your Google activity from the rest of your web activity in order to prevent Google from tracking you outside of the Google website via third party cookies.

Wikipedia picture of the day on April 30, 2018: Zhavoronki are...

Helen Sharman, first Briton in space, backs manned mission to Mars: ‘You need a vision of going somewhere, doing something that is hard, going further than humans have ever been before’

'The writing's on the wall': Streaming services like Netflix set to overtake cable TV | CBC News

Sprint, T-Mobile Said to Close In on $26.5 Billion Combination

GoPro exits drone market and cuts jobs after poor 2017 earnings

Foxconn will drain 7 million gallons of water per day from Lake Michigan to make LCD screens

France seizes France.com from man who’s had it since ‘94, so he sues

New video by The King of Random on YouTube

Telegram is suffering worst DDOS yet and a server cluster has overheated. Telegram is down for users across the world.

TSB Train Wreck: Massive Bank IT Failure Going into Fifth Day; Customers Locked Out of Accounts, Getting Into Other People’s Accounts, Getting Bogus Data

'Gene map for depression' sparks hopes of new generation of treatments - A 200-strong team of researchers from across the globe have mapped the genetic variants that increase the risk of depression

Electric buses are avoiding hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil per day - China is buying electric buses in bulk, and major cities are doing their part, too.

Apple’s working on a powerful, wireless headset for both AR, VR - The headset, which would straddle the two technologies and tap into Apple’s own chips, is slated for 2020. It’s the biggest sign of Apple’s interest in virtual reality.

Cars are Ruining Our Cities

Snapchat to test unskippable ads because money is nice

Small ISPs Like Sonic Join The Legal Battle To Preserve Net Neutrality

Simple dye improves contact lenses for red-green blindness

Trump administration plans to freeze Obama-era fuel standards

Facial recognition may be coming to a police body camera near you

Google Cofounder Sergey Brin Warns of AI's Dark Side

Microsoft attempts to spin its role in counterfeiting case

Reddit.com posts obfuscated data to its root domain.

Sweden opens new road that charges electric vehicles like real-life slot car

PoC Code Published for Triggering an Instant BSOD on All Recent Windows Versions

ISP Sued For Breaching User Privacy After Blocking Pirate Sites

Verizon: Yahoo Users Can't Sue us Over Privacy Breaches, Hacks

House Judiciary Committee hearing on social media called a 'hoax'

New video by The King of Random on YouTube

Intel’s 10nm Cannon Lake chips are delayed again

Foxconn Just Got Permission to Start Draining Lake Michigan to Make LCD Screens

Genealogy site didn’t know it was used to seek serial killer

VPN Subscriptions Doubled Following the FCC's Net Neutrality Repeal

Tesla shareholders will vote on booting Elon Musk as chairman.

NASA scraps a lunar surface mission — just as it’s supposed to focus on a Moon return