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Physicists Just Achieved The First-Ever Quantum Teleportation Between Computer Chips

Trump's State Department reportedly launched a full-fledged investigation to find out which employee liked a Chelsea Clinton tweet

The Decade We Learned There’s No Such Thing as Privacy Online - And a corrupt U.S. government seems incapable and unwilling to do anything about it.

Wikipedia picture of the day on January 1, 2020: Red-billed...

IRS Reforms Free File Program, Drops Agreement Not to Compete With TurboTax

Google cafeteria workers unionized, saying they’re “overworked and underpaid”

US Army bans soldiers from using TikTok over security worries - CNNPolitics

New video by The King of Random on YouTube

'What an insult': CES names Ivanka Trump as keynote speaker

AT&T touted worker bonuses after $3 billion Trump tax cut. Now it’s outsourcing thousands of jobs

Apple's Emergency SOS feature foils attempted sexual assault

Anxiety Might Be Alleviated by Regulating Gut Bacteria

Sonos gives a lame reason for bricking older devices in 'Recycle Mode' - The practice has irked buyers and redefined "programmed obsolescence."

Elon Musk says SpaceX hopes to launch its revolutionary rocket system that could eventually put people on Mars within '2 to 3 months'

Police Departments Are Using Swatting Registries To Help Protect Swatting Targets From Police Officers

Biden to Coal Miners: Learn to Code

Court backs Comcast, puts Maine’s à la carte cable law on hold

Uber and Postmates File Suit to Block California Freelancer Law

New industry develops around sucking carbon dioxide out of atmosphere

Microsoft says North Korea-linked hackers stole sensitive information

Nebraska Farm Bureau Eager For 'Right To Repair' Agreement In 2020: The Nebraska Farm Bureau hopes to reach a deal with equipment manufacturers on the right to repair farm equipment – and if that’s not done by this time next year, they’ll pursue legislation that would force the issue.

Wikipedia picture of the day on December 31, 2019: An ice cave...

How the Entertainment Industry Solved Piracy, Then Made It Popular Again - Streaming services are starting to look a lot like cable packages.

California's groundbreaking privacy law takes effect in January. What does it do?

Tesla’s First Made-in-China Model 3s Hit the Road

Brazil Fines Facebook $1.6M for Improper Sharing of User Data

Hunting the missing millions from collapsed cryptocurrency - A Russian computer programmer involved in the collapse of a big cryptocurrency exchange says he was tricked into handing over its entire assets to fraudsters posing as FSB agents, according to documents obtained by BBC Russian.

Security camera maker Wyze may have exposed personal data for millions

NIST Study Of 189 Facial Recognition Algorithms Finds Minorities Are Misidentified Almost 100 Times More Often Than White Men

Activists Worldwide Face Off Against Face Recognition: 2019 Year in Review

When Will We Stop Screwing Poor and Rural Americans on Broadband?

Tesla delivers its first 'Made in China' cars

Chinese scientists jailed over 'world's first gene-edited babies.'

China decouples from US in space with 2020 'GPS' completion

‘Facebook is the new cigarettes for our society,’ Marc Benioff says, calling for regulation

Russia says its hypersonic missile is now in active service

Wikipedia picture of the day on December 30, 2019: A Red-veined...

Obama's 'favourite books of 2019' list includes a title that slammed his administration's incestuous relationship with Google

Encrypting DNS: Year in Review 2019

Courts Grapple with a Sea Change in Fourth Amendment Law After Carpenter v US: Year in Review 2019

10 ways North Korea uses technology to keep its citizens in the dark about the outside world

New video by The King of Random on YouTube

Non-smokers and teens take up vaping: study blames ads

Tidal forces carry the mathematical signature of gravitational waves

New Zealand electrician paid £12,000 compensation after being fired for refusing to submit to face scan

U.S. companies are forcing workers to train their own foreign replacements

We've spent the decade letting our tech define us. It's out of control - Technology has grown from some devices and platforms we use to an entire environment in which we function

Flash Forest aims to use drones to plant a billion trees by 2028

Kenya installs the first solar plant that transforms Ocean water into drinking water

The smartphone tracking industry has been rumbled. Now we must act - Shadowy firms collect detailed data on where we go and who we meet through our apps. Yet where is the protest that would fuel change?