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No escape? Chinese VIP jail puts AI monitors in every cell ‘to make prison breaks impossible’

Scotland’s Orkney islands produce more clean energy than their inhabitants can use. Their next step? Hydrogen. Here’s why that matters – and what the rest of the world could learn.

Magnetic Bearings Might Keep this Motor Spinning for Millennia

Wikipedia picture of the day on April 1, 2019: Male Abyssinian...

HUD Sues Facebook Over Housing Discrimination and Says the Company’s Algorithms Have Made the Problem Worse — ProPublica

Popup enlarges at the last second so users click on ads instead of 'Close' button

Warning: EU’s Draconian Internet Laws Likely to Impact US

New video by The King of Random on YouTube

A $5,000 Bell bill? Parents share 'appalling' stories of runaway wireless charges | CBC News

Senate re-introduces bill to help advanced nuclear technology

Sarah Leamon: For the good of the planet, we all need a legal right to repair our damaged cellphones

Facebook Used the Philippines to Test Free Internet. Then a Dictator Was Elected.

YouTube Makes Up 37% of Mobile Web Traffic Worldwide

Sony to slash smartphone workforce 50% by 2020

Australia plans tough laws for social media sites that don't take down violent content - Jail terms and hefty fines will be proposed, which could be the first legislation of its kind in the world

Facebook Chief Mark Zuckerberg Wants More Internet Regulation

Mark Zuckerberg asks governments to help control internet content

Laptops to Stay in Bags as TSA Brings New Technology to Airports

Years of Mark Zuckerberg's old Facebook posts have vanished. The company says it 'mistakenly deleted' them.

Bezos’s Security Consultant Accuses Saudis of Hacking the Amazon C.E.O.’s Phone

Bezos Investigation Finds the Saudis Obtained His Private Data

The Day the Dinosaurs Died - A young paleontologist may have discovered a record of the most significant event in the history of life on Earth

Ajit Pai wants to cap spending on broadband for poor people and rural areas

US says Chinese ownership of gay dating app Grindr is a national security risk

New video by The King of Random on YouTube

New Australian laws could see social media execs jailed over terror images

Huawei phones a ‘threat to national security’

Valve just surprise revealed its own VR headset called the Valve Index

Koch group launches ads against Warren plan to break up tech giants

What If Google And Facebook Admitted That All This Ad Targeting Really Doesn't Work That Well?

Apple Officially Cancels AirPower

DEA Never Checked If Its Massive Surveillance Operations Are Legal, Watchdog Says

Company Ordered to Pay Woman $459K After Spamming Her With More Than 300 Robocalls

Years of Mark Zuckerberg's old Facebook posts have vanished. The company says it 'mistakenly deleted' them.

Some of Mark Zuckerberg's old Facebook posts have disappeared

Serial swatter who led to Kansas man’s death sentenced to 20 years in prison

New video by The King of Random on YouTube

Congress introduces bipartisan legislation to permanently end the NSA's mass surveillance of phone records

Initial findings put Boeing’s software at center of Ethiopian 737 crash

Congress introduces bipartisan legislation to permanently end the NSA’s mass surveillance of phone records

Paywalls block scientific progress. Research should be open to everyone

Microsoft donates 500 patents to startups

Bill Gates casts an enthusiastic vote for bill to accelerate nuclear energy research

Boston Dynamics’ latest robot is a mechanical ostrich that loads pallets

Russia Orders Major VPN Providers to Block ‘Banned’ Sites

Europe is splitting the internet into three

Office Depot and Support.com to pay $35 million for falsely claiming scan detected signs of malware on consumers’ computers

Facebook Engages in Housing Discrimination via Its Ad Practices, U.S. Says

Lyft valued at $24.3 billion in first ride-hailing IPO

The Mounting Federal Investigations Into Facebook