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‘Robots’ Are Not 'Coming for Your Job'—Management Is

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Russian military moves closer to replacing Windows with Astra Linux

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Facebook reportedly thinks there's no 'expectation of privacy' on social media. The social network wants to dismiss a lawsuit stemming from the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

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The Supreme Court Just Made It Easier for Police to Arrest You for Filming Them

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Apple Will Likely End iTunes, to the Relief of Everyone

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Google Struggles to Justify Why It's Restricting Ad Blockers in Chrome - Google says the changes will improve performance and security. Ad block developers and consumer advocates say Google is simply protecting its ad dominance.

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Wikipedia picture of the day on June 1, 2019: Petrol is sold by...

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North Face apologizes after openly gloating about gaming Wikipedia for free advertising

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Facebook’s shareholder meeting was a sad display of impotent groveling, and it’s the future in store for many other investors

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New video by The King of Random on YouTube

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UK in two-week coal-free record: The UK has not used coal to generate electricity for two weeks - the longest period since the 1880s.

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Russia Deployed Its Trolls to Cover Up the Murder of 298 People on MH17

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Huawei reportedly orders employees to cancel US meetings. Americans working in its China headquarters were sent home, the Financial Times reported.

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The Collapsing Crime Rates of the ’90s Might Have Been Driven by Cellphones

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AT&T Sues California to Prevent Oversight Over IP Based 911 Calls Using State Law AT&T Supported and Wants Renewed

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Facebook will never strip away Mark Zuckerberg’s power - When it comes to Facebook shareholders, Zuckerberg’s vote is the only one that matters.

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Sorry, FCC—killing net neutrality probably didn’t expand internet access: FCC chairman Ajit Pai had claimed that rosy broadband numbers showed his deregulation approach was working.

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A Delaware judge is ordering Facebook to turn over internal records regarding data privacy and access to user data

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A Glass Battery That Keeps Getting Better? | A prototype solid-state battery based on lithium and glass faces criticism over claims that its capacity increases over time

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BBC Goes to Conduct Its First Broadcast Over 5G, Immediately Hits Data Cap

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Disney, WarnerMedia, Netflix all threaten to leave Georgia if abortion ban becomes law

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Facebook lawyer says you don’t actually have any privacy on the site

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Maine lawmakers pass bill to prevent ISPs from selling browsing data without consent

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Democrats criticize FCC broadband report: Republicans say the digital divide is narrowing. Democrats say that's news to the 21 million Americans who still don't have broadband.

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Google Just Gave 2 Billion Chrome Users A Reason To Switch To Firefox

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New video by The King of Random on YouTube

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New York tenants fight as landlords embrace facial recognition cameras

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Encrypted messages are under attack: The German Ministry of the Interior wants to force WhatsApp, Threema and Apple to decrypt encrypted messages. But a backdoor for the "good guys" only is impossible.

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Atomically thin material could cut need for transistors in half - It can do AND or OR logic in a single transistor, switch states using light.

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Forget Mueller: Our pants are still down on election security, and Facebook can't save us

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Japan bombed an asteroid and now it's preparing to collect the debris

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Google Maps adds ability to see speed limits and speed traps in 40+ countries

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Google still plans to kill Chrome's existing adblock APIs

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IBM Sells Face Recognition Surveillance to a Dictatorship

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IEEE bans Huawei Scientists reviewing papers

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Mark Zuckerberg May Face Contempt Charge After Ignoring Subpoena

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Chevron executive is secretly pushing anti-electric car effort in Arizona

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DIY Facial Recognition for Porn Is a Dystopian Disaster - Someone is making dubious claims to have built a program for detecting faces in porn and cross-referencing against social media, with 100,000 identified so far.

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Government Prosecutor Caught Sending Emails With Tracking Software To Reporters And Defense Attorneys

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'We're Not Being Paranoid': U.S. Warns Of Spy Dangers Of Chinese-Made Drones

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Renewable Energy Costs Take Another Tumble, Making Fossil Fuels Look More Expensive Than Ever

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US Department of Energy is now referring to fossil fuels as “Freedom Gas” on its path to 'energy dominance' with bizarre re-branding

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This graph shows that time spent on Facebook is flatlining, with no growth in sight

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A wave of malware add-ons hit the Mozilla Firefox Extensions Store

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Apple announces its first new iPod in four years

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How to set your Google account to delete itself after you die

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'A white-collar sweatshop': Google Assistant contractors allege wage theft - Interpreting a spoken request isn’t magic, rather it has taken a team of underpaid, subcontracted linguists to make the technology possible

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Amazon removes books promoting dangerous bleach ‘cures’ for autism and other conditions

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Huawei files new legal action as it tries for a swift end to its lawsuit against the US government

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Jeff Bezos is one of the few top US billionaires who haven't signed the Giving Pledge. Here's how much the Amazon CEO has given to charity.