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Intel is auctioning off 8,500 patents as it exits 5G smartphone market

Germany and the Netherlands form a joint military network

SpaceX reports milestone for Starlink satellite links — and sparks a debate

New video by The King of Random on YouTube

Hans Zimmer designed the sound for BMW’s futuristic concept car

DOJ expands its Boeing 737 Max probe to the Dreamliner, report says

Sting Catches Another Ransomware Firm — Red Mosquito — Negotiating With “Hackers” — ProPublica

Croatian startups are bigger than you think

Social media strike proposed for July 4-5 by Wikipedia co-founder

Greed Is to Blame for the Radicalization of YouTube and Facebook | WIRED

San Francisco joins the fight to make Uber and Lyft drivers employees

The robots are definitely coming and will make the world a more unequal place: New studies show that the latest wave of automation will make the world’s poor poorer. But big tech will be even richer

Murder suspect identified by DNA database has now been convicted

Google Flags Hundreds of Pirate Sites for 'Abusive Experiences'

AI Simulates The Universe And Not Even Its Creators Know How It's So Accurate

Myspace Employees Used to Spy on Users

Huawei will be allowed to do business with U.S. companies again.

With a single wiretap, police collected 9.2 million text messages | TechCrunch

Former Equifax executive sentenced to prison for insider trading prior to data breach - Four months of jail time

One Year After Trump’s Foxconn Groundbreaking, There Is Almost Nothing To Show For It

A fake Joe Biden campaign site is being run secretly by a Trump campaign operative, a new report revealed on Saturday

New video by The King of Random on YouTube

How to use this $70 gadget to detect spy cameras in your Airbnb or hotel room

Apple to Shift Assembly of Mac Pro From US to China

At least 57 e-scooters and bikes found at the bottom of Portland river

Startup packs all 16GB of Wikipedia onto DNA strands to demonstrate new storage tech - Biological molecules will last a lot longer than the latest computer storage technology, Catalog believes.

SpaceX is in communication with all but three of 60 Starlink satellites one month after launch

YouTube deleted 130 rap videos at the request of police who are fighting street gangs responsible for thousands of stabbings

NASA Announces New Dragonfly Drone Mission to Explore Titan

U.S. may outlaw messaging encryption used by WhatsApp, iMessage and others: report.

Donald Trump confirms US companies can continue to sell to Huawei during G20 press conference

NASA is Going Back to Saturn’s Moon Titan, this Time With a Nuclear Battery-Powered Quadcopter

Nokia's CTO Slams Huawei After 'Potential Backdoors' Found In 55% Of Its Devices

Los Angeles seeks record setting solar power price under 2¢/kWh

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes to stand trial in 2020

Google is building a new private subsea cable between Portugal and South Africa

GrubHub is buying up thousands of restaurant web addresses. That means Mom and Pop can't own their slice of the internet

Boeing's 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers

Europe should ban AI for mass surveillance and social credit scoring, says advisory group

New video by The King of Random on YouTube

Italy stings Facebook with $1.1M fine for Cambridge Analytica data misuse

Iran seizes 1,000 bitcoin mining machines using subsidized power

NSA improperly collected US phone call data after saying problem was fixed

A Facebook contractor was reportedly fired for posting Bruce Springsteen lyrics on internal messaging boards to protest working conditions

A Second U.S. City Has Banned Facial Recognition: Somerville, which neighbors Cambridge, Massachusetts, just joined San Francisco in banning the use of facial recognition.

Firefox is reinventing its Android app to undo Chrome's monopoly

Trump White House Reportedly Debating Encryption Policy Behind Closed Doors

The Pentagon has a laser that identifies people by their heartbeat

Google and private research university sued for sharing medical data without patient consent

Again!? The NSA’s Phone Records Program Still Can’t Stay Within the Law