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The T-Mobile and Sprint Merger Is Blatantly Anticompetitive

1 in 5 companies say China stole their IP within the last year

You’re probably not going to get your $125 from the Equifax settlement

This Is the Beginning of the End of the Beef Industry - Alt meat isn't going to stay alt for long, and cattle are looking more and more like stranded assets

Fourth U.S. City Bans Facial Recognition, Citing Threats to Free Speech and Civil Rights

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Crab Nebula blasts Earth with highest-energy photons ever recorded

We Don't Mine Enough Rare Earth Metals to Replace Fossil Fuels With Renewable Energy

FTC Confirms: No seriously, you won’t be getting $125 from Equifax.

'Five Eyes' nations discuss backdoor access to WhatsApp

AT&T kills DirecTV Now brand name as TV subscribers leave in droves

Brain-computer interfaces are developing faster than the policy debate around them. It’s time to talk about what’s possible — and what shouldn’t be

California farmers are planting solar panels as water supplies dry up

There’s a $5,600 Electric Makeover for Your Old Diesel Car: French startup Transition-One plans to bring retrofitting to the mass market

Everything Cops Say About Amazon's Ring Is Scripted or Approved by Ring

Twitter suspends a conspiracy-filled account after Trump retweets it

Congress is running out of time to secure the 2020 elections - And Mitch McConnell is standing in the way

Net neutrality activists demand AT&T-owned CNN ask 2020 candidates where they stand on an open Internet

It's 2019, and one third of businesses still have active Windows XP deployments

DoorDash Tip-Skimming Scheme Prompts Clash Action Lawsuit Seeking All Those Tips That Didn't Go to Drivers

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Feds: former cloud worker hacks into Capital One and takes data for 106 million people

New video by The King of Random on YouTube

Google reportedly once gave about 100 engineers from Huawei their own lab at the Googleplex HQ, hinting at deeper ties than we knew

Bernie Sanders pledges to nominate FCC commissioners who will reinstate net neutrality, if elected President

US files lawsuit against Bitcoin exchange that helped launder ransomware profits

Cambridge Analytica did work for Leave. EU, emails show.

Amazon turned a man down for a job but continued to use his photograph as an advertisement for the top talent that it's looking for

Capital One found out about its 106-million-customer data breach only because a member of the public emailed it a tip

New bill would ban autoplay videos and endless scrolling - Taking aim at ‘features that are designed to be addictive’

Capital One’s breach was inevitable, because we did nothing after Equifax

'Dehumanising, impenetrable, frustrating': the grim reality of job hunting in the age of AI

Sites could be liable for helping Facebook secretly track your web browsing, says EU court

NASA seeks to break the “tyranny of launch” with in-space manufacturing

Massive data breach hits Capital One affecting more than 100 million customers

Apple contractors 'regularly hear confidential details' on Siri recordings

Soon you’ll be able to watch PBS on YouTube

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Airbnb host fined £100,000 for letting council flat to Tourists in London

Facebook is facing two antitrust probes

China imprisons award-winning cyber-dissident

Experts Say the DOJ Justification for T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Approval Is a Joke - The DOJ’s proposed plan to protect competition will do nothing of the sort, industry watchers say.

Drones will fly for days with new photovoltaic engine

The Internet Is a Cesspool of Racist Pseudoscience

Coral bleaching: New AI project expects to map all the word’s reefs by end of next year - The effort is inspired by late philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen

China's Alibaba is making a 16-core, 2.5 GHz RISC-V processor

EPIC privacy group sues FTC for letting Facebook off easy | The group wants the FTC to alter the $5 billion settlement terms

US teenager wins $3m as Fortnite world champion

No More Ransom project has prevented ransomware profits of at least $108 million

Facebook Cancels Russia-Linked Fake Accounts Focusing on Ukraine