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Fugitive on run for 17 years found living in cave by a drone - Chinese police have arrested a fugitive who'd been on the run for 17 years, after they used drones to spot his cave hideout.

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Inside the new Uber: Weak coffee, vanishing perks and fast-deflating morale

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Artificial blood developed for patients of any blood type

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Facebook Touts Bans While Taking Hate Groups’ Cash

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Watch Steve Jobs Assure Americans in 1981 That Computers Wouldn't Be a Privacy Nightmare

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Wikipedia picture of the day on October 1, 2019: The...

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Stealthy no more? A German radar vendor says it tracked the F-35 jet in 2018 — from a pony farm

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Microsoft Just Hid The ‘Use Offline Account’ Option For Installing Windows 10, Here’s Where To Find It

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Massive Study Proves Once And For All That No, Net Neutrality Did Not Hurt Broadband Investment

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Researchers trying to prevent a repeat of 2016's election misinformation in 2020 are struggling thanks to a lack of data from Facebook

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Google faces scrutiny from Congress, DOJ over plans to encrypt DNS - Officials are concerned it might give Google an unfair advantage.

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Second SIM card attack can send texts and phone location data

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China’s tech ambition is ‘unstoppable’ — with or without the trade war, analyst says

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Thousands of ships fitted with ‘cheat devices’ to divert poisonous pollution into sea

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Employers Used Facebook to Keep Women and Older Workers From Seeing Job Ads

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On Twitch, women who stream say their biggest obstacle is harassment

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Switch Lite added to class action lawsuit over controller drift

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Start a New Union For Tech Workers. Please.

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Autoblow AI is a sex toy that promises ‘surprise:' The oral sex toy has 10 usage patterns determined by a deep learning system.

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Facebook will not fact-check politicians

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Ahead of 2020, Facebook Falls Short on Plan to Share Data on Disinformation

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Wikipedia picture of the day on September 30, 2019: Vakil Bath,...

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New video by The King of Random on YouTube

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Elon Musk aims to put SpaceX’s Starship in orbit in six months: “This is going to sound totally nuts”

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Amazon may soon be able to track your phone’s location even if you don’t use any of its products or services

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Australia Is Using New Technology to Catch Drivers on Phones

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I study vaccine misinformation. Big tech must do more to fight it. Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest have made inroads in preventing their platforms from being overrun with disinformation. But more change is still needed.

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NASA wants to send nuclear rockets to the Moon and Mars - Nuclear propulsion, first floated in the ’60s, is hot again.

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The Satellites Were Never Supposed to Launch - Two years after illegally launching tiny satellites into orbit, a start-up is trying to convince regulators it’s going to play by the rules.

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Only 36% of US companies consider digital skills a priority investment

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Plan for massive facial recognition database sparks privacy concerns [Australia] - Identity fraud is justification for collecting photos from drivers’ licences and passports but critics say plan too invasive

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Kickstarter To Workers and Project Creators: Drop Dead

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The Impossible burger has 1 major flaw to overcome: It's nearly triple the price of normal ground beef

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Feds say Boeing 737 needs to be better designed for humans

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MyPayrollHR CEO Arrested, Admits to $70M Fraud

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Wikipedia picture of the day on September 29, 2019: Zecca,...

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Hackers are increasingly targeting healthcare, with 176.4 million patient medical records exposed over the last 8 years, per a new study. These records sell for $300-$400 on the dark web, making them hundreds of times more valuable than credit card info.

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To Invent a Quantum Internet - The physicist and computer scientist Stephanie Wehner is planning and designing the next internet—a quantum one

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Piracy will Surge if More Legal Streaming Services Launch, Research Shows

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New video by The King of Random on YouTube

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How 'organized climate change denial' shapes public opinion on global warming

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China unveils 500 megapixel camera that can identify every face in a crowd of tens of thousands

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TikTok's local moderation guidelines ban pro-LGBT content - Chinese-owned social media app bans such content even in countries where homosexuality has never been illegal

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This green cement company says its product can cut carbon dioxide emissions by up to 70%

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Unpatchable bug in millions of iOS devices exploited, developer claims

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Tesla's $7 billion gigafactory in China to commence operations at the end of this year

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Baltimore IT department uses ‘mind-boggling,' outdated data storage method, audit finds

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Nonprofit fights TV networks in court to keep free TV service alive - Locast says ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC limit reach of broadcasts to boost profits.

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Tesla violated labor laws by blocking union organizing, judge rules

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Facebook confirms employee death was suicide after protest outside its headquarters