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Physicists Just Achieved The First-Ever Quantum Teleportation Between Computer Chips

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Trump's State Department reportedly launched a full-fledged investigation to find out which employee liked a Chelsea Clinton tweet

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The Decade We Learned There’s No Such Thing as Privacy Online - And a corrupt U.S. government seems incapable and unwilling to do anything about it.

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Wikipedia picture of the day on January 1, 2020: Red-billed...

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IRS Reforms Free File Program, Drops Agreement Not to Compete With TurboTax

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Google cafeteria workers unionized, saying they’re “overworked and underpaid”

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US Army bans soldiers from using TikTok over security worries - CNNPolitics

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New video by The King of Random on YouTube

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'What an insult': CES names Ivanka Trump as keynote speaker

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AT&T touted worker bonuses after $3 billion Trump tax cut. Now it’s outsourcing thousands of jobs

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Apple's Emergency SOS feature foils attempted sexual assault

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Anxiety Might Be Alleviated by Regulating Gut Bacteria

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Sonos gives a lame reason for bricking older devices in 'Recycle Mode' - The practice has irked buyers and redefined "programmed obsolescence."

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Elon Musk says SpaceX hopes to launch its revolutionary rocket system that could eventually put people on Mars within '2 to 3 months'

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Police Departments Are Using Swatting Registries To Help Protect Swatting Targets From Police Officers

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Biden to Coal Miners: Learn to Code

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Court backs Comcast, puts Maine’s à la carte cable law on hold

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Uber and Postmates File Suit to Block California Freelancer Law

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New industry develops around sucking carbon dioxide out of atmosphere

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Microsoft says North Korea-linked hackers stole sensitive information

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Nebraska Farm Bureau Eager For 'Right To Repair' Agreement In 2020: The Nebraska Farm Bureau hopes to reach a deal with equipment manufacturers on the right to repair farm equipment – and if that’s not done by this time next year, they’ll pursue legislation that would force the issue.

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Wikipedia picture of the day on December 31, 2019: An ice cave...

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How the Entertainment Industry Solved Piracy, Then Made It Popular Again - Streaming services are starting to look a lot like cable packages.

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California's groundbreaking privacy law takes effect in January. What does it do?

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Tesla’s First Made-in-China Model 3s Hit the Road

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Brazil Fines Facebook $1.6M for Improper Sharing of User Data

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Hunting the missing millions from collapsed cryptocurrency - A Russian computer programmer involved in the collapse of a big cryptocurrency exchange says he was tricked into handing over its entire assets to fraudsters posing as FSB agents, according to documents obtained by BBC Russian.

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Security camera maker Wyze may have exposed personal data for millions

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NIST Study Of 189 Facial Recognition Algorithms Finds Minorities Are Misidentified Almost 100 Times More Often Than White Men

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Activists Worldwide Face Off Against Face Recognition: 2019 Year in Review

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When Will We Stop Screwing Poor and Rural Americans on Broadband?

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Tesla delivers its first 'Made in China' cars

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Chinese scientists jailed over 'world's first gene-edited babies.'

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China decouples from US in space with 2020 'GPS' completion

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‘Facebook is the new cigarettes for our society,’ Marc Benioff says, calling for regulation

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Russia says its hypersonic missile is now in active service

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Wikipedia picture of the day on December 30, 2019: A Red-veined...

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Obama's 'favourite books of 2019' list includes a title that slammed his administration's incestuous relationship with Google

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Encrypting DNS: Year in Review 2019

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Courts Grapple with a Sea Change in Fourth Amendment Law After Carpenter v US: Year in Review 2019

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10 ways North Korea uses technology to keep its citizens in the dark about the outside world

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New video by The King of Random on YouTube

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Non-smokers and teens take up vaping: study blames ads

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Tidal forces carry the mathematical signature of gravitational waves

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New Zealand electrician paid £12,000 compensation after being fired for refusing to submit to face scan

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U.S. companies are forcing workers to train their own foreign replacements

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We've spent the decade letting our tech define us. It's out of control - Technology has grown from some devices and platforms we use to an entire environment in which we function

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Flash Forest aims to use drones to plant a billion trees by 2028

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Kenya installs the first solar plant that transforms Ocean water into drinking water

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The smartphone tracking industry has been rumbled. Now we must act - Shadowy firms collect detailed data on where we go and who we meet through our apps. Yet where is the protest that would fuel change?