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Amazon Flex drivers are using bots to cheat their way to getting more work

Elon Musk tweets out #DeleteFacebook, adding simply, “it’s lame.”

FBI is investigating more than 1,000 cases of Chinese theft of US technology

Wikipedia picture of the day on February 10, 2020: Cuban black...

What Happens When QAnon Seeps From the Web to the Offline World

The dead speak! Scientists re-create voice of 3000-year-old mummy

Windows 10 Warning: Anger At Microsoft Rises With Serious New Failure

Why is the healthcare industry still so bad at cybersecurity?

Microsoft using Windows 10 Start Menu to suggest Firefox users switch to Edge

The Age of Decadence

YouTube's classic desktop interface will be gone for good next month

Facebook's official Twitter and Instagram accounts were hacked

A Device That 'Prints' New Skin Right Onto Burns Just Passed Another Animal Trial

US House panel will discuss self-driving cars next week - Witnesses include officials from automotive, tech and transportation trade groups.

Tesla Remotely Removes Autopilot Features From Customer's Used Tesla Without Any Notice

Motorola Razr's hinge 'broke' after 27,000 folds in durability test 'CNET' stopped the test way before it reached 100,000 folds.

Dangerous Domain Corp.com Goes Up for Sale

Research presented at the ACM FAT 2020 conference in Barcelona today supports the notion that YouTube's platform is playing a role in radicalizing users via exposure to far-right ideologies

How to Get Your Yahoo Breach Settlement Money

The Navy Is Arming Nuclear Subs With Lasers. No One Knows Why.

Welcome to the era of supercharged lithium-ion batteries - Batteries with silicon anodes promise 20% longer life on a single charge.

The 2020 Election Will Be a War of Disinformation

Bill Gates becomes first to buy a £500m hydrogen-powered super yacht

Wikipedia picture of the day on February 9, 2020: Interior view...

Wikipedia Has a Civility Issue That Creates a Toxic Editing Environment

Tesla remotely disables Autopilot on used Model S after it was sold Tesla says the owner can’t use features it says ‘they did not pay for’

Since The National Archives Can't Keep Up With Incoming Records, Agencies Have Been Given Permission To Rewrite Their Own Histories

New video by The King of Random on YouTube

Apple fined for slowing down old iPhones

Apple fined for slowing down old iPhones

Attorney General William Barr on Thursday suggested that the United States consider taking an ownership stake in Finland’s Nokia and Sweden’s Ericsson to counter China’s bid to dominate the burgeoning 5G wireless market

The Government Uses ‘Near Perfect Surveillance’ Data on Americans - The New York Times

NASA brings Voyager 2 fully back online, 11.5 billion miles from Earth

Windows 7 bug prevents users from shutting down or rebooting computers

A World Without Privacy Will Revive the Masquerade: As the growing scale of facial recognition shows, more data can always be extracted.

Facebook's official Twitter and Instagram accounts were hacked

FCC data fails to count 21 million people without broadband, study finds: FCC says 21M Americans lack broadband, but a study found it's actually over 42M

Wikipedia picture of the day on February 8, 2020: Dome of the...

Comcast “not welcome” here: Customers protest sale of tiny cable company

World's largest offshore wind turbine clocks new 24-hour generation record

U.S. Supreme Court declines net neutrality appeal

Boeing's botched Starliner test flirted with 'catastrophic' failure, NASA finds

French fine Apple $27 million for battery patch that could slow down old iPhones

Tesla remotely disables Autopilot on used Model S after it was sold - Tesla says the owner can’t use features it says ‘they did not pay for’

Windows 10 Warning: Anger At Microsoft Rises With Serious New Failure

New 737 MAX software flaw found during tests, Boeing sticks to return timeline

Netflix will let you stop those annoying auto previews

Satellite images show how coronavirus brought Wuhan to a standstill

Federal Agencies Use Cellphone Location Data for Immigration Enforcement

Apple’s Independent Repair Program Is Invasive to Shops and Their Customers, Contract Shows