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Massachusetts Town Loses Its Entire Police Force as All 4 Members Quit

San Francisco Officials to Tech Workers: Buy Your Lunch

Eight AT&T Buildings and Ten Years of Litigation: Shining a Light on NSA Surveillance

Seattle judge blocks release of 3D Printed gun files

As China’s Woes Mount, Xi Jinping Faces Rare Rebuke at Home

Aeromexico Plane Crashes in Mexico, but Officials Say Everyone Survived

They Stole a Shark in a Baby Stroller and Briefly Got Away With It

After Doctors Cut Their Opioids, Patients Turn to a Risky Treatment for Back Pain

Trump’s Supreme Betrayal

Inside the World of Racist Science Fiction

5 Cheap(ish) Things Every Home Should Have

Alex Jones, Pursued Over Infowars Falsehoods, Faces a Legal Crossroads

Judge Blocks Attempt to Post Blueprints for 3-D Guns

Transparency Win: Federal Circuit Makes Briefs Immediately Available to the Public

NASA just quashed Elon Musk's plans to make Mars habitable for humans

Facebook Has Identified Ongoing Political Influence Campaign

A Migrant Boy Rejoins His Mother, but He’s Not the Same

Herman Shine, One of the Few to Escape Auschwitz, Dies at 95

Ex-SolarCity employees: we were fired after reporting millions in fake sales

Michigan governor announces new high school curriculum focused on automotive cybersecurity

Amazon dark patterns

An Amazon staffer is posting YouTube videos of herself living in a warehouse parking lot after an accident at work.

Some Amazon Reviews Are Too Good To Be Believed. They're Paid For

Ex-SolarCity employees: we were fired after reporting millions in fake sales

Why New York Kicked the Country's Second-Biggest Cable Company Out of the State: 'New York State regulators say they are fed up by Charter Spectrum Cable's empty promises, poor service, and misleading claims.'

Steve Jobs' former ad man says Tim Cook is getting 'vanilla' advice, and it's making Apple bland

All-electric Porsche Taycan will boast 600 HP and 500 km (310 miles) of battery range - Porsche has also partnered with Daimler, VW, Ford and BMW on the Ionity Charging Network, which will see 350 kWh charge points installed every 100-150 km (62-93 Miles) along European roadways

How Robot Hands Are Evolving to Do What Ours Can

Firefox is getting a new logo, and Mozilla wants to hear what users think

Logitech is acquiring Blue Microphones for $117 million in cash

Build Border Wall or Government Will Be Shut Down, Trump Says

T-Mobile signs $3.5 billion deal with Nokia for 5G technology

U.K. Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt Calls His Chinese Wife Japanese in Beijing

A $100 Billion Train: The Future of California or a Boondoggle?

Alex Trebek, Saying He May Leave ‘Jeopardy!’ in 2020, Suggests 2 Replacements

How to Talk to a Racist

New York state commission moves to kick Spectrum out over consumer complaints

Uber’s self-driving trucks division is dead

Trump Administration Mulls a Unilateral Tax Cut for the Rich

Fake news 'crowding out' real news

The Maps That Show That City vs. Country Is Not Our Political Fault Line

11 and Married: Malaysia Spars Over an Age-Old Practice

The $120-billion reason we can’t expect Facebook to police itself - Wall Street just showed us why it’s ridiculous to expect Facebook and Twitter to self-regulate.

99 Days to Go, and the Midterm Elections Battleground Is Not What Was Expected

What happens when you let computers optimize floorplans

G.O.P. Faces Another Midterm Threat as Trump Plays the Shutdown Card

Michael Cohen Takes a Bullet

Cord Cutting Accelerates Faster Than Expected, As Cable Still Refuses To Compete On Price

John Oliver Calls Facebook 'History's Most Profitable Data-Harvesting Machine'

Accidents at Amazon: workers left to suffer after warehouse injuries - Guardian investigation reveals numerous cases of Amazon workers being treated in ways that leave them homeless, unable to work or bereft of income after workplace accidents

America spends over $20bn per year on fossil fuel subsidies. Abolish them - While we need to leave fossil fuels in the ground, America is giving the fossil fuel industry billions to extract more

‘Lopping,’ ‘Tips’ and the ‘Z-List’: Bias Lawsuit Explores Harvard’s Admissions Secrets

Facebook requires photo identification.

Comcast could lose as many as 430,000 video subscribers in 2018, analyst says

Polar Bear Shot and Killed After Attacking Cruise Ship Guard

A withering verdict: MPs report on Zuckerberg, Russia and Cambridge Analytica. Select committee criticises Facebook response and urges tighter internet regulation

How to Make Sure You're Getting the Internet Speeds You're Paying For

Tesla will have a KITT-like artificial intelligence in its vehicles, says Elon Musk

TSA is tracking regular travelers like terrorists in secret surveillance program

An Old Scam With a New Twist

Paul Manafort’s Trial Starts Tuesday. Here Are the Charges and the Stakes.

Mother of Dead Woman Says Medics Told Her She Could Not Afford Ambulance

New Hampshire, 94 Percent White, Asks: How Do You Diversify a Whole State?

How Trump Lost Re-election in 2020

What We Have Now Is Not Advertising

Tesla sold more small to midsize luxury vehicles in June than Mercedes, BMW, and Audi... combined.

Sweden to reach its 2030 renewable energy target this year

New York Times Publisher and Trump Clash Over President’s Threats Against Journalism

U.S. confirms it provides armed drones to Niger.

‪Autodesk discontinues Mac support of ‬ ‪Alias and VRED due to Apple’s OpenGL deprecation in macOS Mojave

From Dow’s ‘Dioxin Lawyer’ to Trump’s Choice to Run Superfund

TSA is tracking regular travelers like terrorists in secret surveillance program, The teams document whether passengers fidget, use a computer, have a “jump” in their Adam’s apple or a “cold penetrating stare,” among other behaviors.

After a Year, Equifax Remains Largely Unfazed by Historic Breach -- Despite a breach that exposed the personal data of more than 147 million Americans, the company has yet to face a government-imposed financial punishment

Verizon’s new ‘Safe Wi-Fi’ is a VPN that blocks ad tracking for $3.99 a month

Big tech warns of 'Japan's millennium bug' ahead of Akihito's abdication | Technology

The Mystery of End-of-Life Rallies

Here’s why Facebook suspended Alex Jones but not Infowars

Post-GDPR: What’s left to do?

For Facebook and Twitter, reality is hitting hard: After years of unchecked harassment and abuse, social media's reckoning has arrived

After Telecom Regulator's Aadhaar Challenge, His Personal Details Leaked

From a Space Station in Argentina, China Expands Its Reach in Latin America

A Rough Rehearsal, a Suicide and a Broadway Show in Turmoil

The Decline of the Civil War Re-enactor

News Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of the Week’s Headlines

The Rules for Beating Donald Trump

Mike Pence, Holy Terror

‘What Does a Trucker Look Like?’ It’s Changing, Amid a Big Shortage

Ted Cruz Defends Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones, Asks Who Made Facebook the 'Arbiter of Political Speech'

U.S. judge denies gun control groups' attempt to block 3-D gun blueprints

An 11-Year-Old Girl Is Gang Raped in India and Blamed for It, Too

Still Standing, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump Step Back in the Spotlight

Russian Hackers Appear to Shift Focus to U.S. Power Grid

VLC bans Huawei phones from downloading its app after users started leaving bad reviews. Company blames Huawei devices’ “ridiculous” policy of killing background apps

Alaskans voice frustration over congressman’s net neutrality reversal

Cardinal Theodore McCarrick Resigns Amid Sexual Abuse Scandal

Network Of Tesla Powerwall Batteries Saves Green Mountain Power $500,000 During Heat Wave

Democracy at risk due to fake news and data misuse, MPs conclude - Parliamentary inquiry to demand urgent action to combat ‘relentless targeting of hyper-partisan views’

Senators call on FTC to investigate smart TVs tracking viewers' data

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg loses more than $15 billion in wealth in a single day

Idaho prisoners hacked tablets and gave themselves $225,000 in credit

How to Have Sex in a Canoe

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The Tour de France Loves Its ‘Podium Girls’

Where American Renewal Begins