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No escape? Chinese VIP jail puts AI monitors in every cell ‘to make prison breaks impossible’

DEA never checked if its bulk surveillance data was legal

Who Is Lucy Flores, the Woman Accusing Joe Biden of Kissing Her?

Joe Biden Scrambles to Stem Crisis After Lucy Flores’s Allegation

Why Courtrooms Are Kryptonite for Alex Jones

On ‘S.N.L.,’ Trump, Mueller and Barr Interpret the Final Report Very Differently

Billie Eilish Is Not Your Typical 17-Year-Old Pop Star. Get Used to Her.

What Happens When Women Stop Leading Like Men

New York State Budget Deal Brings Congestion Pricing, Plastic Bag Ban and Mansion Tax

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Got a tech question or want to discuss tech? Weekly /r/Technology Tech Support / General Discussion Thread

‘Breaches Everywhere’: Flooding Bursts Midwest Levees, and Tough Questions Follow

HUD Sues Facebook Over Housing Discrimination and Says the Company’s Algorithms Have Made the Problem Worse — ProPublica

A $5,000 Bell bill? Parents share 'appalling' stories of runaway wireless charges | CBC News

Warning: EU’s Draconian Internet Laws Likely to Impact US

Magnetic Bearings Might Keep this Motor Spinning for Millennia

Senate re-introduces bill to help advanced nuclear technology

Russia Ordered a Killing That Made No Sense. Then the Assassin Started Talking.

A Leonardo Made a $450 Million Splash. Now There’s No Sign of It.

The Best Restaurant if You’re Over 50

Sarah Leamon: For the good of the planet, we all need a legal right to repair our damaged cellphones

Ignore the noise about a scary hidden backdoor in Intel processors: It's a fascinating debug port

Facebook Used the Philippines to Test Free Internet. Then a Dictator Was Elected.

Facebook axed its bird-size internet drones before they even flew

Can an Archaeological Dig Change the Future of Jerusalem?

Trump Turns U.S. Policy in Central America on Its Head

Any form of threatening, harassing, or violence / physical harm towards anyone will result in a ban

Facebook Chief Mark Zuckerberg Wants More Internet Regulation

College Student Is Found Dead After Getting Into a Car She Mistook for Her Uber, Police Say

Laptops to Stay in Bags as TSA Brings New Technology to Airports

‘We’re in the Last Hour’: Democracy Itself Is on Trial in Brexit, Britons Say

The Incredible Shrinking Trump Boom

Trump’s Order to Open Arctic Waters to Oil Drilling Was Unlawful, Federal Judge Finds

Mark Zuckerberg asks governments to help control internet content

Is Poland Spring Water Really From a Spring? ‘Not One Drop,’ Says a Lawsuit

Years of Mark Zuckerberg's old Facebook posts have vanished. The company says it 'mistakenly deleted' them.

AIs are being trained on racist data – and it’s starting to show

Bezos’s Security Consultant Accuses Saudis of Hacking the Amazon C.E.O.’s Phone

Keeping Up With the Kardashian Cash Flow

Sony to slash smartphone workforce 50% by 2020

Bezos Investigation Finds the Saudis Obtained His Private Data

YouTube Makes Up 37% of Mobile Web Traffic Worldwide

Joe Biden Accused of Touching and Kissing Nevada Democrat at 2014 Rally

Google should publicly address position on China, GOP lawmaker says

Ajit Pai wants to cap spending on broadband for poor people and rural areas

The Day the Dinosaurs Died - A young paleontologist may have discovered a record of the most significant event in the history of life on Earth

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

The Dangerous Flaws in Boeing’s Automated System

An Outbreak Spreads Fear: Of Measles, of Ultra-Orthodox Jews, of Anti-Semitism

New Australian laws could see social media execs jailed over terror images

What If Google And Facebook Admitted That All This Ad Targeting Really Doesn't Work That Well?

Company Ordered to Pay Woman $459K After Spamming Her With More Than 300 Robocalls

DEA Never Checked If Its Massive Surveillance Operations Are Legal, Watchdog Says

Fossil Site Reveals Day That Meteor Hit Earth and, Maybe, Wiped Out Dinosaurs

In Ethiopia Crash, Faulty Sensor on Boeing 737 Max Is Suspected

Years of Mark Zuckerberg's old Facebook posts have vanished. The company says it 'mistakenly deleted' them.

Some of Mark Zuckerberg's old Facebook posts have disappeared

How Alex Jones and Infowars Helped a Florida Man Stalk Sandy Hook Families

Theresa May’s Brexit Deal Is Rejected by U.K. Parliament

The Man Trying to Make Sense of Brexit Is Tired and Would Like to Stop Now

Trump Directs State Dept. to End Aid to 3 Central American Countries

After Trump Casts Blame for a Special Olympics Cut, Betsy DeVos Flashes Pique

Barr Says Mueller Report Will Be Redacted and Made Public by Mid-April

Is Theresa May the Worst Politician Ever?

In Blow to Trump, Judge Blocks Health Care Law ‘End Run’

Former Trump Family Driver Has Been in ICE Custody for 8 Months

I Broke Up With Her Because She’s White

Why Do Garfield Phones Keep Washing Up on This Beach?

Congress introduces bipartisan legislation to permanently end the NSA's mass surveillance of phone records

Initial findings put Boeing’s software at center of Ethiopian 737 crash

The Lost History of One of the World’s Strangest Science Experiments

Paywalls block scientific progress. Research should be open to everyone

Congress introduces bipartisan legislation to permanently end the NSA’s mass surveillance of phone records

Bill Gates casts an enthusiastic vote for bill to accelerate nuclear energy research

Microsoft donates 500 patents to startups

Boston Dynamics’ latest robot is a mechanical ostrich that loads pallets

Russian hi-tech firm discloses details of space junk recycling system

Europe is splitting the internet into three

Lyft valued at $24.3 billion in first ride-hailing IPO

Trump Owns the Economy Now, for Better or Worse

Office Depot and Support.com to pay $35 million for falsely claiming scan detected signs of malware on consumers’ computers

Who’ll Get Rich When Lyft, Uber and Other ‘Unicorns’ Go Public

Pete Buttigieg (It’s ‘Boot-Edge-Edge’) Is Making Waves in the 2020 Race

Huawei Security ‘Defects’ Are Found by British Authorities

The Plague Killing Frogs Everywhere Is Far Worse Than Scientists Thought

The Implicit Punishment of Daring to Go to College When Poor

Plastic Bags to Be Banned in New York State

New York Sues Sackler Family Members and Drug Distributors

Be Thankful for Mueller’s Timing

The Sometimes Catastrophic, but Mostly Just Embarrassing Consequences of Screen Sharing at Work

Why Is Georgia Buying Insecure Voting Machines? It Doesn't Matter, They Are

Supreme Court Refuses to Block Ban on Bump Stocks

Robocallers haven’t paid $208 million in fines—FCC lacks authority to collect - "The Federal Communications Commission has issued $208.4 million in fines against robocallers since 2015, but the commission has collected only $6,790 of that amount."

Office Depot rigged PC malware scans to sell unneeded $300 tech support

At 71, She’s Never Felt Pain or Anxiety. Now Scientists Know Why.

Brunei to Punish Adultery and Gay Sex With Death by Stoning